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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm generally pro-STEM with my kids, and I was a math/science kid growing up.  But some of the STEM supporters on this thread seem like real jerks.[/quote]

I don't understand. Sure, some people were laughing at the idea that STEM education is just a fad, as if technology is going to be replaced by something else in another decade.

But the truly offensive posts are the ones trying to develop a sociology of magnet kids that involves poor immigrants who, once they sell their first tech startup, will happily abandon STEM education for the holy grail of private school. And the silliness of the post about how rich people all want to send their kids to Ivies, and somehow this is valudated by the fact that Gates and Zuckerberg coming from well-to-do families and went to privates, or something. I say this as a parent of private school, public magnet, and Ivy kids (which I mention only to establish street cred): you guys really don't understand which kids do STEM and why, so you're going with patronizing stereotypes instead.[/quote]

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