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THE DEMON-HAUNTED WORLD The U.S. has its own learning system and it may not be as advanced as theirs, but it is just as good. Otherwise I think your article is a very educating one. Not one kid in this school likes science. I really didn't understand the point of the article. I thought that it was very boring. I'm just not into anything like that. I am studying to be a lawyer and frankly I do agree with my parents when they say I have an attitude problem toward science. It's true that some American kids don't try, but we could be smarter than any other country if we wanted to. Instead of homework, kids will watch TV. I have to agree that I do it. I have cut it down from about 4 hrs. a day. I don't believe it is the school systems fault, I think the whole country is brought up with not enough emphasis on school. I know my mom would rather be watching me play basketball or soccer, instead of helping me with an assignment. Most of the kids I know could care less about making sure there doing there work right. I don't think American kids are stupid. It just they don't study hard enough because most of kids work . . . Lots of people said that Asian people are smarter than American and they are good at everything, but that's not true. They are not good at sports. They don't have time to play sports. I'm in sports myself, and I feel that the other kids on my team push to you to excel more in that sport than in school. If we want to rank first, we could go to school all day and not have any social life. I can see why a lot of science teachers would get mad at you for insulting there job. Maybe if the teachers could be more exciting, the children will want to learn ... If science is made to be fun, kids will want to learn. To accomplish this, it needs to be started early on, not just taught as facts and figures. I really find it hard to believe those facts about the U.S. in science. If we are so far behind, how come Michael Gorbachev came to Minnesota and Montana to Control Data to see how we run are computers and thing? 320

House on Fire • Around 33 hours for fifth graders! In my opinion thats too much that's almost as many hours as a full job practically. So instead of homework we can be making money. • When you put down how far behind we are in science and math, why don't you try tell us this in a little nicer manner? . . . Have a little pride in your country and its capabilities. • I think your facts were inconclusive and the evidence very flimsy. All in all, you raised a good point. All in all, these students don't think there's much of a problem; and if there is, not much can be done about it. Many also complained that the lectures, classroom discussions and homework were 'boring'. Especially for an MTV generation beset by attention deficit disorders in various degrees of severity, it is boring. But spending three or four grades practising once again the addition, subtraction, multiplication and division of fractions would bore anyone, and the tragedy is that, say, elementary probability theory is within reach of these students. Likewise for the forms of plants and animals presented without evolution; history presented as wars, dates and kings without the role of obedience to authority, greed, incompetence and ignorance; English without new words entering the language and old words disappearing; and chemistry without where the elements come from. The means of awakening these students are at hand and ignored. Since most school children emerge with only a tiny fraction of what they've been taught permanently engraved in their long-term memories, isn't it essential to infect them with consumer-tested topics that aren't boring . . . and a zest for learning? Most adults who wrote thought there's a substantial problem. I received letters from parents about inquisitive children willing to work hard, passionate about science but with no adequate community or school resources to satisfy their interests. Other letters told of parents who knew nothing about science sacrificing their own comfort so their children could have science books, microscopes, telescopes, computers or chemistry sets; of parents teaching their children that hard work will get them out of poverty; of a grandmother bringing tea to a student up late at night still doing 321

THE DEMON-HAUNTED WORLD<br />

The U.S. has its own learning system and it may not be as<br />

advanced as theirs, but it is just as good. Otherwise I think your<br />

article is a very educating one.<br />

Not one kid in this school likes science. I really didn't understand<br />

the point of the article. I thought that it was very boring.<br />

I'm just not into anything like that.<br />

I am studying to be a lawyer and frankly I do agree with my<br />

parents when they say I have an attitude problem toward science.<br />

It's true that some American kids don't try, but we could be<br />

smarter than any other country if we wanted to.<br />

Instead of homework, kids will watch TV. I have to agree that I<br />

do it. I have cut it down from about 4 hrs. a day.<br />

I don't believe it is the school systems fault, I think the whole<br />

country is brought up with not enough emphasis on school. I<br />

know my mom would rather be watching me play basketball or<br />

soccer, instead of helping me with an assignment. Most of the<br />

kids I know could care less about making sure there doing there<br />

work right.<br />

I don't think American kids are stupid. It just they don't study<br />

hard enough because most of kids work . . . Lots of people said<br />

that Asian people are smarter than American and they are<br />

good at everything, but that's not true. They are not good at<br />

sports. They don't have time to play sports.<br />

I'm in sports myself, and I feel that the other kids on my team<br />

push to you to excel more in that sport than in school.<br />

If we want to rank first, we could go to school all day and not<br />

have any social life.<br />

I can see why a lot of science teachers would get mad at you for<br />

insulting there job.<br />

Maybe if the teachers could be more exciting, the children will<br />

want to learn ... If science is made to be fun, kids will want to<br />

learn. To accomplish this, it needs to be started early on, not<br />

just taught as facts and figures.<br />

I really find it hard to believe those facts about the U.S. in<br />

science.<br />

If we are so far behind, how come Michael Gorbachev came to<br />

Minnesota and Montana to Control Data to see how we run are<br />

computers and thing?<br />

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