Statistics in the school curriculum: A statistician's view

In December 1982, the Conference Board of the Mathematical Sciences -- of which the American Statistical Association is a member -- issued a report entitled "The mathematical sciences curriculum K-12: What is still fundamental and what is not?" The report had been prepared at the request of the National Science Board Commission on Mathematics, Science and Technology. I am hopeful that as a result of the Conference Board recommendation it is no longer so much a question of whether statistics should be included in the school curriculum, but what kind of statistics., and that's what I want to talk about.