In my calculus class, I said "to pass this class, you have to know things." The room went as quiet as a morgue.
Somehow we've reached a point in education where:View quoted post on X
- teaching kids explicitly is controversial
- academic rigour is treated as a threat to student wellbeing
- memorizing math facts is discouraged or considered unnecessary
- practice is dismissed as "drill and kill"
Low expectations are not kindness, and nothing hurts someone's confidence more than falling further behind every year.
