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Over the weekend i read a post by Karl Fisch called A fundamental Disconnect?. Inthe post he talked about a story he read and listed some high lights from it. The story was about how schools aren't preparing their student for the future and that teachers are too broad with the subjects they're working on. Here's one of the parts of the story he put down:

teachers are covering too many subjects too broadly, when only a few core subjects should be taught and basic skills should be well developed in all students... In terms of assessments, multiple-choice tests rarely ask students to explain their reasoning or apply knowledge to new situations.

Personally I would disagree. I think the teachers teach us what we need to know in the subject if we learned every single thing out of a subject we would never get to the next one, or advance in our learning. Back to the teachers not preparing us for the future, I think is wrong because we live in the present not in the past and we're always advancing. Like in this class we're using lap tops and jump drives so I'd say thats pretty advanced. I have agree with what Mr. Fisch said:

I don't believe that all we're about in K-12 is preparing kids for college and to be future employees, but certainly that's part of what we do. And I do think that - at my high school at least - we do a fairly good job at many of the above things.

I think that the world is keeping up with technology pretty well and same with me. For example I have one of the latest game systems, and cable and just stuff like that. I think maybe this person should have done some more research before they wrote this story.