Math Score Myth

 There is some concern on behalf of those who believe in putting a number to everything and feeding it into a computer to come up with some statistics. The statistics in our country say that students in public schools don't have the scores they think they ought. The folks who do this for a living have blind folders on. Ask the majority of people, if you want to use stats, how useful trigonometry and calculus were in their lives and you will come up with the lowest score there is. When I taught little ones during a spate in Primary School, the new fad was Algebra. Hey, we are teaching kids algebra! How smart is that? After thirty years in Education, I came up with some thoughts and one of them is that the Math journey in schools is nonsense. The reason I say that, is most people can't deal with a budget, their mortgage or doing income tax let alone Geometry. Educators ought to take a look at the broad picture and dicount the Academic lane. Students need to learn about life as it is, not at a scale Educators want it to be.  Man is among the most stupid of creatures. Regard other fauna, ones that have four legs, wings, crawl and creep. They have no clothes, create their own homes, search food daily to survive and deal with whatever elements appear. Man can climb the political and religious and health and industrial and entertainment ladders to the very top, and still remain the weakest, most helpless and destructive creatures that abound. They struggle to survive what Nature puts before them. Animals have instinct and learn from each other and yes, fight for their territory but not with a science using the elements other than those that are basic and natural. Animals, feel and react; they spend no time dealing with emotion. They get on with what they need and do it now. One day, when we aren't ranting at kids for their Math marks or other lack of achievements according to what computers tell us is important, we might look at teaching them the most important aspects of surviving every day life without a pill.  We humans have learned nothing as close to what any animal out there or in there, knows naturally, We shall end and they will survive.