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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Focusing on sports instead of homework is not a good long term bet.
Specifically for math, American students are falling way behind.  Our students are struggling because THEY DON'T DO ENOUGH MATH HOMEWORK.  Sorry, but the average learner doesn't learn math without practicing math problems over and over.
And the top 20-40 income earning jobs in America are all math based.  
I have 4 kids and the only ones getting enough math homework are in the highest level math classes.  Schools are letting average learners slide by without really learning algebra, geometry and pre-calc.

For most kids that 3 hours/day spent in sports ain't gonna pay the bills for the rest of their life.  Hard academic skills will.

https://abcnews.go.com/Lifestyle/wireStory/college-students-struggling-basic-math-professors-blame-pandemic-102823782

https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/nri/work/america-desperately-needs-people-who-are-good-at-math/articleshow/103980837.cms?from=mdr[/quote]

I respectfully disagree.  We've just flooded the market with kids who compute worse than the computers do and they are all competing for the same jobs.  Market forces will drive those salaries down.  The skills that will continue to be in demand will include executive functioning, interpersonal, emotional control, logical reasoning, and creativity.  Solving equations, not so much.  .....I'm a scientist and we use computers for much of our math.  We also outsource code writing.  I can only imagine other industries are doing exactly the same.  It's cheaper to get really smart folks in India to do this type of work, so the jobs are going there. [/quote]

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