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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]The best and brightest in the US still outshine the best and brightest elsewhere[/b] but for how long?  Equity is driving average scores down a limiting opportunity for the best and brightest to reach their full potential.  Sorry if that is an inconvenient truth.[/quote]

How do you reach that conclusion?[/quote]

US won the most recent International Mathematical Olympiad...but it's lots of children of immigrants.

https://maa.org/news/usa-first-at-imo/[/quote]

Exactly.  In my personal experience I’ve witnessed:

U.S. spelling bee winners?  Indian-American youth.

State and national science Olympiad here in Fairfax County?  Indian-American youth

“ Lego Robotics here?  Indian Americans and Chinese Americans.

TJ - (ranked #5, #1, or #8 in USA):  81% BIPOCS (primarily Asian/Indian) and 19% white.

The issue here is NOT race.  The issue is: culture.  The kids who succeed have parents with two overarching qualities which other parents lack:

- a culture which values (truly values) educational achievement, and 
- high expectations.

Viewed as a whole, American society is failing to emphasize, value, and promote academic excellence.  Quite the opposite in fact.  America is chasing the fools errand of equity of outcome and attempting to close the racial achievement gap “from the top down.”

We, as a society, had best turn these trends around or we will surely suffer severe consequences.[/quote]

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