• Of course that’s one end of the problem. Another is actually fostering math and logic skills culturally, generally speaking.

    Getting highly skilled people from India, China or Russia is great! But that we need to rely on desperate conditions that motivate people to cram so they can escape poverty is a problem in if it self.

    It also gives mentally ill traditionalists ammunition to promote yee olde “disciplining” through physical and mental duress in schools, which is a whole 'nother buglum bear.

    I’m betting we’ve screwed up by trying to put modern values and morals in school systems that are more or less following traditional schooling structure.

    Rigidly scheduled classes, intermittent breaks, social grouping, yearly reviews, etc. These things don’t foster imagination and interests in students.

    I personally believe in open school systems and making scholastic progress more about individual development rather than shoehorning a group of youth into an assembly line educational process.

    That’ll also benefit immigrants, because hopefully schooling becomes more effective so that they don’t have to experience ignorance, social paranoia, envy and fear by way of under educated people reacting in a gutteral manner.