• Dagwood222@lemm.ee
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    5 months ago

    After Sputnik went up, there was a giant call for the US to push more kids into STEM. Kids are always a political issue.

    Heck, watch ‘The Music Man’ if you don’t beleive me!

    • afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world
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      5 months ago

      We don’t need more kids to go into those fields we need more funding for those fields. If you want depressing look up what happens to the bulk of people with physics, or geologist, or chemistry undergrad degrees.