[mattmcknight]

So it's not in a child's interest to prepare them for jobs that pay well?

[rayiner]

But the dumbed-down version of science and math you get in K-12 doesn't prepare kids for those jobs anyway. Those people actually going into science and math jobs will learn "real science" and "real math" in college.

[nitrogen]

That's really just an indictment of the implementation, not the idea.

[rayiner]

Only in the same sense that instances where people died strapping wings to their arms and trying to fly are an indictment of the implementation, not the idea.