Science is very much so encouraged. Even in poor areas.

The issue is lack of caring, which just keeps getting worse and worse over time. Science was a huge thing in my school in a poor area, and guess what? Nobody cared! They tried so hard to get kids interested in science and no one at my school cared. We had a robotics club in middle school, we even went to a college to learn about the programs available there and to compete and experience a robotics competition. There were young kids and college students.

Our school had a dinky ass pathetic robot because 4/5 people that joined literally only joined for the free food. Only 2 members showed up for the competition, one of them being me, and the other person ended up dropping our robot completely breaking it and not giving a single fuck about it. We couldn’t compete because of that. I spent hours working on a presentation on how we (and by we I mean JUST ME) designed the robot and the reason we went for the design and ya know what? It was embarrassing showing up to a competition with a broken robot and only 1 member. I tore up the presentation, threw the busted bot in the trash and asked my teacher if we could just go look around and that’s what we did for the rest of the competition.

It’s a lack of caring from kids. Science is very much encouraged. With each generation kids just don’t give a shit about anything unless it feeds their ego.