[AnotherUnixGeek]

few computers, not enough teachers and failing air conditioning

Here's a clue - most of the applicants I'm getting for software jobs got their primary and secondary educations in Third World schools with no computers and no air conditioning.

Guys like Satya Nadella and Sundar Pichai - the heads of Microsoft and Google respectively - did not get their education with computers and air conditioning. What they did get in their Third World schools was iron discipline, rigorous rote learning and a strong emphasis on the importance of math.

Fixing our education system is not that hard, and does not require billions on frivolities.

[dfwgator]

The owners of the country don’t want that. They want mindless robots just smart enough to run the machines.

[protoconservative]

The India education system is for shit. The ones that thrive as contractors to america are good because their parents made them good at STEM, the government schools in either the english or indian tradition had nothing to do with that than provide the warehousing of children for 5-8 hours a day.

Immigrant that thrive in the US thrive because their parents value the same things that 40% of americans value, hard work renders wealth. Hard work in education in STEM renders great wealth.

[Leaning Right]

> Fixing our education system is not that hard, and does not require billions on frivolities. <

I spent decades teaching at an urban public high school. And you are 100% correct. One simple fix would be to offer true honors classes, classes with high standards and demanding coursework. This would cost nothing extra.

By the way, the school district where I worked eliminated their honors classes as they weren’t diverse enough. I wish I were kidding, but I’m not.

[Alberta's Child]

We don’t have an “education system.” We have a system of government schools where education is absolutely the LAST thing the people who run them want to see happening there.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Growing up, most schools in New York City were not air conditioned. My sister went to Bishop Reilly that was air conditioned because it was on the Long Island Expressway and couldn’t open the windows on hot days.

[central_va]

Here's a clue - most of the applicants I'm getting for software jobs got their primary and secondary educations in Third World schools with no computers and no air conditioning.

Undercutting the US work force. Nice. Who said slavery was dead. We just import them.