In your presentation about the fighting in the Israel and Palestine area, you showed everything in square miles. Thus you just presented me with a new record for calculations needed to convert King George III Colonial units. I am not going to mail those antiquated measures to my grandchildren and I find it to be incredible that our schools are still teaching them in place of the International System of units (SI-metric). Each week I mail News for Kids to a couple of my grandchildren. Before doing so I change all of the King George Colonial units to SI. It was in 1975 that our Congress passed the Metric Conversion Act but since then Congress and America has backpedaled continually. This in spite of the fact that all of the rest of the world has adopted SI-metric for its daily use. Even Canada and Britain are in their final stages of converting to metric but here we are still using King George III Colonial units every day. At the very least you should be showing both measures to help to educate and prepare our children for the modern world. Sincerely, Norman V. Werling 1240 Hunters Drive Stone Mountain, GA 30083-2545 404-292-9328
