Better idea:
1) Get a bunch of kids to get STEM degrees
2) Place strict limits on H-1bs and fine any company that hires H-1bs for less than the going rate
3) Wind down much of the Military Industrial Complex and employ the grads in more useful pursuits such as the space program, nuclear power, road/dam/bridge repair, medical research, etc.
China? Yes, but can’t miss India that is truly invading us at all levels in STEM. DEPORT THEM! AND CHINESE! Open those seats in college to Americans, Open those jobs to Americans. Otherwise, all is meaningless.
Iran has as many engineering graduates as the USA. The USA is far behind Russia.
“STEM” covers a lot more economically questionable efforts like pharma lifestyle drugs, useless tech BS, and Wall Street quant based financial manipulation .
https://www.statista.com/chart/3559/the-countries-with-the-most-engineering-graduates/
No, it’s much more important than our children learn that our early leaders had slaves, and that men can menstruate.
Seems like a waste to leave the roots and bloom and any fruit behind. Sure the stem makes up the bulk of the plant but let’s be smart about this.
In Blue States, they are getting rid of Gifted, Gate, AP, other advanced learning due to.....yes.....racism.
Very soon, those same Blue States will have their own version of STEM -
Special
Trans
Equity
Mania
How about eliminating scholarships for “social justice”, “race studies”, “queer studies” and every other garbage major, and replace them with STEM scholarships. You want a stupid worthless degree? Pay for it your damn self.
Chinese come here to learn “STEM.”
Sorry, the potential for new STEM labor pool has been decimated by the low-IQ influx and hiring preferences.
Loquarious and juan just are not up to the job.
All the old honkeys are retiring.
It was time 40 years ago...
I know several people who have MBA’s who never really took a college level math class. Accounting and stats, calculators and excel did all the work. I saw the beginnings of maths waning back in early 70’s, There were quite a few in HS who had graduated with a freshman Alegebra 1 part 1 and a biology. English was freshman grammer and then quarterly switching english classes and reading featured books such as humor, native, suspense, horror and writing reports. Nothing deep at all.
Standard STEM classes were offered of course, with hard curriculum but you were not obligated to take those, and the ones that took the lightweight path through High School in many cases went to VoTech in the afternoon.
It was kind of strange. I was busting butt, because I was an expat who was brought up through contracted schools staffed by Brits and Asians. They weren’t easy at all. Coming back to the states at my junior year was a culture shock. Hippie wannabes, slack standards and soccer was an afterschool club sport... no cricket either, darts clubs and archery were unheard of, but I digress.
I was fortunate to have been through a rigorous curriculum overseas prior to my Junior year. l reckon the country needed retail clerks, car salesmen, and civil service employee’s. It was weird and it’s only gotten worse with every school day being some fruity adventure and not studious application.
Waste of time absent contending with a school system which FIRST requires a fundamental overhaul.
If those comprehensive moves aren’t initiated TODAY, you can add DECADES to the term for a correction.
Translated: GENERATIONS.
Until then, we continue our decline (the coming years are going to be very, very ugly).
Can’t trust science, only DEI.