Posted on 06/10/2016 8:49:59 AM PDT by Lorianne
A population of illiterate, non-thinking morons can’t possibly obtain good paying jobs. This country spends $12,000 per public school student per year on education and this is the outcome? The factual data presented below paints a picture of an empire in rapid decline. We are too far gone. No amount of money or presidential election is going to change this course. We chose this path in the 1960s and now we will reap the consequences.
Education
•In a study of literacy among 20 ‘high income’ countries; US ranked 12th
•Illiteracy has become such a serious problem in our country that 44 million adults are now unable to read a simple story to their children.
•50% of adults cannot read a book written at an eighth grade level
•45 million are functionally illiterate and read below a 5th grade level
•44% of the American adults do not read a book in a year •6 out of 10 households do not buy a single book in a year
Economy
•According to the Pew Research Center, the median income of middle-class households declined by 4 percent from 2000 to 2014.
•The Pew Research Center has also found that median wealth for middle-class households dropped by an astounding 28 percent between 2001 and 2013.
•There are still 900,000 fewer middle-class jobs in America than there were when the last recession began, but the population has grown significantly larger since that time.
•According to the Social Security Administration, 51 percent of all American workers make less than $30,000 a year.
•An astounding 48.8 percent of all 25-year-old Americans still live at home with their parents.
•According to the U.S. Census Bureau, 49 percent of all Americans now live in a home that receives money from the government each month, and nearly 47 million Americans are living in poverty right now.
•In 2007, about one out of every eight children in America was on food stamps. Today, that number is one out of every five.
•The median net worth of families in the United States was $137, 955 in 2007. Today, it is just $82,756.
Meanwhile, Hillary is ‘fighting for you’ when she should be fighting to stay out of prison. She yaps about the women and how she’s going to raise them up when there’s no level to which they could be raised.
Many will not notice the $12,000 jacket she’s wearing while she’s bemoaning the plight of women and the middle class, which her boss, Hussein Obama, has been furiously destroying their nation, lives and economy.
Yep. Flood the nation with iliterate immigrants in their native language and what do you expect? They remain illiterare and they severely handicap their children.
Thanks Ted Kennedy. Burn in hell you putrid evil SOB.
Everyone knows that money goes towards administration costs, overhead and non-classroom related expenses. To describe it as X amount of dollars per student is ridiculous.
Great Work Department of Education!!
Great post. Thanks for doing the work.
Most black and Hispanic kids are doomed from the get go. I have no clue how to fix this short of taking all of their kids at birth and raising them in Christian orphanages.
This endless self-sustaining viscious cycle appears uncurable. Really heart braking.
I thank the Lord God for passing that cup from me.
By 2060 non-Hispanic whites under 18 will be 36% of the population Blacks will be 13% and Hispanics 34%. Minorities will comprise 64% of those under 18.
Since blacks are only 13% of the overall population they can not be integrated to more than that percentage (without them living in all in one place).
Faulty logic. The chart shows that 74% blacks attend schools that are 50% to 100% non-white. 38% attend schools that are 90 to 100% minority. This reflects the fact that blacks live in concentrated de facto segregated areas, by choice or for economic reasons. Generally, the schools are poorer with less talented teachers. The black students come mainly from single parent households. They have a high dropout rate. These combine to make them poorer and more dependent upon government. Their neighborhoods are crime-ridden and there is a lack of jobs. Our cities are tinder boxes waiting to explode.
Being only 14% of the under 18 demographic, you would expect them to be attending schools that reflect their share of the total population, i.e., they would be a minority at most schools. The reality is that they are living in ghettos and are just as segregated as when we had de jure segregation. This is what the data show.
6 out of 10 households do not buy a single book in a year
I...I...I would go through such horrendous withdrawals if I couldn’t buy my books....I...no..just no...even thinking about it...(shudder)...
LOLZ. But haz can vote democrat LMFAO
We moved from a home in the country to one in town about two blocks from the library. It has been delightful for my daughters-Linda the librarian was their first friend in our new town.
Reading is truly one of life’s greatest pleasures.
Demographics. Reality is not PC in the least.
Ultimately we chose this path when the 17th and 19th amendments were ratified. The 17th eliminated the possibility of ultimate defense against the 19th.
I’m a teacher in a gov’t identified poverty school district. I teach a self contained special needs class of kindergarten- 3rd grade kids. It is a majority, probably 97% minority, African American district. There is a private academy in the same town. A few of my thoughts:
* Many children come from homes where they are raising themselveslves.
* They have multiple siblings when mom can’t care for even one.
* some come to school as if they have been living in the forest alone. They know nothing.
* parents expect the schools to basically raise their kids.
* throw in massive behavior problems, children who are often violent, many immigrants coming into the schools not knowing any English. And the day is spent on behavior that every year gets more out of control & more accepted by an administration that wants the daily attendance money & doesn’t want angry parents.
* Teachers who aren’t qualified & teachers doing ridiculous multi page lesson plans that are for show, learning ridiculous “ New” ways to teach math & reading.
* when people point to Finland as to what to aspire to it makes me laugh. A small, homogenous country where people take education seriously & the teachers are rigorously educated.
I have signed off, as a certified teacher, on several home school families. They are doing wonderful things and I have nothing but respect for them.
What happened to the time when people, like my mother in love, came to Ellis Island from Italy when she was 17 or 18? There were no special programs..... she got a job,learned English & is a proud American & a vital part of the community.
I only predict that public schools will sink even further, but know that there are teachers out there who love what they do & do the best they can.
Diversity is our strength! Morons.
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