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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OK, we get the basic idea that reading and writing and arithmetic needs to be ABOUT something to make sense.  I just think it should be pretty tightly focused on the basics in order to build that skill set up.

We don't need the circumlocutions of logic about enrichment and non-core skillsets like, well, learning music makes you want to learn about other things, or dance makes you gain discipline, or finger-painting makes you spatially gifted and able to understand higher math.

All those things are probably true.  But they're tangential to core life skills.  And the kids who are already in educational deficit are not in a position to be focused on the tangential.  And if they don't connect with the core life skills of reading, writing, and math, they'll have no further educational options.  And what do you do with your life if you read and write at a third grade level and can't balance your checkbook? Would they even let you clerk at the quik-e-mart?[/quote]

Are you an educator?[/quote]

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