In 7th grade art, we were given an assignment to make something for the annual school art fair which displayed our creativity to the community for their viewing. One girl, who had unrealized talent, did an amazingly anatomically accurate statue of a nude female. The community reacted, too.
Hey, they used the same “educators will do the heavy lifting” strategy worked for teaching us ‘New Math’ (not at all)… the switch to metric was doomed.
Having made a law saying the US was switching to metric, they left it in the hands of my school teachers (who didn’t understand metric, themselves) to accomplish the feat. So while utterly confusing us kids with the metric system they didn’t understand, the teachers neglected to teach us the (supposedly dead) imperial system as well. Thankfully, as I needed them, I taught myself both systems and have dealt with them ever since.
In 7th grade art, we were given an assignment to make something for the annual school art fair which displayed our creativity to the community for their viewing. One girl, who had unrealized talent, did an amazingly anatomically accurate statue of a nude female. The community reacted, too.