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Would it be better to take the money that's being put into hyping STEM and reinvesting it into us K-12 education? Rather than having all of these extra program
by Yhippa 13y ago
Would it be better to take the money that's being put into hyping STEM and reinvesting it into us K-12 education? Rather than having all of these extra programs to convince kids to move to STEM careers, make the current grade school programs more rigorous so that when they get their diploma hopefully they will have been through a lot in their schooling to be better prepared to take the rapidly changing new jobs opening up in today's society.
- mead5432 13y agoI think you are right that it probably isn't a campaign hyping the STEM jobs but I doubt the answer is making those classes "more rigorous" (though it probably does need some work in that area). My bet is that it is not treated appropriately by the teachers. My grade school teachers made science boring, monotonous and repetitive. It wasn't interesting at all. The crazy thing is that it is really cool... So much of it has a ton in common with a fun action movie: explosions and sex. Frame it in terms that make sense and is interesting to students rather than just reading chapter 5 and the interest in STEM fields will naturally increase.