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Why bust your butt getting a science degree that is wicked hard, when the job might pay 15 bucks an hour tops and you will be replaced in 5 year? Read all the science majors complaining on this forum, science jobs don't pay anything (unless government) and even those will be cut drastically in the next few years. Math you might be right though, many ways to go with a math degree.
Why would companies invest in a country with such a pitiful showing in the hard sciences? Plenty of other countries with proficient workers, and their labor rates are often a fraction of ours. If America isn't even going to try, it's no surprise jobs are hard to come by in the fields, and don't pay particularly well.
Here's something that will shock most people here. This isn't because of religion or conservatism like most people here will say. It's because inner city school perform so poorly. Inner cities are usually heavily populated by minorities and Democrats. The best schools are in suburban areas which usually trend conservative. How do you explain that liberals?
Math and sciences in the suburbs are also below standards. Suburban areas trend conservative, news to me, the failure has been bipartisan,
Why would companies invest in a country with such a pitiful showing in the hard sciences? Plenty of other countries with proficient workers, and their labor rates are often a fraction of ours. If America isn't even going to try, it's no surprise jobs are hard to come by in the fields, and don't pay particularly well.
There are companies looking for workers in the US, those positions are going unfilled because HS grads do not have the tehcnical skills, engineering positions are being imported from foreign countries because we do not have the grads.
That's because schools here would rather teach students how to use condoms, get an abortion, and learn LGBT history and how much of an evil, environmentally destructive human they are besides learning math and science.
It's an decades old problem. The US schooling system relies on standardized testing even for the smallest kids, and it simply does not work. The countries leading the pack, like Finland, do not rely on tests, and instead let the teachers run the schools, and being a teacher is a respected profession.
"Even where U.S. student scores have improved, many other nations have improved much faster, leaving American students far behind many of their peers — especially in Asia and Europe.
With an eye toward global competitiveness, U.S. education officials are sounding the alarm over what they describe as a recurring theme when American students are put to the test. Lamenting what he described as "sober cautionary notes," Education Secretary Arne Duncan said it was unacceptable that eighth-grade achievement in math and science are stagnant, with U.S. students far less likely than many Asian counterparts to reach advanced levels in science.
"If we as a nation don't turn that around, those nations will soon be out-competing us in a knowledge-based, global economy," Duncan said."
Funny how some people turn every issue into a tool which can be used to attack the faith, or political preference of other posters.
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