To the Editor:Re “High School Doesn’t Have to Be Boring” (Sunday Review, March 31):Jal Mehta and Sarah Fine illuminate a simple yet sad truth about most American high schools. When we merely ask our students to be passive recipients of test-driven content, we should expect boredom as the dominant result. The writer is a retired high school teacher and principal. To the Editor:I t aught math in high school for many years, and, yes, it can be tedious. But when chess club met on Wednesday afternoons or when I arranged for the math team to go to a competition on a Saturday, the enthusiasm of students and teachers was evident.

Source: New York Times April 07, 2019 16:52 UTC