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Rex Rice's high school follows the science sequence promoted by----------------------------------------------------------------------
Leon Lederman: all freshmen have a year of physics, and all sophomores have
a year of chemistry. The juniors have biology, and they can take advanced
physics.
school,
If your high school is pushing for physics in the first year of high
watch out. What are the motives? I think there is strong motive amongthe
biologists and some chemists to attempt a switch with the physicists. Forthey
years the physics teacher has gotten the cream of the crop because the
ho-hum students have already satisfied their science requirement before
got to physics. The biologists want to turn that around. Let the hoardsof
students with zero science interest take physics instead of biology. Then
let us teach some more advanced biology. In the schools I have examined
that are pushing for this, I see essentially no scientific logic behind
their push. It seems totally based upon selfish motives.