foreign students come from a Math and Science background, so they are already ahead of (generally lazy) American kids, who in their Ch.11 public school systems, in addition to science and math, learned tremendously important topics such as who John Taft's vice president was, or how to diagram an English sentence, or took French (very important language to have), or took woodworking.

Not saying that woodworking isn't fun, but what I am saying is the US school system needs a realignment to reflect the needs of the workforce.

Also, career guidance is minimal by the majority of American parents and school officials. Most parents are "as long as my son is happy, he can major in whatever." Well thats fine and dandy and makes me feel warm inside, but 150K of school debt later and and still-unemployed kid, well, what did we accomplish.

I also thing the 4-year degree importance is much LESS than what it used to be, especially in the healthcare field, where 2-year associates degrees such as X-Ray techs, dental assistants, etc are making 60-80K a year with two years of school.

American kids are WAY behind their foreign counterparts. More chinese speak English than Americans who speak English. Meanwhile, various circles in American actually create laws mandating "english only" in public. Gee, that is expanding our culture isn't it.



my two cents