I'll make it brief. The focus on, "necessity of, "math and science" in American K-12 education is but one of the Bush Administration's fallacies.

Just because China and India produce more engineers than the United States, doesn't equate to it being a bad thing.

First of all, how many engineers do we need? It would seem there are enough American students who don't need to be told they are motivated to excel in math and science and engineering - who are self motivated - to fill the open positions for engineers. With manufacturing no longer a mainstay of the American economy, just how many engineers do we need here to begin with. Also, we can continue to "import" engineers from countries like India and China as we have been doing for decades, since there has always been a "brain drain" intot the United States.

What are the consequences of putting math and science on high priority? Well my children who attend a public school only have one PE period a week. We had one a day. And isn't obesity rampant in America? What of advertising and sales of all those products American engineers will be making? Shouldn't we regard the creative arts - english, public speaking, art - as just as high priority as math and science? If India and China excel at math and science education, why can't we specialize in liberal arts?

If you would like to post additional Bush Administration fallacies where Americans have been led astray, please post them. I'll start off with the most obvious one - the Iraq War being part of the war on terror.