Needed: Students interested in math, science

Salisbury Post, NC ^ | February 7, 2004 | Katie Scarvey

[Chris Talk]

I wonder if California's confiscatory taxes on millionaires, or hundred thousand aires for that matter, has something to do with it.

Here in Fla there is no state income tax, and property and other taxes much more reasonable as well.

I hate to see Californians come in though, they may make this the same kind of hell that C A L I F is!
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[Cincinatus' Wife]

Companies do look for areas that favor their bottom line. However, employees will more than likely not be sending their children to local public schools.

[AmericanVictory]

In order to do something about it, we'd have to exclude teachers of math and science from contact with the teachers' unions and hire them from outside the educratic establishment so that they were responsive to parents.

[KangarooJacqui]

Heck, I was always INTERESTED in math and science, I just wasn't GOOD enough at either to enter those senior streams at high school...

[hotdogjones]

My friend who has a PHD in Physics is having a hard time finding stable regular work. The outsourcing that hit that IT industry hit the science community back in the 1970's, 1980's.

The US is loosing of the battle for Science & Tech invovation. It is very sad to see our nations resources being stolen without folks realizing what is going on.

The US won't wake up until another nation gets more advanced technology for weapons. I am afraid it will be China. I saw an article today that stated they are 3rd largest high tech exporter.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

In order to do something about it, we'd have to exclude teachers of math and science from contact with the teachers' unions and hire them from outside the educratic establishment so that they were responsive to parents.

As it stands now, parents need to have their children tutored for them to be proficient in math.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

I just wasn't GOOD enough at either to enter those senior streams at high school...

Perhaps you just weren't given the tools.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Bump to post #20.

[wideminded]

A corrosive anti-intellectual culture exists in many American schools in which interest in math and science is considered "un-cool" and those who display interest in these subjects are derided as "nerds". Nothing coming out of Hollywood or shown on TV opposes this trend. It will continue to be hard to find students interested in math and science until this changes.

[Chris Talk]

That is even better, for the jobs will come into Fla, and yet no kids into the public schools to raise taxes and be taught to vote Democrat and be lesbians and gays.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Nothing coming out of Hollywood or shown on TV opposes this trend. It will continue to be hard to find students interested in math and science until this changes.

A space program returning men (and yes of course women and robots) to the Moon to stay and develop its resources will.

[KangarooJacqui]

I just wasn't GOOD enough at either to enter those senior streams at high school...

Perhaps you just weren't given the tools.

Perhaps not. In fact, definitely not. Alas, that is now Australia's (and America's) loss...

[I_dmc]

Our children face a future where they'll have the choice of paying 85% of their incomes in taxes to support the welfare state (if they're good boys and girls), or being one of the growing number of prison slaves, which will take over manufacturing in this country (if they're not good boys and girls). Now how interested in an education are they going to be, looking at that future?

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Read something inspiring.

MIT's Zuber [Meet the scientists on Bush's Space Commission]

[I_dmc]

Thanks. Had a bad moment there. Wouldn't it be so cool to watch Earthrise every "morning"?

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Earth Rise from the Moon's North Pole View from Clementine of the full Earth over the north pole of the Moon. Crater with central peak in foreground is Plaskett (110 km diameter). On the Earth, the continent of Africa is clearly visible and nearly cloud free.

[macrahanish #1]

Is that a rocket from Tripoli rocket club?

[Gefreiter]

Interesting. I took an MA in history (I saw the light and opted out of an eventual PhD). I had one seminar, half of the EUropean historiography sequence, with 3-4 people form the School of Ed. They were training to be teachers, and wanted a serious history seminar under their belts.

Lemme put it this way: none of them lasted to the end of the course.

In the Ed school as best I understand it, they do mostly group work and organizational work and not a too too much actual, you know, teaching a subject.

And that's where it starts: the teachers. By the time they get to the university, some students are woefully-WOEFULLY- underequipped to be successful.

[Capitalism2003]

2x + 3y = zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

[Piquaboy]

We really need teachers who are interested in teaching something besides how to put on a condom. Get rid of the NEA!