On a recent vacation, I spent some time with friends in Star Valley, Wyoming. This is a beautiful, remote farming community in a valley surrounded by mountains, about an hour's drive south of Yellowstone National Park.
The wife half of these friends is a 3rd grade schoolteacher in this valley. She informed me that all grades learn metric ONLY -- they do not teach anything using inches or other colloquial units, at least in K-6 grades. She did not know for sure what the 7-12 grades did, but believed they also used metric. Seems to me we are making progress, when metric is being taught in such a remote part of the country. Jim Elwell, CAMS Electrical Engineer Industrial manufacturing manager Salt Lake City, Utah, USA www.qsicorp.com
