Charles Haynes wrote, [on 4/11/2008 8:33 PM]:
Neither my experience, nor my wife's experience in US public schools was particularly positive. Being bright, interested, inquisitive, and energetic is often discouraged, sometimes forcefully, by your "peers."
For those who want to be profoundly depressed about the state of US public schools, and specifically with their treatment of geeks, and pretty much anybody else who's "different":
http://features.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/10/23/1521250&tid=146 http://features.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/10/23/1625249&tid=146 http://features.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/10/23/1657233&tid=146 http://features.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/10/23/179259&tid=146 http://features.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/10/23/1738214&tid=146 http://features.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/10/23/1751220&tid=146 The article that started this particular tsunami: http://slashdot.org/articles/99/04/25/1438249.shtml Udhay -- ((Udhay Shankar N)) ((udhay @ pobox.com)) ((www.digeratus.com))
