They both come from the same place. They blame veteran old teachers for the problems in schools today. Instead of looking at the fact that kids don' t sleep enough, which impinges on their attention span etc, they say that teachers are boring. Instead of asking veteran experienced teachers to brainstorm on better teaching methods, they brought in businessmen and principals to see how to make teachers work harder to be "more interesting." They're reforming the superficial system instead of going back to basic curriculum. Phonetics, grammar, the multiplication table and tactile abacus. Batya http://shilohmusings.blogspot.com/ http://samizdatblogfree.blogspot.com/ http://me-ander.blogspot.com/ http://shilohpics.blogspot.com/ __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com