My children's school based their entire curriculum on the state test. As a result, I had to teach my children how to read a face clock and geography. They never were taught where the states are located. My son with Asperger's Syndrome was "ruining the curve" and so they wanted to send him to a life skills class at a nearby school. I home school him now and at 14, he is finally learning to read. The school's are too obsessed with their standing on the tests and not enough on the children.
Single-sex classrooms are appearing in public schools all over the country. We get to the bottom of why single-gender education is becoming more and more popular.
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