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"ALAS, FAIR SCIENCE " |  |
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Music was
particularly big one year. It was big for
the students (with The New Kids on
the Block). Music was also big for the
teachers who gave
up a spring evening for a school concert—but no evening for a science
fair.
We need to strike a
balance
on how to foster talents. With Music and with Chorus, kids do less science for us. If
more of Science we’d hype,
for college they would be ripe and fit the MIT-type. The Science book they’d ban it. Few students know each planet. But more than just a few kids know middle names of New Kids. They
do quite poorly on a
big test flora/fauna. But, boy, they know Madonna. The newest rock stars’ birthdays Mean more to them than Earth Days. They still hear more ‘bout Beatles than links of AIDS to needles. They
don’t like calibrating.
They’d rather be gyrating to songs with an X-rating. The countries Oriental have passed us in skills mental. On them we show reliance in areas of Science. We
used to make DeSotos,
but now we need the quotas on imports of Toyotas. While Science gets a low place, the Music we will showplace. Because the townfolk love it, we’ll put nothing above it. The
will of staff I’ve noted:
For concerts we’re devoted, But Science Fair’s demoted. © Michael
Berkowitz
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