According to statistics,Americans are falling behind in Math & Science compared to Europeans and Asians,why ?

Question

Is it lack of : Brains,qualified teachers,or,lack of interest in the subjects.
What do you think ?

Serious answers please.

Vincent G,THANK YOU ! Finally someone who makes sense !

Answer 1

Laziness.
Plain and simple.
Americans have the highest standard of living in the world, and youngsters act like everything is owed to them. Anything bad happens? Not their fault. Someone burns herself holding a too hot coffee cup between her legs while driving? She sues McDonald. Someone gets too fat eating too many burgers? Sue McDonald. Someone does not have the good score to go into engineering college? The parents sue the high school (it must be their fault for not forcing the kid to study right, yes?)
Those are ACTUAL cases, I am not making up anything here.
So, when a kid does not get good marks, well it is the fault of the teacher, of the parents, or the society, and the kid does not make an effort. What is the point? Studying is a waste of time, and it is much better to spend time partying, taking drugs and drinking booze, right?
Meanwhile, most of manufactured goods come from China and India, and at this rate, most scientists and engineers and MD's will come from outside of the US of A pretty soon as well.
Unless US kids start making an effort, instead of putting their homework for other people to answer for them on Yahoo Answers.

(Just look how kids write these days, there is an example right above my answer. "r" for "are", "u" for "you" and so on. It is 2 extra letters, for crying out loud, and kids are so lazy they won't even spell right? SHAME!)

Answer 2

For some reason, there seems to be a long-standing tradition in the US of pride in illiteracy. Add to that the two, going on three, generations of teachers who have been taught that they can teach things they don't understand themselves. Throw in the myriads of psychologists and counselors who believe that discipline is detrimental to the fragile ego of the child. Top it off with foreign scorn of American achievements. Few can survive this deluge of poultry fecal matter, but some do, at incredible emotional if not physical cost. Those few have provided the world with benefits on which it might be wise to reflect.

Actually, take away the American bashing, and other countries have essentially the same problems.

Answer 3

How can i put this, kindly ,.. where Fat & Lazy and Spoiled ,.. we probally go to school the least amout of hours a week the n the rest of the modern world,. , we put almost no real brain - power into fixxing our nations schools,. and if you school is like most ,. i'm sure you can look around and see for yourself , it's National disgrace ,. that our Schools are in the shpe that they are, a Nation that does not teach the children , Has No future,. Sorry ,. but you asked ,... lol,...by the way ,.. did u spot the mis-spelled word .

Answer 4

perhaps you purely hear of those distant places little ones triumphing awards because of the fact there are so few little ones in those international places who've the opprotunity to attend a good college that it is going to become information.. the place as right here in united statesa. college is avaliable to each newborn and because they're so complete and each so often over crowded you have little ones who win those awards even though it is so often and a super type of that it is not information anymore... i comprehend that they do win those Awards right here, however the story isn't as exciting to hearken to that a center type American gained this type of staggering award because it incredibly is to hearken to a pair of recent child from a third international u . s . a . triumphing an analogous award. think of approximately it..

Answer 5

Because Americans just wanna have more fun. When the weather is 85 degrees here in Florida and the water is warm, the last thing I want to do is homework!

Answer 6

Because perhaps they think they are the greatest. Rich people are tend to be more lazy.

Now, look at China. They teach American University materials in junior high schools.

Answer 7

with the 5 hours of patriotism classes and 2 hours of US geography each day there`s little time to learn anything else

Answer 8

Americans don't use SI units (kg - m - s - A - system)
They always have to make a lot more calculation.
That takes precious time.

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Answer 9

X-Box

Answer 10

They think everything is in the bible. It was only when they finished 10 years of bible study they realised this wasn't true.