And somehow this is astonishing? Give me a break.
I remember years ago being given these quizzes/tests in school by a third party testing company.
We deliberately gave false answers. The teachers left the room when the testers arrived, and we had a free-for-all with them.
Fun times, but not an accurate measure of what we really knew.
They live in a bubble with an iPone as the only link to the world and instead of using it for that they use it to play games.
They are ignorant and have been allowed to like it that way and see nothing at all wrong about it.
For the most part, responsibility is absent in them.
Young people are ignorant? The old ones are too. I ran into a 61 year old, seemingly intelligent man last week. He voted for Bernie...he is going to vote for Hillary because he ‘wants to be free’ and maintain the 2nd amendment.
Ignorance reins.
Lots and lots of blame to go around, complacent parents sending their barely behaving progeny to government schools controlled by unionized leftists with a dream of a kum-ba-ya society voting progressive now and forever! In all practicality, even in the ‘good old days’, there was bias, prejudice and disruption but it was more local and not fostered by a national diktat out of Washington!
More worrisome to me is the essential 10% that are the ‘yeast’ of the next generation. Even with all of these disadvantages, they can use the resources of the internet to learn in spite of the idiocracy of the schools! However, once they hit the College/University level, they find an even greater academia morass of socialism, anti-western culture, anti-individualism than previous generations dreamed possible. Yet, for advancement and empowerment to lead the future, they have to go through this swamp and not succumb to it!
I am an endangered species. I am a conservative millennial who also chose education as my career path.
I teach high schoolers. I have told my friends and family that I am terrified for our country. I have honestly had students that could not identify the United States on a map and have argued with me that socialism/communism is a great idea! I have more hilarious/depressing stories on what they don’t know.
My dad used to say the day music died was when the Beatles landed in the US. I say that the day education died is the day that No Child Left Behind was passed in 2001.
Many people bash teachers on here, but I can honestly say that this is not a direct result of teachers. This is a direct result of tying success in the classroom to test scores. There is a disproportionate amount of time spent on math and reading/writing in elementary. Many districts/states require so much time spent on those subjects that there is literally no time left for any kind of science, history, economics, geography, health, etc. The first time they are truly exposed to these subjects is in middle school. Because of this, they never reach the point of analytical thinking in high school/college and are simply still learning facts. For example, students first learn of the different forms of government in their junior or senior years of high school.
Educators do tend to be a liberal bunch, but I strongly disagree that teachers are government cronies used to manipulate and brainwash our children. Teachers as a whole are overwhelmed, under appreciated, overworked, and underpaid. They are discouraged with people with no experience in education dictating what they can and cannot teach on a daily basis. Teachers are the middlemen left with no choice but to follow the regulations given to them.
there are an incredible number of impossibly ignorant people out there...
myself, I've always been a news hound....every since the Cuban missile crisis...