Posted on 09/29/2025 8:02:13 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Elon Musk wants H-1B visas because he says America needs more tech workers. The real reason for these visas is our schools aren’t teaching math well enough.
By law, H-1B visas go to foreigners who do specialized jobs, mostly in tech. Every year, 65,000 regular visas are handed out, plus 20,000 for advanced degrees. A 2023 federal report showed 65% of H-1B jobs are computer-related, but less than 1% go to social sciences.
America’s math problem is getting worse. In 2024, a staggering 72% of eighth-graders failed to score at the proficient level in math, which is up from 66% in 2019.
Why is this happening? Math teaching isn’t working.
When Common Core standards came out, they promised to fix math education. They haven’t worked. Kids are told to draw pictures or shade rectangles instead of just memorizing basic math facts.
A California math tutor named Michael Malione says kids spend too much time drawing and not enough just solving problems.
“We’re going to draw a picture every time we’re given 10 problems with fractional multiplication, when you could do them in your head? That’s insane.”
Malione sees students struggling without clear guidance.
A federal study found Common Core actually hurt kids’ math scores. College math teachers see new students struggle with even basic algebra, saying, “we’re not producing the kinds of students and graduates that Silicon Valley needs.”
Sugi Sorensen, an engineer at Jet Propulsion Lab and math tutor, says we need to get back to old-fashioned basics:
“the memorization of math facts and procedures”
and a careful, step-by-step approach. She says this makes kids accurate and confident in math.
Sorensen also wants schools to stick with orderly lessons, so new skills build on the old ones. Long division and other operations need to be practiced until kids master them.
America’s schools serve nearly 50 million K-12 kids. If we go back to what works in math class, our companies wouldn’t have to rely on foreign talent. We’d have plenty of smart, job-ready young people here at home.
Let’s make school math strong again, so America leads and our workers fill good jobs.
Families in the heartland know the power of old-fashioned learning—hard work and basics first. When our schools focus on strong math, our kids can grab good opportunities without being shoved aside by broken systems. That’s how we build a future for all of us right here at home.
Psychologists and their ilk have taken over US schools. They are more interested in creating a culture of groomed young candidates for pedophilia than teaching important skills.
Cheaper, and they have zero attachment to any traditional American values. They come from top-down societies, so no freedom of speech, no gun ownership... no individual over the collective... take the shot, wear the mask etc.
And they work like slaves and do not expect anything like the middle class life of an American.
I have done math tutoring off and on for many years. I believe that it’s my opportunity to give back to the wonderful country that I was born in. What really amazes me is that schools don’t really teach math anymore. I have taught kids who are in middle level classes just the basics to get them going.
Teacher’s unions wouldn’t have anything to do with it. /s
“Elon Musk wants H-1B visas because he says America needs more tech workers. The real reason for these visas is our schools aren’t teaching math well enough.”
Bullcrap... this doesn’t explain why highly skilled American tech workers are fired and replaced by H1Bs, after forcing them to train their replacements under pain of no severance package.
He’s a liar. They were getting tax credits for hiring H1Bs. He can also pay them less. The whole thing is a scam. My experience has been that Indians are liars too and fluff up their resumes. 1 out of every 100 Indians I run into cannot think himself out of a wet paper bag. They are stuck in the rlonear mode of thinking. The only thing they are good at is telling you they can accomplish anything you give them. Everything is easy. Yet when it comes time to show a final work product it is severely lacking
He’s a liar. They were getting tax credits for hiring H1Bs. He can also pay them less. The whole thing is a scam. My experience has been that Indians are liars too and fluff up their resumes. 1 out of every 100 Indians I run into cannot think himself out of a wet paper bag. They are stuck in the rlonear mode of thinking. The only thing they are good at is telling you they can accomplish anything you give them. Everything is easy. Yet when it comes time to show a final work product it is severely lacking
And those people are imported by foreign run temp companies and they have trouble adding two plus two and have fake degrees but they make the "de verse" hiring look good.
Way cheaper, very easy to control and abuse.
They don't. This is mostly on parents and students. Parents sue because their child didn't get the grade they desired. Parents sue because the homework load is too high. Parents sue because their low-achieving child doesn't get to sit in class with the accelerated kids. Parents sue because there IS an accelerated class. Parents sue because math is too hard. Parents sue when their child insists their wrong answer on a test was actually correct. Parents sue if their child is prohibited from texting in class. On and on.
About 60% of high school seniors cannot work the algebra to solve ohm's law problems. (Three terms with two operators: E = I X R) Those students simply don't care.
Video gaming and cellular phones are creating zombie generations; and, parents approve.
My wife and I live in an area that is a dumping ground for illegal foreign invaders. As of 2023 47% of people lived in homes where English is not spoken. It is likely well above 50% now. Our local school system has students who speak 130 different languages. They spend a huge amount of money on paid translators. Bright kids are basically completely ignored. Reading, Writing and Arithmetic have taken a back seat to politically correct nonsense. Parents have had to send their kids to private schools for them to actually receive an education.
This was formerly a very conservative part of the county which wanted to secede from the Western portion of the county. Democrats solved this issue by flooding us with illegal immigrants and registering them to vote at the same time they handed out fraudulent driver’s licenses where the “translators” picked the correct answers for their clients and driving examiners passed people without an actual test for a few $hundred.
Our schools now charge over $20,000 a year for each student who is signed up to attend.
Everywhere else coding is a craft bound by the constraints of legacy code and a set of libraries created by far more knowledgeable people than most developers and limited by existing business investment in a given tech.
It's these positions that have been eaten alive by H1-B abuse and Indian discrimination against Americans.
This poor education has been going on since the 60’s.
If I hadn’t taken the initiative to learn as much science as possible, I NEVER would have gotten where I am now.
HS was almost pointless.
One not need to read the article. I will some it up in three words. “They are cheaper.”
We recently had a storm in central Texas about a year ago. This is normal in Texas. I had many trees down. I had bids of several thousand dollars to 1000 dollars to clean it up and put it on my burn pile.
Who in the hell do you think I selected?
This makes little sense...computer programmers don’t need to know much math, quite frankly.
I wasn’t allowed to teach math at all by the end. I was told it would hurt their wittle feewings if I corrected their errors.
Way cheaper, very easy to control and abuse.
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Just like the Chinese labor that was hired during the railroad boom during that great railroad expansion. The Emperor leases out his labor, then moves his labor pieces around an international economic chessboard.
Eventually economic booms recede and the foreigner will either stay if he can make it, or leave if he can’t.
Changing current pro foreigner employment will lead to more leaving for a different pasture.
100k for every hb-1 to go to teaching math to stupid public school americans.
Or a million?
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