USA may be good at Olympic sports...

[renard_ruse]

...but what about the math and science Olympics? You know something that actually matters.

China and India still kick our ass in math and science. Instead of pushing our kids to spend so much time at sports, we should be making them study more math and science.

 

[badbabysitter]

supporting education is socialist.. you damn commie

 

[blobfish]

What a novel observation!

 

[Beco]

...but what about the math and science Olympics? You know something that actually matters.

China and India still kick our ass in math and science. Instead of pushing our kids to spend so much time at sports, we should be making them study more math and science.

Jealous?

 

[kbate]

$90,000,000 contract for winning a gymnastics gold medal.


I think one 16 year old girl would laugh at your thread.

 

[RjThoughts]

...but what about the math and science Olympics? You know something that actually matters.

China and India still kick our ass in math and science. Instead of pushing our kids to spend so much time at sports, we should be making them study more math and science.

We live in a society that places more priorities on sports than math and science. Just look at school district budgets lately, what passes. Sports are rarely cut, but funding for academic pursuits - and I include musc and art in there - are usually the first to be cut or eliminated.

 

[doctor_insanus]

supporting education is socialist.. you damn commie

Every single time I've discussed education with my conservative friends and family, their remarks are always along the lines of: "We need ditch diggers and fast food workers, too. Not everybody is suited for college."

I want to pull my hair out, but it explains a lot.

 

[Celedriel]

USA gets a gold medal in war, terrorism, and imperialism and y'all know it.

 

[Beco]

USA gets a gold medal in war, terrorism, and imperialism and y'all know it.

We kick ass in everything! except getting our economy back on track....oh well

 

[Saint Peter]

Who just landed on Mars? Again?

Oh yeah! America!

 

[Bert Notorius]

What's the circumference of a McDonald's hamburger?

 

[phrodeau]

We live in a society that places more priorities on sports than math and science. Just look at school district budgets lately, what passes. Sports are rarely cut, but funding for academic pursuits - and I include musc and art in there - are usually the first to be cut or eliminated.

Sports bring in funding. People pay to watch schoolchildren play sports. They don't pay to hear kids playing trombones.

 

[Saint Peter]

What's the circumference of a McDonald's hamburger?

Same as my cock.

 

[Beco]

Same as my cock.

Including the special sauce?

 

[Saint Peter]

Including the special sauce?

That sauce does not change the diameter.

 

[rosco rathbone]

Who just landed on Mars? Again?

Oh yeah! America!

I betcha half them NASA nerds are from India and China.

 

[pabloback]

While you watch CNN ( first for the news, we just don't know what it is yet) and FOX (the news as Murdoch wants to to see it)
You will continue to decline

 

[Saint Peter]

I betcha half them NASA nerds are from India and China.

Somebody had to do the math.

 

[killallhippies]

that's what computers are for. who needs brains when you gots electronics?

 

[pabloback]

that's what computers are for. who needs brains when you gots electronics?

Who's writing those programs dumbo?

 

[Bert Notorius]

While you watch CNN ( first for the news, we just don't know what it is yet) and FOX (the news as Murdoch wants to to see it)
You will continue to decline

yeah! I don't watch the news.

 

[killallhippies]

i should be allowed to slap people through the internet.

 

[pabloback]

i should be allowed to slap people through the internet.

Be careful what you wish for!

 

[killallhippies]

i will not.

 

[BotanyBoy]

Every single time I've discussed education with my conservative friends and family, their remarks are always along the lines of: "We need ditch diggers and fast food workers, too. Not everybody is suited for college."

I want to pull my hair out, but it explains a lot.

Oh you're one of them "no child left behind" everyone gets a gold star no matter how fucked up they are warm n' fuzzy types hua? Bleeding heart fuck nuggets like you ruined the education system.

"Lil Johnny is fucking retarded Mr.Insanus!!"

"That's ok we will just lower the standards so everyone is a genius!! HS diplomas for EVERYONE!!! Yaaaaaay~~~!"

No Dr.InsAuns......that is the problem. School should be a ridiculously hard challenge from hell used to distinguish the winners from the losers and the losers should go to a vocational program...to dig ditches, answer phone calls and chase turds. Want better results from education? Stop catering to stupid.....