Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.
Yes, but how do Chinese students feel about themselves? Is their self-esteem nurtured? I mean, what is the true purpose of education after all?
Ah...but I’ll bet the USA had to include a diverse population with a strict statistical quota of all groups, including one-armed Hotentots, whereas the Asians were all Asian. If our Asians competed against their Asians, we would rank higher.
I’m not surprised at all at how horribly bad our school system’s are. I work with people who’ve never heard of Auschwitz before and these are college age people. Are children are woefully ignorant of most anything except twitter and facebook, and not enough adults care anymore to make a difference.
How do the private school and home schooled American kids fair?
Frankly, over half of the public schools are now more than baby sitting warehouses for parental dolts who care less about their kids education than they do their next shoe purchase.
Make unions illegal and fire teachers that don’t care and won’t teach. There are plenty of good teachers out there, most are not allowed to do their jobs.
In China, going to school is not a “white thang”.
Here are a couple of points:
1. Federal spending on education is a waste of time and money. Education is run at the local level and that is where you need the money.
2. Canada has relatively good scores across the board and they have as diverse and urban a population as we do. What do they do that we don’t?
Chicoms got no DOE.
Are there teacher’s unions in China? Is China over run by illegal immigrants that can’t speak Chinese?