Vivek Ramaswamy shared government data on maths proficiency of American students and got slammed.
The only thing GOP Ohio Governor candidate Indian-origin Vivek Ramaswamy did was to share a US government data on how American school children are not proficient in maths. “This is the hard truth & now it’s up to the states to fix it,” Ramaswamy wrote as he shared the Department of Labor data. The data revealed what Ramaswamy has been claiming for a long time that the education system needs to be reformed as school children are not proficient in maths and reading but his argument is always seen in the prism of the great H-1B debat that he triggered last Christmas by calling Americans lazy. The data that Ramaswamy shared claimed that 78% 12th graders are not proficient in math and 65% are not proficient in reading. The US department of labor shared the 2024 data and termed the percentage ‘unacceptable’. “By continuing the status quo of federal education bureaucracy, we’re letting our students down,” the department posted. But when Vivek Ramaswamy shared it he was slammed for his ‘Hindu supremacism’ and ‘American student bashing’. The criticism came from a user who claimed that America is not devoid of smart kids who study hard and pursue STEM subjects for higher studies. They do not party, as Ramaswamy earlier claimed, and work their way through very hard academic programs only to face unemployment as the STEM labor markets are filled with foreigners, the user wrote. Calling Vivek Ramaswamy’s narrative of American students faring poorly in maths, though backed by government data, the long criticism included a dig at the IQ of the Indians. “He’s telling you that American STEM grads deserve that because why? Because Indians are smarter? Nope – on average they have 77 IQs (meaning they can’t do arithmetic, for actual math of any kind). Compare top American students with top Indian students and you’ll find they are competitive with each other. In fact, American STEM students and CS grads in particular outperform Chinese and Indian students on many metrics,” the person wrote.
