That is a LONG opening post with a lot of supporting evidence. All you really needed to post was this:
Posted on 03/17/2015 10:25:55 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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Bill Ayers is his heir apparent and Common Core is his weapon of choice.
Its more difficult than what I recall taking in 8th grade, then again I was quite bored in public schools.
I thought that the results of November 4, 2008 and November 6, 2012 amply demonstrated that point.
It’s obvious we need to double down on education spending.
That was my first thought as well.
Education is the problem. Aside from a few hard sciences college is nothing more than a jobs program for unemployable idiots that graduated from college with stupid degrees. Where else but the education industry can a scumbag like Bill Ayers and Ward Churchill be employed? There are no standards for colleges. Obama sailed through without so much as attending college aside from a couple rallies. Phase out “education” for trade schools and technical programs. How many more Ethnic Studies majors do we need?
I think more often it's lenders writing those checks.
Ask 100 random people if the sun goes around the earth. It’s depressing to hear the answers.
That is a LONG opening post with a lot of supporting evidence. All you really needed to post was this:
Wrong use of words. The headline should read, “Many Americans are uneducated.”
American children are not stupid, but they are not being educated as an educated populace is a threat to the regime.
That can and should be remedied on a state and local basis and in the meantime, parents should look for schooling other than government schools, the best being home-school groups of parents.
“Given enough time, many scientists believe that humanity would eventually degenerate into a bunch of gibbering idiots incapable of rational thought.
Or could it be possible that a large segment of the population has already arrived at that state?”
See the _resident, the Supreme Court and the U. S. Congress!
Young Americans are not stupid in the sense of low IQ, they are just not enjoying the benefits of a useful education that prepares them for a successful life.
When they get a better handle on sampling, I might be inclined to believe it. The US is more likely to show a wide distribution of individuals versus other countries showing a narrower band of people in countries with more restrictive admissions.
Well no, and I probably might not be able to pass the tests I aced in college right now. Because, just like this test, I haven’t studied any of them for twenty years. At one point I used to be able to solve a square root without a calculator. I don’t even know how to begin to solve one now. So what?
The fact is in 1912 not many people graduated from grade school much less high school or college. And I doubt few Americans of that time could pass that test.
I’m not arguing that what they use for tests today are better than the old ones. It’s just that asking people to take tests they never had the chance to study the material for is quite unfair.
It least we feel good about ourselves...
(ducks!)
An 8% rate of return? What a relic.
A talk show host I was listening to the other day (I think it was Hannity) mentioned that the Department of Education was established around 1978 and the quality of American education (and by extrapolation its citizenry) has been on a steady downhill slalom ever since.
More government, lesser results.
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