This guy is a PhD, college professor, and school board candidate. He thinks,
"In the global economy we must prepare our students for the skills required for
the 21st century. Students need proficiency or above in the STEM disciplines
(Science, Technology, English, Mathematics). In addition to knowing how to
navigate the Internet, students should know how to balance checkbooks, convert
units to the metric system, etc."
http://www.wickedlocal.com/beverly/town_info/government/x493115927/What-the-Ward-4-School-Committee-candidates-have-to-say-Michael-Gendre#axzz1cHddlHw5
Balancing checkbooks is good. But kids need to comprehend, measure in, and use
the metric system, not convert endlessly between metric and Customary. The
usual school conversion problems only teach kids to hate the metric system.
