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[–] [email protected] 160 points 3 days ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 39 points 3 days ago (1 children)

In 1996 a cropduster was an American hero. Thirty years later, he’d be arrested for terrorism just doing his job.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

We learned a lot from the green revolution.

We should be arresting people for spraying chemicals that cause health issues in farm workers.

Condensation trails are not caused by spraying harmful chemicals.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Bro, that's like middle school science

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Any middle school subject can be a high school subject if enough people fail at grasping the basics.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Sometimes it can even be a college course. I remember my first year in uni our TA had to explain how long division and unit conversion worked and I was like how tf y'all got into engineering school without basic middle school mathematics knowledge.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

I was prepared for it to be lib arts or humanities, not engineering

[–] [email protected] 1 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

I mean I live in country with a kinda failed education system.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

It doesn't surprise me for college level students to not know it, but for college students in a math heavy field to not know it. Both in terms of how do they pass an entrance exam for that program, as well as how does someone that is bad in a subject decide that is the career they want?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago

Entrance exams aren't actually that common here but they do exist admission is mostly based on GPA and final grades in highschool. What amazes me isn't the lack of basic knowledge (in such an education system) or getting accepted, but rather the decision to choose this professional/academic path when you lack the interest in it.

People are actually uninterested and treating college as if they're prisoners here. I know some people are only thinking about the potentially higher income in these fields or the social status (engineers and doctors are thought of highly in some countries). A not insignificant amount of students here are forced to study what their parents have chosen for them. I believe we have a corrupt system in all areas (political, social, educational) and the economical situation isn't helping.

Usually these kids in my opinion don't realise that they need to change something till very late in there lives. This matter isn't a problem but rather a symptom of bigger problems here.

P.S: I'm very sorry for the long rant I got kinda carried away lol.