On The Big STEM Push in K-12

We are lying to ourselves if we think this will happen

First, I want everyone to think this is going to happen to look at the state of K-12 budgets in this country.

Now, compare that to the cost of fully funding real STEM education*.

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Once you’re done crying or laughing, find some booze or heroin and let that bliss take you away.

We can’t fund *lunch* correctly in this country at the K-12 level, and we think we’re suddenly going to pull a fully-funded, fully-staffed national STEM program out of our asses? Who, exactly, is going to teach this? What, startup wonks in their six seconds of spare time? They’re going to what, volunteer 12 hours a day for a school year? They’d have to volunteer, we sure as shit can’t afford to pay them in most districts.

Oh, and actually learning things like Science, Engineering, and Math requires things like critical thinking, logic, reason, and analysis. In the US K-12 system. How, exactly, does that fit in with ALL THAT COUNTS IS A STANDARDIZED TEST SCORE, FILL IN BUBBLES FASTER YOU LITTLE ASSHOLES!!!! PEARSON’S YACHT NEEDS A NEW LIDO DECK!!!

We have neither concept, nor money, nor real desire to do this, so let us dispense with this foolishness and get back to what we really want our K-12** schools to churn out: unthinking, unquestioning drones who do what they’re told for whatever pittance someone wishes to pay them.

*Yes, I know STEM could give a weak piss about anything but computer programming. We won’t fund science in this country, we only care about math to the extent it allows Wall Street to create even more complicated schemes, and the only engineering we care about comes out of China. STEM = Javascript, and don’t you forget it.

**Our universities aren’t much better. If you take too many classes as an undergrad in FL, they charge you more for…getting too much of an education? Beats me.