/sci/ - Science & Math

What the fuck are people learning in school nowadays? About two years ago we had one of our chemists get "let go" (for reasons unrelated to her abilities as a chemist) and since then we've had a string of totally lackluster people apply and get hired (because there was nothing else). People leaving school and looking to work *in a lab* yet having no lab experience.

Are there no chemistry labs in schools?

Today the best of the bunch of applicants we got (all fresh graduates) had an interview. We asked her to do a simple calculation using molarity of a solution to determine how many grams of something dissolved was in a milliliter of the solution. She couldn't answer. I'm 20 years out of my last chemistry class, which was in fucking high school, and I can answer that.

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What is being taught for a chemistry degree? How to download answers to homework questions? No chemistry labs? What the fuck is going on?

What are you learning, chemist-schoolkids of /sci/? Practicing chemists, are recent grads this terrible for you, too?

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