Shortage of American Scientist and Engineers

There is a shortage of American Scientists and Engineers in the US according to an article on the internet. With our present Grade school system and Teachers that do not know Math, etc and the fact that Grade schools teachers do not know Math and science how can the students in what use to be junior high know the math and science that is required to go to College and become the Scientists and Engineers that is required for this Country. It always reminds me a School Principal when I ask him why the Teachers do not have to take trig, etc. He replied the subject matter is not taught in Grade school so the Teacher can be dumb and do not have to have the background in Math,etc to teach(ha Ha) the grade school subject. It always reminds me of a situation when the Neighborho0d Ascoc. has a program for 7th graders to write a paper on Government. Most of the Public Schools did not teach or lead the children into doing this paper. It seems like the poor babies had too much to do and what few students did the papers was basically back in the old days 1 grade work. The ones that won and did the paper came from Parocally schools and the instructors told the ( young adults) to do the paper.If you look into our colleges - the ones taking math etc are foreign born students and they are allowed to work on some of these projects since they are not citizen of the US. Of course there is another problem in the US - the Corporation do not allow their working people to learn and promate local people to Management. What is this country going to do with all the problems that we are doing to ourselves. Oh well I am out of the Labor market so I do not have to worry about these personal problems except in the end it could bother my retirement etc. Grade school students really want to learn if they are given a chance. I used to be invited into Class room to teach Math as an outside speaker. This was a 2nd grade class and I would ask if they ever saw the Radar antennas ( screens) and I would say that was a Radar site. Then I would draw a picture on the Blackboard and show an Airplane out a way. then I would tell the kids that they had to wokd the distance in order to see it on the scope and then I introduce adding Subtracting etc to that the operator could figue how far the Plane was from the airport so that the pilot could land on the runway. this philosophy worked and the young adults asked me whether I would be back the next day and I had to say no and they would say you are the first person that would actually teach us something. Oh well We are back to teachers that do not know how to lead the children into learning. enough Said.