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user-inactivated  ·  2727 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Why Do Americans Stink at Math?

This is dangerous. Raising a child unprepared for independent living - which comes from learning to sustain yourself after miltitudes of failures in no least measure - only benefits the parent or the authority figures willing to manipulate the child, and even then - in the short run. To whom are they going to leave the country once they kick the bucket (an inevitable outcome, no matter how undesirable)?

How are the Americans dealing with it? Is there a counter-movement to this madness?





user-inactivated  ·  2727 days ago  ·  link  ·  

uhh, sort of

i mean, the atlantic runs lots of stupid articles about stem education if that counts

if you can make it to college with your brain intact and study a real subject, you do okay

user-inactivated  ·  2727 days ago  ·  link  ·  

...I never thought it was that bad.