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Originally Posted by mcgeedo
"America's problem with math and english education is cultural. It's difficult to convince people that proper english is important when the president doesn't speak it."
It was only a matter of time until someone blamed this on Bush :-)
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Yeah, except folks who read the rest of the thread before they responded would have seen that the post directly above the one they just added clarifies that I wasn't, in fact, blaming Bush.
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Originally Posted by Cynthetiq
I'd agree with that in the American culture, but not in other cultures. Other cultures school and education is very important.
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I've gotten that same impression, about other cultures taking education more seriously. It seems like that used to be the case in the US. Schools are different now too. I know my dad learned stuff in high school that I didn't learn until I was two and a half years into a BS in ME.
It's probably something along the lines of the idea that children will take the things for which their parents struggled for granted. I feel like perhaps there was a time where as a country the US was pretty serious about being number one in education, then we went to the moon...