as long as we do not do that, then we will graduate students from high school who cannot think in a very critical fashion. so i would say it is the responsibility of a parent to begin to talk to their children in full sentences, to teach them spacial concepts so that they can begin to nee negotiate complex ideas. we have to have something to work on. so it has to be a continuum that is kekd, it is tightly connected so that by the time we graduate a student ready for college, that student is a very critical thinker and knows how to deal with complex issues. that student knows how to write a formula if a is a divisor of b and c what is the relationship. it is a continuum, you have to connect the dos dots but when you see students so well prepared to come into your university and graduate with a degree that adds value to the rest of their lives, what would