>> I think it's good to have a standardized curriculum so that you know that a
>> student from anywhere (at least within the same country or region) has roug
>> the same knowledge. But it's good to have a well-rounded curriculum.

That also means that you have a whole bunch of students who don't know

>whatever got left out of the standardized curriculum. As someone pointed
>out the other day after watching three 20-somethings fail to produce an
>answer for "What is 66+34?" -- "these are the people who will be trying to
>figure out out social security and benefits."

I think they are already working there.. B)

If every school is using the same books or, in this case, computerized

>packages, the kids are only going to learn what they want them to learn.

An added problem to that is that if every school teaches whatever
they want to you can't go by marks to decide if someone is ready
for university or not. They need to be working from the same books
to compare student results properly.

I think some Private schools get around this but for most students
you need to be working from the same playbook..

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In recent years, I've heard about schools in the US lowering their standards,

> part because they want to show that more students are passing & graduating.

Some school districts have done some bizarre things. A long time back
(so hopefully this has changed) they used to say that to get into a
higher end university course like medical or science, you needed an
80% average to be accepted.. But if you were Black, you only needed
60% and if you were Inuit, you only needed 40%..

As I say, that was many years ago but just last year my niece, who
is a teacher, was telling me that in her school the principal had
made new rules for class study and the Library content and there
were no books allowed with ANY white people in them. Period..

It's one thing to ban certain books or insist that everyone is
represented in the books they study but to totally ban whites?

Another thing, no sex education for young students EXCEPT for
Gay and Trans, which they were teaching to 5 and 6 year olds..

Again, include everyone but reverse prejudice is still prejudice.
And (IMHO) kids that young shouldn't be informed beyond saying
that some families may have 2 mommies or 2 daddies.

Fortunately that principal is now gone and it sounds like things
are getting more back to reasonable..

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Rob Mccart wrote to MIKE POWELL <=-

I think some Private schools get around this but for most students
you need to be working from the same playbook..

Yes, and no. I suppose they get around independent curricula by being
teaching more than the public school curriculum, but my daughter
transferred private to private and lost a year of her math because the
old school's class didn't line up to the new one.



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[...] although I bought college text books on specific
computers to learn what I was doing so maybe it's not that
different.. B)

The QUE line of books on various OSes were pretty good for me.

My first computers were Apple II+ based so I was using books
that were supplied by Apple to the colleges.

I suppose I had a few others which had sample programs in them
that I would copy out and then modify to work better for practice
but those were not college books, more for new programmers to
play with.

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Re: Decline Of Pc's
By: Ogg to Rob Mccart on Sun Dec 28 2025 08:50:00

The QUE line of books on various OSes were pretty good for me.

Those were great books, each one tome. I still have my Using HTML 4 Special Ed. book.

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Rob Mccart wrote to OGG <=-

My first computers were Apple II+ based so I was using books
that were supplied by Apple to the colleges.

For me, it was O'Reilly books with the black and white animal drawings
on the front.

My first experience with them, was, as a fledgling unix admin, having
to replace a DNS server in our office. We'd borrowed a SUN box from the
local university that provided us with our internet circuit, and they
wanted it back.

I went into the office on a Saturday morning, fired up a pot of coffee,
took an old desktop PC and loaded BSD/OS on it. Picked up Cricket Liu's
DNS and Bind book, and by 1:00pm had a fully working DNS server
handling forward and reverse zones for 3 class C subnets.

Well written, they are.




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I think some Private schools get around this but for most students
you need to be working from the same playbook..

Yes, and no. I suppose they get around independent curricula by being

>teaching more than the public school curriculum, but my daughter
>transferred private to private and lost a year of her math because the
>old school's class didn't line up to the new one.

Yes, that's the sort of thing I meant about all schools should be
working from the same books.

It can be be just as bad moving from one school district to another.
I remember moving when I was in Grade 3 and finding in some subjects
I was well ahead of the new school and in others I was behind.

And I think that was using the same books, just different teaching
methods, the timing of things. As long as you get it all by exam
time, it's all good..

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Re: Re: Decline Of Pc's
By: poindexter FORTRAN to Rob Mccart on Thu Jan 01 2026 09:39:26

For me, it was O'Reilly books with the black and white animal drawings
on the front.

I've had a few of those over the years. I still have a couple: "CSS and Documents" and "What is HTML 5".

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