Posted on 03/30/2016 2:45:04 PM PDT by detective
What does it say when in two days a teacher exhausts the ink in his red pen? Since a nation cannot be “ignorant and free," as Thomas Jefferson put it, it perhaps means we face a threat graver than the Red Menace.
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.
(Excerpt) Read more at thenewamerican.com ...
“Don’t worry scro. there’s lots of tards out there living really kick ass lives. My ex wife is tarded. She’s a pilot now.”
This was a stated goal of the KGB.
It’s more that there’s no point in trying to do backflips on a balance beam if you can’t do a somersault on the floor.
It depends on the context.
Two things that I never do while sipping on fine bourbon: driving and handling weapons. I have revised my list, adding posting to Free Republic as it is clearly hazardous.
Or worse, Kant.
But it’s so much fun. Sorry I missed your post this morning.
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