'New Math' just doesn't add up for parents
You know, there was a time when I thought I was a marginally intelligent person. Reasonably so, anyway. I mean, I’m not trying to toot my own horn when I tell you that I was a good student in grade school and an even better one in high school. In college, I did fabulously in my major and pretty well overall. In fact, I’m pricing master’s programs to continue my education, which makes me both thrilled and terrified. Well, at least I WAS pricing master’s programs. At the moment, I’m not only not certain I can go back to school, I’m also not entirely sure I’m going to pass the third grade. That’s right, I am retching and reeling and totally freaking out trying to keep up with Kyle’s homework and test preparations. Seriously. I know that we’ve vetted this topic before, but the sad fact is, friends, I appear to be getting stupider over time. Evidence of this was Kyle’s homework paper from the other night.
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