Back to School Part 2

We inadvertently forgot to include this suggestion for improving education with the others:

From Sharon:"I've always thought that the grade school curriculum (at almost every level) would be much improved by having yearly themes from which individual subjects would draw and all would overlap. For example, if the theme was FOOD, a class might use actual recipes in math class and for science experiments--research regional dishes for history and sociology, write and produce a cookbook for an English and art project. I've always thought students would appreciate learning as a 'whole' experience more than they do the unrelated pieces of knowledge we sometimes seem to be handing out to our children."