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THE DEMON-HAUNTED WORLD
The U.S. has its own learning system and it may not be as
advanced as theirs, but it is just as good. Otherwise I think your
article is a very educating one.
Not one kid in this school likes science. I really didn't understand
the point of the article. I thought that it was very boring.
I'm just not into anything like that.
I am studying to be a lawyer and frankly I do agree with my
parents when they say I have an attitude problem toward science.
It's true that some American kids don't try, but we could be
smarter than any other country if we wanted to.
Instead of homework, kids will watch TV. I have to agree that I
do it. I have cut it down from about 4 hrs. a day.
I don't believe it is the school systems fault, I think the whole
country is brought up with not enough emphasis on school. I
know my mom would rather be watching me play basketball or
soccer, instead of helping me with an assignment. Most of the
kids I know could care less about making sure there doing there
work right.
I don't think American kids are stupid. It just they don't study
hard enough because most of kids work . . . Lots of people said
that Asian people are smarter than American and they are
good at everything, but that's not true. They are not good at
sports. They don't have time to play sports.
I'm in sports myself, and I feel that the other kids on my team
push to you to excel more in that sport than in school.
If we want to rank first, we could go to school all day and not
have any social life.
I can see why a lot of science teachers would get mad at you for
insulting there job.
Maybe if the teachers could be more exciting, the children will
want to learn ... If science is made to be fun, kids will want to
learn. To accomplish this, it needs to be started early on, not
just taught as facts and figures.
I really find it hard to believe those facts about the U.S. in
science.
If we are so far behind, how come Michael Gorbachev came to
Minnesota and Montana to Control Data to see how we run are
computers and thing?
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