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Originally Posted by daverr
why is our education system sooo behind Europe, China , Japan etc.?????
why are we importing "smart ppl" from India???
College teachers are passing students who fail exams/poor attendance , because they need to pass a certain percentage of students in order to keep their jobs.
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Our education system is behind other countries because we insist on passing everyone, it is very hard to fail high school in America. In other countries, the stupid ones are left behind so that more resources can be made available for the smart ones. In India for example, most colleges are public and mostly free, so the entrance exams are very, very hard, only the very smart get admitted. In a country of 1 billion people, even if only 1% graduate college, that's 10 million people.
Why are we importing people from India? Its very simple, our population is unable to fill all the open positions in technical fields that Indians excel in such as IT. Every look at a big company's IT department, its full of Indians, this is not due to affirmative action, this is due to Americans unable to fill these jobs. We need to get our kids more interested in a variety of fields if you want to stop foreigners from taking the jobs.