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Google Blogger: Vietnamese HS Students Excelling At CS
An anonymous reader writes "A Google engineer visiting Vietnam discovered a large portion of Vietnamese high school students might be able to pass a Google interview. According to TFA (and his blog), students start learning computing as early as grade 2. According to the blogger and another senior engineer, about half of the students in an 11th grade class he visited would be able to make through their interview process. The blogger also mentioned U.S. school boards blocking computer science education. The link he posted backing up his claim goes to a Maryland Public Schools website describing No Child Left Behind technicalities. According to the link, computer science is not considered a core subject. While the blogger provided no substantial evidence of U.S. school boards blocking computer science education, he claimed that students at Galileo Academy had difficulty with the HTML image tag. According to the school's Wikipedia page, by California standards, Galileo seems to be one of the state's better secondary schools."
It's more about dumbing down the curriculum so they can justify moving the jigs onto higher grade levels and out of the schools more quickly. Welfare minority kids are expensive, even more so when they're held back multiple times having to re-take the same grade over and over; generally being a drain on taxpayer and other educational resources.
Asian kids, however, are still stuck with the all-manual slide-rule mentality. They would be great for performing tedious ballistics calculations by hand(a job held by white women) in the WWII era, but they are poor at thinking "outside the box" and would be spending most of their time stealing your corporate IP and handing it over to their motherlands.
It's more about dumbing down the curriculum so they can justify moving the jigs onto higher grade levels and out of the schools more quickly. Welfare minority kids are expensive, even more so when they're held back multiple times having to re-take the same grade over and over; generally being a drain on taxpayer and other educational resources.
Asian kids, however, are still stuck with the all-manual slide-rule mentality. They would be great for performing tedious ballistics calculations by hand(a job held by white women) in the WWII era, but they are poor at thinking "outside the box" and would be spending most of their time stealing your corporate IP and handing it over to their motherlands.
someone had to say it. My woman can't think outside the box for shit. Women and Asians man, what losers.
Today's US high school students are fed politically correct subjects like Islam (which is *very* anti-scientific thanks to the theories of Al Ghazali). Citations:
http://news.yahoo.com/texas-public-school-students-don-burqas-learn-muslim-063126528.html
http://www.cbn.com/cbnnews/460652.aspx
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cvMIBWoR18
Anyone who knows anything about abrogation knows that Islam is an evil ideology, racist and certainly not a religion of peace. However, if we overlook that fact for a moment what is very significant is the fact that all other religions are pretty much banned from most mainstream schools (certainly Christianity and Judaism are). So you ought to ask yourself, why is Islam being pushed in US schools? Besides the obvious answer, because Islamists (eg. the Muslim Brotherhood) want this, how come the Department of Education allows this? The short answer is that the political Left have an alignment of ideology with Islam - so are indoctrination the youth of America with collectivist nonsense. What they don't understand is that they are sowing the seeds of a generation of jihadis because no one is pointing out the true facts about Islam - it is a curse in every country it touches.
Before the haters start please consider these things: I understand Islam *very* well, and *hate* it as it is against every liberty that free men (and women!) cherish; I am an atheist, no point citing Christian bias (Christianity also bunk just like Islam; however unlike Islam today Christianity way less evil); I have no problem with Muslims themselves, who are generally good people despite the brainwashing they've had in the anti-scientific nonsense of Islam; I'm not from the US, so I don't vote, or back Republicans or Democrats (although the Democrats are far more anti-Constitutional than most US people seem to be aware of).
The US is making colossal strategic mistakes. Warping schooling for politically correct subjects instead of emphasizing maths, tech and hard science is not going to result in US global leadership in the coming decades. US citizens can fix it though - vote out the bastards who are warping your schools. Demand that schools teach and promote Enlightenment values instead of barbaric Sharia. Demand that schools teach more math and science.