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Originally Posted by noodle
To be honest, I think it's statements like the one in Bold is the big problem! The rest of your post seems reasonable, but a tiny little sentence like that makes everything you said; invalid!
Personally, I don't know what the educational system is like in the US, but last year, I had to help out 2 Americans that came to France for an exchange. One was from Texas and the other somewhere in the centre of the US. I was pretty shocked at how bad they were doing in their Math and Chemistry classes in their first year of the Bachelors degree, yet they told me they had very good grades back home. I had to help them for about a month to catch up to the French standard. Luckily they were very intelligent, otherwise it would have taken much longer.
So, I don't know what they learnt in America, but when it came to classical Sciences, they sucked!
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unfortunately this is becoming more and more standard. The American educational system along with many other areas needs to be revamp badly. I dont know what happen but the kids i see today do not learn nearly as much as my generation or the ones before mine did. American kids are falling behind many other industrialized countries in two important categories Math and Science. Also, the drop out rate has started to climb and the amount of patents issued has declined. Its very worrisome that people arent even being creative anymore.