re: #177 Hecuba’s daughter

The movie “Stand and Deliver” showed that a great teacher can transform students who were abandoned by the establishment into accomplished practitioners of mathematics. There really are serious flaws in how math is taught in this country — flaws that hamper our nation’s ability to compete in the modern world. Well, that and the focus on Ayn Randish economics which lead to brilliant physicists working in finance instead of science.

and then they made the students repeat the test, because the school board didn’t believe a bunch of hispanics could have scored so well without cheating…