And who scuttled the teaching? My two older children (now 36 and 40) BOTH learned metric-only in elementary school (in two different school systems because we moved). My youngest child (30) learned a mixture and was pretty confused by it. At least the second school system changed its policies between child #2 and child #3. It is another example of the US "retreating" on metric, along with Imperial bricks, lighting fixtures, and highway construction, scuttled by special interests whining to Congress, and lack of enforcement, sucgh as NASA refusing to obey EO12770.
--- On Sat, 8/29/09, Pierre Abbat <[email protected]> wrote: From: Pierre Abbat <[email protected]> Subject: [USMA:45716] Re: Mandatory metrication To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]> Date: Saturday, August 29, 2009, 10:51 PM On Saturday 29 August 2009 20:31:59 Pat Naughtin wrote: > * Why was metrication in Australia so successful – and so quick? > > * Why is metrication in the USA apparently so unsuccessful – and so > slow? Not having experienced metrication anywhere but the USA, I can only say why it's been unsuccessful in the USA. I see two reasons: *The process was scuttled by people who, for political reasons, rescinded the requirements to set deadlines for metrication. *School curricula attempt to teach both sets of units at once. Pierre
