if you're good at math, it's probably you...

Thomas J. Calhoun Jr., Ph.D: our speaker for tuesday's class. it was rather interesting. confirmed my idea about the school system, and its not so great ejumacatingness. according to polls and research and such, few people in the united states are good at math once they reach high school.

so it really hurts kids who want to go into fields that need strong math (and science) skills, such engineer, computer programmer, etc. the CIS field is seriously in need of qualified people for work, and the jobs are only being filled because of foreign employees. My dad is a CIS professor at the university of south alabama, and a majority of his grad students are from india and the surrounding areas. so what are we supposed to do? train teachers better? get kids more interested in schooling? i don't know, i'm not a doctor.

when asked, only about 7 people in my class considered themselves good at math. we have 56 students. and this is the honors program, where we're generally considered as smarter than the average college student. and if we're having math problems, what does that say about the rest of the student population?

we've got an issue, and there's no right way to solve it. that sounds like a math problem. oops don't know how to do that.