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Dumbing Down America: How Would You Do It?
RightSideNws ^ | Dec. 13, 2014 | Bruce Deitrick Price

Posted on 01/12/2015 6:49:43 PM PST by BruceDeitrickPrice

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1 posted on 01/12/2015 6:49:43 PM PST by BruceDeitrickPrice
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Would have to make us generally smart first.


2 posted on 01/12/2015 6:50:58 PM PST by Blue Collar Christian (quod est Latine morositate)
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Public school has decreased the average IQ of American students by over 25%


3 posted on 01/12/2015 6:51:38 PM PST by Viennacon
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Make reading uncool amongst children.


4 posted on 01/12/2015 6:52:03 PM PST by ez (RIP America 1776-2014. Long live the oligarchy.)
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Education for Death: The Making of the Nazi (1943) - WW2 Animated Propaganda Film by Walt Disney
5 posted on 01/12/2015 6:52:14 PM PST by cripplecreek (You can't half ass conservatism.)
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In other words, give the liberals free reign.


6 posted on 01/12/2015 6:56:18 PM PST by Blood of Tyrants (Good Muslims, like good Nazis or good liberals, are terrible human beings.)
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Wouldn’t change a thing.


7 posted on 01/12/2015 6:56:48 PM PST by Vince Ferrer
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By presenting ebonics as an actual learning tool, promoting thug lifestyle as an actual cultural event and by flooding American public schools with illiterate illegals, diverting billions of taxpayer’s dollars into these parasitic spawn that will never contribute to America’s greatness.


8 posted on 01/12/2015 6:57:39 PM PST by Cowgirl of Justice
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The Left has implemented a plan about as good as any.


9 posted on 01/12/2015 6:58:47 PM PST by PapaNew (The grace of God & freedom always win the debate in the forum of ideas over unjust law & government)
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Yes, reading now is just for fags;

“But once, people made movies where you cared whose ass it was and why it was farting, and I believe those days can come again!!”


10 posted on 01/12/2015 6:59:39 PM PST by bakeneko
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Teaching stupidity in schools is just the icing on the cake.

I’d do just what we do in America: pay the media for dumb viewers.
Advertisers pay for sales, smart viewers don’t give them many sales. So media offers news and entertainment that fosters the dumb viewers they profit from.


11 posted on 01/12/2015 7:01:01 PM PST by mrsmith (Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat Party!)
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I think this was not so well written and rambling, but you did make good points.

I agree with your observations.


12 posted on 01/12/2015 7:01:14 PM PST by ifinnegan
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I would remove God from the schools and make it illegal to pray and teach the Bible in the classroom . . . wait . . . we already did that in the 60’s

. . . and we are reaping the fruit of it in 2015.


13 posted on 01/12/2015 7:11:12 PM PST by Pilgrim's Progress (http://www.baptistbiblebelievers.com/BYTOPICS/tabid/335/Default.aspx)
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I would’ve just limited it to liberalism and Common Core, but I don’t disagree with the article.


14 posted on 01/12/2015 7:11:19 PM PST by darkangel82
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Tough crowd.


15 posted on 01/12/2015 7:16:53 PM PST by BruceDeitrickPrice (education reform)
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No.

Constructive friendly criticism.


16 posted on 01/12/2015 7:19:42 PM PST by ifinnegan
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The big tool used is the heavy head trip. Make things so convoluted in order to make the student feel stupid. It even happens in college, when I had a course in differential equations. The first professor I had took great joy at starting with the most difficult example and baffling the student. I dropped that one.
The second time was with a graduate assistant, who would start a lesson with a basic illustration of the principle and proceed from there. That way I found how I got lost the first time. I wound up aceing diffy-q.


17 posted on 01/12/2015 7:24:59 PM PST by Fred Hayek (The Democratic Party is now the operational arm of the CPUSA)
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I’d add stop teaching the Constitution, which they’re obviously not doing anymore. When I was a kid, we had “Civics” class and learned about the Constitution. That’s how I know that when the Congress doesn’t send the President exactly what he wants, the President can’t just then go ahead and use his pen and phone to fundamentally transform the country with countless executive orders. A lot of people I’ve encountered actually think that’s the way our Republic works.


18 posted on 01/12/2015 7:28:57 PM PST by kevao (Biblical Jesus: Give your money to the poor. Socialist Jesus: Give your neighbor's money to the poor)
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You start with the children.

Which is exactly what the left of this country have done for quite a few years (over 50).


19 posted on 01/12/2015 7:36:29 PM PST by CyberAnt ("The hope and changey stuff did not work, even a smidgen.")
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Immerse a whole generation into the shallow pursuit of transitory and ephemeral objectives frittering away their lives trivialities and the consumption of trash. I’ve never seen so many morons. I’m serious. The younger set say the same things, wear the same clothes, and pursue the same inanities all the while festooning their bodies with ink. This is the most self-indulgent generation in human history, bar none. They have no tastes, no standards, no benchmarks of excellence. They’re easily diverted from pursuing anything of value. They’re mindless consumers spending money they don’t have on things they don’t need. Of course, there are exceptions but too few to mention. And somehow the Democrats have everyone worked up about inequities. My God, never in human history have more people lived above the level of subsistence than now. I see fat hogs everywhere I go festooned with tattoos and uttering gibberish. The forces of conformity have never been stronger than now. There is no diversity, no regionalism, no different dialects, no art to mention, with filthy morons and imbeciles making millions of dollars spewing misogynistic lyrics and being invited to the White House to boot. Make no mistake, Obama is the one person distillation of the American people. God help us!


20 posted on 01/12/2015 7:38:48 PM PST by donaldo
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