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To: Mears

Re: “good for a laugh”
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Stupid in America: Students Are So Bad, Professor Can’t Grade Them

Apathetic or even hostile students, dumbed-down tests, often incompetent and ideologically driven teachers, Cracker Jack-box degrees, morally toxic curricula, revisionist history, the new math — education has collapsed in America. And one of the sincere educators, wandering amidst the rubble, recently provided a window into this academic apocalypse.

Eileen F. Toplansky, a social commentator and adjunct English instructor at the college level, laments that a good number of her ex-students were so bad that it’s difficult to even grade their work. She provides many examples of former students definitely not smarter than a fifth grader...

https://www.thenewamerican.com/culture/education/item/22868-stupid-in-america-students-are-so-bad-professor-cant-grade-them


69 posted on 06/20/2018 7:44:39 PM PDT by deks
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To: deks

Interesting article,but has nothing to do with public schools,private schools,or home schooling.

It seems to be comparing education today vs. years ago..

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76 posted on 06/20/2018 7:57:18 PM PDT by Mears
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