Happy New Year, Karen! In response, I can only say the entire school curricula could use a revamping. We are slaves to the old nineteenth century paradigm and must get a clue, or we will eradicate each other. We can start with the humanities which still tend to "humanize." I think teaching of our many cultures through literature, poetry and music is still the most alluring to our youth, and it validates them as well. (Socrates produced some brilliant writers, thinkers and speakers.) Beginning with Proposition 13, so much of what rounded our students was excised from the daily curriculum. What a tragedy that the loss of opportunity to educate has been lost because of misplaced funds! That almighty dollar is wielding its mighty weight to our extinction. Money rules all!
