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Math is important. And so are history, grammar, and chemistry.

But does it disturb anyone else that public education doesn't teach ART anymore? Creative writing? Theatre? Dance? Music? Drawing, sculpting, or painting?

I'm going to make a really dramatic metaphor: Creativity is the tide that refreshes the otherwise stagnant pool of knowledge. Those geniuses that we idolize - Martin Luther King, the NASA scientists who put Neil Armstong on the moon, Albert Einstein and William Shakespeare - None of them would have amounted to anything if they didn't know how to think creatively, approach a problem in a different way, consider more than just what a textbook told them to do.

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School Uniforms

Submitted by Terihasameltdown in Education

My daughter started her career in high school in September. After forking out money on her confirmation outfit and grad dress (there! I didn't call it prom!) I was less than thrilled about this additional expense.
Being a working class struggle-for-every-penny-only-to-see-the-welfare-buttwipes-scoop-it-up-for-beer-and-smokes type, I put this purchase off until the week before school started. Me and every other uniform needing family in the city.
I live in Hamilton and as far as i know, there is only one location that sells school uniforms for all the Catholic schools worldwide, or so it would seem. We drove by on the Friday. Past the store and the thousands of parents with sour faced offspring standing in a line that went around the block; their expressions ranging from desparation to anger.

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Me Add Good Sum Day

Submitted by Bryan Alaspa in Education

I remember when the world seemed to have taken a wide step forward without me. I think I was in the second grade. I have often wondered if I was sick or something the day all of math was explained. One moment we all had number-lines taped to the top of our desk and everything was making perfect sense. I was even doing quite well with math. If you got five plus three then you went to the number five and you counted up three and there was your answer. It was simple.

Then I think I must have been sick. I was out one day and then when I came back to school all of the number-lines were gone. I remember being handed a test and everyone around me was filling in numbers like crazy and I had no clue what to do with any of it. I remember watching some kids doing this thing where they were tapping their pencil points against the paper and I thought maybe they were counting points on the numbers. Now that I think about it I am thinking they were tapping out small dots on the paper.

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