PICTURE OF DECLINE [education]

Burning Platform, the ^ | 08 June 2016

[Dick Bachert]

This is a crisis we'd better get a handle on before it's too late -- if it isn't already!

[The Toll]

This is what happens when you adopt the illiterates of the world and the unfortunate part of your native citizens never have any interest in educating themselves to begin with. The people that created the United States of America are fine, just a little depressed maybe.

[Robert DeLong]

Yeah, and Obama is still thought of as a great President by 50+%. Unbelievable the denial that runs rampant in this country.

[Mrs. Don-o]

We’re in those statistics.

[papertyger]

I wonder how these statistics work out when you filter demographics as with “crime.”

[bert]

meanwhile at the local mosque.......

[Popman]

Bmk

[hanamizu]

•50% of adults cannot read a book written at an eighth grade level

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Well, there’s your problem, right there. “Eighth-grade level” has been set way too high. Actually the level they’re referring to was the 8th-grade level of a hundred years ago. (Check out a McGuffy’s Eclectic Reader-Level 8 if you don’t believe me.) Very few of today’s 8th graders achieve it.

The obvious solution is to emulate the example of physical and mental tests for public service jobs. Lower the standard until you get results that make everyone feel better about themselves.

[relictele]

Coddled parents producing even more coddled children, many of whom became teachers who coddled their students.

School board and ‘educators’ are scared to death of the wrath of an emotionally retarded parent who can’t handle an F on their kid’s report card or a kid being held back a year because he has failed every class.

Ironically, those who pay least in taxes under the archaic, inherently flawed school funding scheme are usually among the loudest voices demanding this or that from public education. As usual, the takers want more, more, more and most of all they want to deny they are unfit as parents and/or that their children are dim bulbs.

[kabar]

Demography is destiny.

[Hulka]

Makes you wonder about a ‘religion’ that requires they stick their stinking butt in the air, in the face of the people behind them.

[KyCats]

**the median income of middle-class households declined by 4 percent from 2000 to 2014**

While inflation was destroying us un the other end.

Yup, the economy is just super.

Well, for the elites it is anyway. And that’s all that really matters.

[umgud]

Culture and demographics have consequences.

[KyCats]

Yeah.

But in a way, that says all ya need to know about islam.

Wall to wall assholes.

[Rockpile]

Expand the Department of Education

Diversity is our strength.

[kabar]

By 2019 half of the children 18 and under will be minorities as defined by the USG and by 2043 non-Hispanic whites will be 50% of the population compared to 89% in 1970.

[Jan_Sobieski]

Education

•In a study of literacy among 20 ‘high income’ countries; US ranked 12th

•Illiteracy has become such a serious problem in our country that 44 million adults are now unable to read a simple story to their children.

•50% of adults cannot read a book written at an eighth grade level

•45 million are functionally illiterate and read below a 5th grade level

•44% of the American adults do not read a book in a year

•6 out of 10 households do not buy a single book in a year

Economy

•According to the Pew Research Center, the median income of middle-class households declined by 4 percent from 2000 to 2014.

•The Pew Research Center has also found that median wealth for middle-class households dropped by an astounding 28 percent between 2001 and 2013.

•There are still 900,000 fewer middle-class jobs in America than there were when the last recession began, but the population has grown significantly larger since that time.

•According to the Social Security Administration, 51 percent of all American workers make less than $30,000 a year.

•An 48.8 percent of all 25-year-old Americans still live at home with their parents.

•According to the U.S. Census Bureau, 49 percent of all Americans now live in a home that receives money from the government each month, and nearly 47 million Americans are living in poverty right now.

•In 2007, about one out of every eight children in America was on food stamps. Today, that number is one out of every five.

•The median net worth of families in the United States was $137, 955 in 2007. Today, it is just $82,756.

[Lorianne]

The chart on the share of black children segregated is misleading. Since blacks are only 13% of the overall population they can not be integrated to more than that percentage (without them living in all in one place).

[Moonman62]

This is what happens when you adopt the illiterates of the world and the unfortunate part of your native citizens never have any interest in educating themselves to begin with.

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Exactly. This is by design. The political class has spent the past 50 years creating a population that is unable to vote against political corruption.