Why does he love Indians so much?
Why does he want more indians when our own kids can't get engineering jobs?
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So you want him to hate Indians?
I thought he was racist. I'm so confused.
A lot of “our own kids” would not qualify for engineering jobs due to the dismal state of American education.
I used to be a substitute teacher about ten years ago and it was a shock to see the utter ignorance among students. Junior high kids needed a calculator to do simple math because they were never taught the multiplication table! Let’s go Common Core Math!
They did not know the basics. I used to correct some of the spelling when teachers left notes on the board for me. It was like the uneducated teaching the uneducated.
Based on my limited experience - I agree.
We have high schools here who graduate kids who are illiterate.
obviously talking about kids with engineering degrees working as waitresses and uber drivers..and you think the Indian school system is better? 95% of indians with engineering degrees don't qualify for work in the west. Not to mention the ones that do get work here are the top 0.00001% of Indians.
https://iem.edu.in/news-events/real-reason-95-indian-engineers-cant-code/
also americans at tech companies hate indians and regard them as mediocre at best.
I suppose I am just going by observation. I have observed high school students counting on their fingers and using calculators for the most basic calculations.
I have also observed their dismal spelling skills and the fact that 28 of the last 34 National Spelling Bee champions were of Indian descent, usually the children of immigrants.
Not to say that it is genetic, but it sure is cultural. US schools are more interested in indoctrinating kids with cultural crap than they are in teaching the basics.
You write that Americans in tech companies “hate Indians”? Sheesh, and they label Trump as a racist.
Tim Walz thinks students at one school speaking 50 different languages is a good thing. In your opinion as an educator, would that help with the standard of education or basically bog it down to a standstill?
shareSpeaking fifty languages? I would be glad if students were fluent in English! lol. And by that I mean spelling, grammar, and punctuation.
A second or even a third language is good though. Nothing wrong with that.
He didn't mean speaking 50 languages each, he meant coming from 50 different language backgrounds. That's going to be a nightmare, surely.
shareOh geez, sorry I misunderstood that! That would be a nightmare.
If you move to another country, you had better learn the native language. Speak whatever you want at home, but you have to learn the language of your new country or else you will be left out of so much.
It’s also. Not fair for immigrants to expect the schools to educate their children in so many different languages. How much does it cost to hire teachers in all those languages? Or the textbooks?
Junior high kids needed a calculator to do simple math because they were never taught the multiplication table! Let’s go Common Core Math!
Much as its great , and really cool imo to be able to do fast mental arithmetic .... is it really needed as much these days?
The teacher saying "Learn these tables because you wont always have a calculator with you" has aged REALLY badly 😂
Ironically., you'd have much more need for mental arithmetic as a waiter or an uber drive than you ever would have studying for an engineering degree or working in an engineering firm.
shareI thought the point of uber was that it was the pinnacle of the idea of "taxi" rehashed for the 21st centaury using the most advanced technology in all relevant areas to streamline the experience , mainly GPS and online payment.
All the driver has to do is follow the electronic map to the customer , then follow it to the customers destination.
It wont be long before that bit is automated too.
where does the mental arithmetic come in?
It's still more likely than an engineer or college student having any need for their thirteen times table.
shareI can see your point, to a degree. But is there something wrong with having the knowledge in your HEAD and not in a machine?
I did not necessarily expect students to do mental calculations. They could use pencil and paper.But when you are 16 and don’t know 6 times 8, that’s pretty pathetic in my book.
That teacher you cited in your last line was me! I have not aged badly. On the contrary I was taught by teachers who expected us to LEARN and retain facts in our heads, not our machines!
We are a society that is so depended on our devices that people cannot spell without spell check. You may like relying on machines, but I see it as a total dumbing down of society. Just what the politicians want, a bunch of sheep. Have you read Animal Farm?
Well I know three 8s are 24 , so I guess 6 of em is 48 :)
Nothing wrong with knowledge in your head and not the machine , like I said I think its cool , just not as essential as it once was. I write a lot of stuff down so I dont have to remember it, weather thats on paper or in google docs doesent really matter
To quote Sean Connery "I wrote it in the grail diary so I wouldnt have to remember it!"
I havent read animal farm , I understand its some sort of microcosm of society critique and the pigs take over and some animals are not as equal as the others
It seems very popular and hip these days to say "The politicians want to keep us down" I see it time and time again on these pages . Why? dont they want innovative inventive bright new economy?
I see people saying they want to keep us all ill , or kill us off . why? who would collect the trash?
Are you talking about the Great Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina? Some people speculate that they're the descendants of the settlers from the lost Roanoke colony...
https://myfox8.com/news/politics/nc/trump-said-he-would-recognize-north-carolinas-lumbee-tribe-if-elected/
"The Lumbee Tribe has been wrongfully denied federal recognition for more than a century," Trump declared. "But now we're going to take care of it. We'll take care of it right at the beginning."
Was 2016 a century ago? 2020? Is Trump promising them a casino or a lifetime supply of fire water?