Stupid in America: Why your kids are probably dumber than Belgians [news item]

[AristotleBC]

My HS was absolutely dismal


The fruits that come from free competition are needed in the school system

 

[H_T_]

fuck other countries. they suck.

 

[gjohnson5]

Privatizing schools is a horrible idea. In some european countries , the govt is socialist. People pay 70% of thier income in taxes , but they have prepaid healthcare , legal and schooling.

 

[gjohnson5]

And those same stupid kids, become stupid adults.

Who vote for someone stupid like George W Bush.

Vicious cycle.

LOL , those stupid kids end up stupid Presidents of the United States

 

[Spanky11]

Privatizing schools is a horrible idea. In some european countries , the govt is socialist. People pay 70% of thier income in taxes , but they have prepaid healthcare , legal and schooling.

out of interest, which Socialist euro countries pay 70%?

I live in one of the highersty taxed countries, yet I pay only 40%,. and healthcare, schools, etc is free, so which country pays 70%?

 

[Hiatussin]

lol no shit. American public HS is a joke and because of this American private high schools are shortcutting themselves too since they´re already "that much better". In Holland/Belgium there is actually a reasonably smooth shift from a good (even if still public) HS to college, its not like you start studying for the first time there right away it builds where HS left

America has some of the best universities, the top 5, top 10 of them or so, but the median and average university are total shite too.

My medical faculty would rate at least 5th in the world for theory (some say first) and 20th for practise or something. the workload and time pressure are not huge but a great deal of independance is demanded. you can´t bother your professor with questions. he has too many students for that. There are barely any papers to hand in or experiments to do.

"here are the books *wheelbarrow* see you in six months", to draw a hyperbole. testing happens orally in a construction line fashion. 2 minutes to three per student max. Professor tells you to stop and leave once he has his mind made up of what your score will be. You cant advance to the next year before you have passed all the subjects, and 2 strikes and you´re out, the state doesn´t help you anymore. I pay 500 euros a year tuition and the belgian state pays the uni 15000 euros a year to educate me.

Take any uni with a budget of 15500 euros per student per year and their graduates will look RETARDED compared to ours. I bet they spend some less money on the students in the humanities and more on science and medicine though, just since you need more stuff.

I can give you an example there are rooms in this town without personnell that I can just go to and there are prepared human carcasses on tables to study anatomy. they´re heavily treated for conservation and some have been lying there for like 5 years.
I´m sure most schools waste time and money on this by being all clean and PC about it

 

[Hiatussin]

This is what is happening in the USA and EU. polarisation. public education is slowly getting shittier here too, with smart people who can afford it in superior private schools.

You guys are just ahead on us.

 

[Razorguns]

for real fun. Test those belgium kids vs kids in an inner-city school.

You'll have to invent a word for 'stupider than stupid'.

Then americans will realize we have so many ghettos, welfare moms and gangs. Plus a nice racial insight into that if u want to dwell further in it.

 

[redguru]

And people wonder why I am so glad I had a parochial education.

 

[thelion2005]

we get bombed with too much extra information at school back home. So, all the time that a lets say, 8th grader from Macedonia is gonna come to USA, he/she is placed at a higher grade cause we already covered that material

Time for you to start taking classes towards BA.
Oakland U?
Wayne State?