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by jamesTee49 923 days ago
USA elementary, middle and high school eductions are just plain terrible. Instead of learning useful technical skills needed in job market, they decided to do social agenda like critical race theory, very questionable history syllabus (especially on WW2), dumbing down math at least 3 years behind typical math syllabus in Asia, single language (if foreign/secondary language, useless in reallife but just good enough to score A in written exam). Heck even Havard to inflationary As with 40% of the class score one. This is why USA needs immigrants especially Chinese and Indians. Their core populations are truly dumb. Now that China and India actively stopping their smarts going over, I am wondering next gen smart immigrants probably coming from ganglands in South Ameticas or maybe fundamentalists from Middle Easts. Imagine this groups of people will run the trillion dollars economy and debts, fly F35, and operating nukes. It is gonna be scary for Americas in 2050 onwards.
2 comments

1. I would argue that "useful technical skills" are not the goal of middle- or highschools.

2. What does a typical math syllabus look like in "Asia"? It's a big contintent with billions of people.

3. I'm sure there are plenty of idiots everywhere, but a "truly dumb" core population seems a bit rude and frankly wrong.

4. "Ganglands" in South Americas. Middle Eastern fundamentalists. Please take this Trump speak elsewhere.

Very few school systems implemented any actual critical race theory in their syllabi. Your other points may still stand, but CRT has been misrepresented in the media at best, and at worst has become a dog whistle (for certain groups) for anything in the education system that challenges a white supremacy narrative. Certain media outlets coughFOXcough have latched on to CRT and misapplied it to topics which already were in the syllabi, such as civil rights history, the leadup to the civil war, race riots and lynchings, voter suppression, institutional racism, etc.