I just can't help but wonder if they're poorly prepared. There's no reason to believe that kids who like math and science have any better reading, writing and analytical skills than the rest.
Even in my day, the science geeks were notoriously poor at spelling and English Composition, but they could probably write circles around today's youth. This is all a generalization, of course, some sort of bell curve still exists.
Top math and science students are almost always very literate. It’s the mediocre ones who are poor at spelling and writing. But it makes many people feel better to think students are good at only one or the other.
Top math and science students are almost always very literate. It’s the mediocre ones who are poor at spelling and writing. But it makes many people feel better to think students are good at only one or the other.