Re: WW II

Brian Reay /P wrote:
> "Chris Street" <ng@chris-street.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
> news:vK9Am.38201$L%5.34737@newsfe22.ams2...
>> Spike wrote:
>>> Dave wrote:
>>>
>>>> is this subject still taught in schools?
>>>>
>>>> Dave
>>>
>>> No.
>>>
>>
>> I thought that the Holocaust was required on the National Curriculim
>> and must be taught - be a little tricky to teach it without the WW2
>> background I woudl have thought.
>>
>
> Yes, it is taught.
>
>> Then again who knows what schools teach - they certainly dont teach
>> masic maths as I found out when someone was trying to get the exact
>> decimal value of root(2) in my office....
>
> That is taught as well. Just because some one doesn't know (or remember)
> something doesn't mean they weren't taught it. If all teacher's had to
> do for  a pupil/student  to know something forever, the job would be far
> easier. (And the roads would be far safer.)

Yes well, someone fresh from A-levels with a putative pass who doesnt
know that you will never find root2 by iteration, and further more has
never even heard of the concept of irrational numbers doesnt fill me
with confidence...

MAybe I'm just getting old and grouchy about the young-uns of today...

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Barry Moore (11.10.2009 23:33)