What is wrong with the US education system?

[Don Shepherd]

(11-11-2014 09:27 AM)Kevin Ouellet Wrote:  One thing that is annoying about the US education system is that some schools force students to get a TI-Nspire (or borrow one from school) running the latest OS and no other calculator model (not even the TI-84 Plus, HP Prime nor TI-89 Titanium) are allowed. Isn't it illegal in some countries to force students to buy one specific calculator model and disallow every other?

Kevin, I'm not aware of any school districts in my state that "require" students to buy and use a specific model calculator in math class. Some schools may "recommend" certain models, but I would imagine that a student could choose a different model if he/she wanted to do that.

We don't use calculators at all at my school.