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Warren Stupidity

(48,181 posts) Fri May 11, 2012, 02:25 PM May 2012

Well sure, schools do not have infinite capacity.

Meanwhile we are something like 48th in the world in terms of pre-college STEM education. I think that is a larger factor than college level resources.

A friend of ours takes in foreign exchange students as boarders. We went to lunch with one of them, a girl from Shenzhen China. I asked her how she liked attending high school here, at one of the best public high schools in the country. She said it was fun because it was so easy and she had so much free time.

We have a serious problem. It isn't that STEM requirements at the college level are too hard.

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