now this is depressing

[Ineluke]

I could read write and even multiply at four. You shouldn\'t feel bad about it. It just means you give more attention to the mental development of your child than your parents gave to your mental development.

That was *supposed* to make you feel better but I\'m obviously not very good at these kinds of things...

[tygerwilde]

LOL, that\'s alright man, I\'ll take it as meaning that I\'m a dedicated and astute parent, not that I\'m a real dumbass

[DepthBlade]

This is not necessarily a bad thing that kids are getting smarter its just to bad that this enrichment in intelligence couldn\'t get passed to some of the more unfortunate children out there!

\"Celebrities make millions for advertising merchandise for thirty seconds...and yet there is kids around the world that suffer and have no real chance of getting on their own two feet!\"

[Caldazar]

Originally posted by Davis
Once upon a time, children were having philisophical bible discussions and knew Latin at age 4. Standards have gone down, not up.

That was perhaps 0.05% of the entire population. What about the others that couldn\'t read, count or spell properly?

Anyways, it sounds like you got yourself a young professor Tyger, be proud

[tygerwilde]

thanks cal.

depth, it\'s not like our kids are in that great a situation, we live in the worst part of town. we scrimp to get by, even though we take out student loans all the time.  and when we leave school and have to pay back the loans, we\'re goin to have problems. hopefully, we\'ll get decent jobs after getting our college educations.
our kids are just lucky to have a couple of benefits. they have their own parents for one thing. they have grandparents who adore them. though we cant\' afford it, every now and then we scrape enough up that we can get an educational toy or two, and our parents help with that. it\'s not the best situation, but we work hard to make sure that it\'s as good as it can be for the circumstances.

[DepthBlade]

Tyger although there is some places that aren\'t as funded as others the majority of North Americans are priveledged enough to get schooling...

[tygerwilde]

I\'m not saying that they\'re living in absolute squalor either, just that the situation that they\'re in isn\'t ideal. like what you said about schooling in north america. missouri is an educational bad joke.

hehe, education in missouri is really behind. back in california, I was getting beggining algebra in sixth grade. we moved to missouri and  early algebra was a sophomore class in high school. I was thinkin \"What the f**k, that\'s four years difference.\" Not only that, but I was taught wrong here. they didn\'t teach us the order of operations, they taught us, multiply before adding, and always work left to right. I didn\'t learn the proper order of operations till I got to college. and this is stuff I should have known as a kid.
and other areas are a joke as well, the sciences(earth apparently is more like a giant cube), history (I once had a teacher who tried to convince us that George washington was from missouri.) even health(somehow I don\'t actually beleive that it could be healthy to drain the blood of a turkey over a vat of strawberrie juice and drink the contents *a ward against STDs*)

missouri probably has the worst public schooling program in the united states. when my kids go to school, I\'m sure as shit going to make sure to talk to my them about the things that they learned.