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Barb,
I think "mission creep" is overly charitable as a description. When enforcing the "rules" becomes counter...
Less than 1% of such knowledge is ever taught in schools. Sure it might be nice to have this particular 1%, but at what cost?! Certainly at the cost of NOT learning SEVERAL percent (with plenty of overlap) by other means.
I believe that either of my kids could diagram an atomic weapon, and reasonably estimate blast and flash distance from yields. They certainly understand special relativity as we have discussed how ridiculous shows like Star Trek are in completely ignoring Lorentz transformations and other aspects of relativity in their plots.
The kids could get credit for *EDUCATIONAL* TV time by explaining the holes in the physics in the plots of the shows (like Star Trek) that they watched, so this became a bit of a compebreastion between the kids to see who could first find the holes. No holes - no credit.
Similarly, when watching shows like "Cops" the compebreastion is to call out the causes of action as the police go around violating people's rights.
In short, TV here is NOT an entirely pbuttive exercise.
Have you watched the Discover and Science channels on TV? The material there is generally MUCH better than I ever had in school, and there is considerably more of it each day. There is generally a better science education to be had on TV than there is in our schools!
Steve Richfie1d
There is also a huge mission creep here; where what was a search for portable guns were extended to knives, and then to mundane tools. The cost to society goes up dramatically...
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