• Dagwood222@lemm.ee
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    5 months ago

    After Sputnik went up, there was a giant call for the US to push more kids into STEM. Kids are always a political issue.

    Heck, watch ‘The Music Man’ if you don’t beleive me!

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      5 months ago

      We don’t need more kids to go into those fields we need more funding for those fields. If you want depressing look up what happens to the bulk of people with physics, or geologist, or chemistry undergrad degrees.

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        Back before Brown vs. Board of Education, US high school could produce kids who’d had four years of science, math, history, foreign languages, and could play an instrument. When they realized that they’d have to educate all the citizens to that level they dropped the level, hoping the colleges would train the leaders of tomorrow