These kids aren’t necessarily unintelligent. Rather, their intelligence has been squandered in government schools.
This is by design, and for the same reasons that 19th century Southern slave owners prohibited their slaves from learning to read. Today’s ruling elite does not want a truly educated population. Knowledgeable citizens with genuine analytical and critical thinking skills could seriously threaten the status of the ruling elite. That’s why more education spending by government correlates with less education.
This has been going on for decades, probably ever since the first Progressive movement took hold in the 1890s.
“These kids aren’t necessarily unintelligent... their intelligence has been squandered”.
I absolutely agree. We don’t necessarily have higher I.Q.’s than the average child of today. What is different is we were taught American History, Civics, and Geography. These children are given mini-lessons designed specifically to dumb down the youth of America. Ask a child about the Civil War and they will tell you it was fought over slaves. That is what they have been taught and tested on. Political Correctness has eliminated a lot of information as well. Don’t discuss Japan’s brutality during WWII because it may make a child of Japanese heritage feel “uncomfortable”. Instead, bypass that and just go to the part where the U.S. was morally wrong to use Atomic weapons.