Posted on 09/26/2025 5:25:44 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Much of America’s youth is in free fall, with the only question being why. On every metric, our kids lag behind the world, are abysmally unhappy and unprepared for a life that’s less kind and forgiving than it was fifty years ago. It didn’t happen by accident, and the divided nature of our country means we are unprepared to make necessary changes. Our society tolerates confrontation and excuses, always finding superficial reasons why Johnny can’t read, and why everyone’s so angry. It’s certainly not about money; we spend more per pupil than anyone else.
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During COVID, roughly 31% of students were chronically absent (missing ≥10% of school days). In 2022-2023, the rate dipped slightly to 28%, but that’s still 75% higher than pre-pandemic levels. In the 2023-2024 academic year, long after COVID’s lockdowns ended, approximately 27.4% of students were still absent.
But that’s just the start of the problem; if Johnny isn’t in school, he can’t learn. But what about when he’s physically in school? What are the underlying dynamics that prevent our young from having a fighting chance to obtain essential skills that are a requirement for living a good life?
It takes three things to take a young person and grow him into a scholar. A scholar must learn to think critically, read, write, and be both emotionally and logically prepared to live in the real world. That young person must eventually (with the help of loving parents) decide which direction to strike out into, whether it be a specific trade or higher skills requiring college or university. Treading water jobs that used to be transitional are now becoming permanent, stymying growth for millions because their schools failed them, and too often, their distracted parents as well.
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Well sometimes intentional, sometimes not. But so very often deliberate:
Oops! “stand aside”
Are our youth being intentionally dumbed down? Doe bears sh*t in the woods, is Biden non compos mentis? Of course the communists in charge of our schools are dumbing down our children with curriculum that push social justice, White guilt and the queerifying of our children instead of actual history, math and critical thinking.
They have been since the 1960s.
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The mean score on national achievement tests for 12th graders who are home schooled is not 50 but 72. Hundreds of thousands of students in the sample size.
Eloquent.
Add to the list immediate gratification.
Pre-birth control delayed gratification and immediate gratification were in conflict with delayed gratification dominant, especially in education.
Post-birth control immediate gratification is dominant in society, especially among public school employees.
Indeed. My first, now deceased, daughter was off the charts and is still all time valedectorian at her college where she sudied in the nineties. It seems to me she was what biologists call a “sport” an offspring that does not seem to possibly spring from her parents.
Are Our Youth Being Intentionally Dumbed Down?
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Since the mid-50s when Greek and Latin were removed from the curriculum.
From John D. Rockefeller in 1903:
My daughter is a reading specialist there is very little interest even in title 1 schools to teach reading. It is government daycare with pay. The DEI hires don’t matter either because it is plantation education.
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