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Re:U.S. Team Wins First Place at International Math Olympiad by BigDaddyD on Thursday August 04, 2016 @08:18AM (#12224979)
If you look at the list of winners. Many of them come from authoritarian countries. I have no doubt that the Chinese government actively aids its competitors with great incentives and probably a few questionable practices.
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Re:U.S. Team Wins First Place at International Math Olympiad by 794CD01 on Thursday August 04, 2016 @11:28AM (#12226162)
As long as they're not cheating, what's the problem? Is providing great incentives to students who excel academically somehow a bad thing?
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Re:U.S. Team Wins First Place at International Math Olympiad by BigDaddyD on Thursday August 04, 2016 @05:01PM (#12228455)
I'm just saying the Chinese care way more about their image than Americans. So it should come as no surprise when they are more aggressive towards winning these awards. The American government has better ways to spend taxpayer money.
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Re:U.S. Team Wins First Place at International Math Olympiad by 794CD01 on Friday August 05, 2016 @11:12AM (#12232908)
Why is winning the math olympiad "about their image" and not about academic excellence or even just the spirit of competition? And how is buying tanks the military tells congress they don't need really a better use of money than helping children excel in math?
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