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Message: [QUOTE="cohenzone, post: 2974229, member: 504"] Congratulations to your daughters, you should be proud. I have 3 sons and one is a scientist/college prof. The others are less math challenged than I was, but one became an attorney and the other an Emmy winning TV producer. Young women are now entering all the fields which is a good thing. The sciences are wide open to them. One problem for a lot of modern kids isn’t so much math as it is writing ability. They spend so much time writing short hand in emails and more recently even worse, by texting, that writing is suffering. It’s a challenge for parents and teachers to overcome. And with the advent of the easy availability of electronics for kids to play games on and text, reading is slipping as a pass time which also tends to make writing skills suffer. In my previous life as an attorney I’d get an occasional letter from lawyers so poorly written that it made me wonder how they got through law school and passed a bar exam. [/QUOTE]