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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous] I wrote the thing about wanting my kids to be able to be engineers if they want, and I am well aware of the kids from a flyover state having been one myself at one of these schools. It’s why the way they teach math in a TT concerns me because I fully believe there are plenty of kids outside a few private schools in New York City who are just as smart as the kids in them and if they are being taught math the way I was taught, they are going to kick my kids ass because it’s a music better way of teaching it. You can boost an SAT scores in math but you can’t fake it in the classroom. It’s why 97 percent of kids in singapore do outside tutoring of traditional math at a “cram” school. I’d prefer just the “cram” school.[/quote]

Why do you keep saying 97 percent of kids?  How the heck could you ever know that? [/quote]

Not the PP but think it's meant to directional. You needn't worry about the kids from flyover America. Rather you should worry about the tens of millions of kids coming out of Asia who will probably all have more intensive STEM training. East Asian countries are a lot more intense than Singapore.[/quote] Asian kids have done more intense training for decades - yet the majority of tech companies are founded in USA. [/quote]

This is more of a reflection of the US' far deeper capital markets and social tolerance of risk and failure. Far more startups are founded by immigrants relative to their proportion of the overall population which speaks to the education being worse overall.[/quote]

China has closed markets tons of govt support and a ton of stem engineers.   And yet they can’t really create anything that they don’t steal or copy.   Why is that?[/quote]

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