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[quote=Anonymous]Do people really say only immigrants are smart, OP, or all immigrants are smart?   I'll say it's a big country.

There are a lot of dumb youth in our country, and a lot of those ARE immigrants and the children of immigrants.

And then there are a lot extremely smart youth, both long time Americans, and immigrants and children of recent immigrants.

I think there are definitely problems with how our K-12 are set up when in competition with rest of the world.

However, it's unfair perhaps to compare our entire Youth in this country to just the elite in other countries.  Because that is what a lot of these comparisons actually do.

Most countries allow an exit valve into the labor market or into trade schools at grade 10, or 9, or earlier, and many countries do not even offer access to High School and higher education for the poor or non-elite, no matter their potential.   As an example; there are millions of kids never seeing the inside of a school in India - so if you compare to India where the US is recruiting all those skilled positions you mentioned, you are comparing all of our youth to only their elite and wealthy youth.

Here in the US, you see everyone all the way trough the end of 12th.  So if 90% of grads in a poor Baltimore City HS can't read well, that's really not surprising, they wouldn't be in school in most countries of the world; they wouldn't be part of this comparison.

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