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[quote=Anonymous]Forget math careers, acceleration, or specialized STEM work.  Majority of public school students  can’t even meet grade level math proficiency.  Avg proficiency of math in US is terrible: only 12% of 12th graders are proficient and 25% of 8th graders.

I don’t blame the schools though. It is the fault of kids and parents.  The material IS being taught. The UMC are learning it.  It’s the MC and below that aren’t.  In these schools, the parents (and often the kids too) just don’t care and value school.  They don’t pay attention in class, they come late, they don’t come at all, they don’t turn in work, they don’t even do they work given in class, parents don’t answer phone calls or emails, lots of behavior problems, parents don’t follow up on homework and what is happening at school.

In other countries, the middle class and below parents still emphasize the importance of academics from an early age.  It is THE most important thing.  It just isn’t so in the US.  [/quote]

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