Question for the young'uns - calculators in school?

[Brokenjaw]

end up turning the American race into a bunch of batteries.

I want to be Neo!!

I have sat here with SA's son many a night doing math homework with him. One night, we both sat with her son and showed him how to do the work because he was not understanding how to do it.I don't exactly remember what it was but I do know that after we got done he understood it.The next day he came home from scholl telling us that his teacher said that we are not his teacher and that he has to do the work the way she showed him how to do it. I say fuck that, if you come to the right answer and you take 2 or 3 more or less steps then the way the teacher showed you, then there should not be a problem.

As far as using a calculator, I was not alowed to use one until I was in college prep Algerbra 2 my sophmore year. Hell even in my accounting class we were told to do evrything by hand and then check our work with the calculator.