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going to south korea with associate degree? - Page 2

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11-24-2011, 12:36 AM
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It has everything to do with poor quality of US K-12 education.

The irony is that a Chinese high school diploma would be accepted automatically as locally equivalent and a Japanese high school diploma will be accepted if you apply for equivalency, but not the US high school diplomas.

No exception to this ban, even if you are a movie star or a world famous idol singer as this happened to many stars.
So much for Allies.
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11-24-2011, 12:42 AM
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So much for Allies.
This is really about the quality of education, not diplomacy.

The US politicians talk about the terrible quality of US K12 education system and the need to improve it, and they aren't talking BS. Americans and dreamers here just do not realize how terrible and uncompetitive the US high school education really is.
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11-24-2011, 01:24 AM
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This is really about the quality of education, not diplomacy.

The US politicians talk about the terrible quality of US K12 education system and the need to improve it, and they aren't talking BS. Americans and dreamers here just do not realize how terrible and uncompetitive the US high school education really is.
There is a reason why so many people come here and find out that they are geniuses in math, the only language spoken worldwide.

I was placed in second grade when I came here, I did not see the level of math I saw in colombia until I finished 6th grade, and that was only because I was placed in an advanced high school level Algebra in 7th grade.

My favorite subject became boring as hell, it would not move fast enough.

Yet.... somehow, close to 50% of students do not graduate high school and the no child left behind game seems to just be lowering the standards of education in the US.
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11-24-2011, 01:44 AM
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High school was super easy, yet so many students who did not have any work obligations complained that the assignments were to0 difficult. Some even complained over two to three-page papers.
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11-24-2011, 01:47 AM
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I had to put up w/bs arithmetic for 3 years before I was in a class I felt I was learning something new.
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I also think the English classes were a bunch of BS. I learned how to conduct research and to write an effective research paper in college. The four years of high school English seemed to cover the same stuff: poems and literary classics.
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11-24-2011, 02:05 AM
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i took AP English and felt I had an edge by the time I was in college. Not to mention I had college credit and didn't have to take any English there.
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11-24-2011, 05:30 AM
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I had to put up w/bs arithmetic for 3 years before I was in a class I felt I was learning something new.
I feel your pain.

Only classes that ever made me think (that's it just think, not even difficult) were Lagrangian dynamics and intermediate fluid mechanics. Other classes (e.g., composites, advanced mechanics, vector calculus, etc, whatever) were just too god damn easy.... yet people struggled with this shit. Go effin figure. I'd also like to add i went to the poorest and crappiest elementary, middle, etc, schools in my district; district 9.
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11-24-2011, 04:35 PM
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You can barely get a job with an Associates degree here in America. But I suggest you go to a college at the very least because there's possibly no chance that you'll be able to enroll into a Korean university as they have a pretty strict system ( have to test into the high schools they go to then to universities). Unless you plan on working under your father for the rest of your life or somehow branch out after doing that.
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11-24-2011, 06:23 PM
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I really have to disagree there. K-12 is just a joke, that's why American kids always are testing way at the bottom in international competitions. College steps it up a notch in terms of math for those seeking STEM degrees and that's why I think Korea accepts a college degree. Furthermore the big gap in material has to be of concern (Domestic history, civics/politics, english v. korean, etc...).

The great thing about America is that it truly is anyone's game when it comes to success/money making.

There was a study Colbert joked about...American college graduates were testing at the bottom compared to international colleagues, but they were rated the highest in confidence 'thinking' they were the best of them all.
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