Some busy work needed

Published: Monday, Aug. 30 2004 12:00 a.m. MDT

Summary

My wife and I moved to Seattle a few years ago after growing up in Utah. I read the Deseret Morning News every couple of days to check up on happenings in Utah. Aug. 26 I read about private schools that base their curricula on LDS principles, proclaiming their closed-minded "academies" offer a better education than the public schools.

Randy Jensen of the Kimber Academy tried to pass the academy off as a great college prep institution and explained that the students at Kimber Academy are not required to do homework. How does that in any way prepare students for college? Where is the work ethic? We learn so much more from busy work than the "average rainfall in Brazil"; we learn how to work, study and manage time.

Face it, sometimes in life you have to do some busy work, especially in college. But I guess the graduates of Kimber Academy will learn that lesson later than those who go to the public schools.

Stephen Jones

Seattle

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