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  • the real problem in the American public education system? I would answer that, but it would be too "politically incorrect".

  • If I had to choose between only two careers, both paying the same salary: Teaching kids or draining septic tanks. I would choose draining septic tanks. I could not imagine spending 8 hours a day trying to co-exist with some of the brats that are out there.

  • to be fair though, no other countries have to debate over science and evolution vs religious dogma!

    so of course you're going to come off looking stupid! you ARE stupid!

  • "i think it's something with the school. I don't think we're stupid" 6:00 , Indian girl is a smokeshow, she shouldn't worry she will marry a smart rich guy..or become a stripper.

  • What's going on? That moustache is going on!

  • In my country, its the parents' responsibility to make sure he/she learns...not the teachers. In the states, they blame everyone else.

  • Brazil has very little money put into education. I studied in American from ages 8 to 14 (third grade to eight grade) and I have to say Brazil is a lot harder and I got my ass kicked discipline wise, but unfortunately it has the same result as in the US. Public school sucks in both countries.

  • the govt. wants us to be stupid. they've got all of us right where they want us. they want us to be stupid, ignorant, and obedient without question! thank god for the internet, that's all i have to say about that....

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  • ,,my local public schools are a joke..

    =/

  • Well, like George Carlin said. This country doesn't want smarter people. They want people who dumb but smart enough to know how to run the machine.

    They can do better. They just don't want to.

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  • @2ppvoxx Actually societal is a word. Definition: Of or relating to the structure, organization, or functioning of society. Miarocks uses the correct spelling and usage of the word. You in fact, are the dumbass. You just got schooled by an American.

  • "The system is stupid." She is correct.

  • when i was in high school i passed 80% of my finals and i never studied never did my home work never did assignments listened to my ipod

  • @TheHONKYLIPS clearly its a problem with the mentality of the kids these days

  • Lmfaoo u americans are sooooooo fuking DUMB!! Mentally and physically....!!!!!!!!

  • @Diesel3865 Nobody can be physically dumb. I question the pedestal you prop yourself up on.

  • wow....wake up america

  • I wish critics would stop comparing US public education to Belgium, Sweden, China, et al. Societal differences are NIGHT AND DAY in terms of language, population size, tax rates/resources, poverty, etc. Chinese kids ALL SPEAK CHINESE!!!! in the typical US urban school district, there may be 70+ languages represented, to say nothing of cultural differences. Stop comparing apples to oranges!!!

  • @miarocks their comparing humans to humans 

  • Well, i'd say alot of it has to do with our society. Would you rather be "sexy and fun," or "smart and boring?" We don't care about intelligence, nor do we care about those who are smart, because they aren't "sexy" or "fun".....and if you aren't "sexy" or "fun", you aren't worth getting to know....sounds awefully crappy, but I feel it's pretty true. My punctuation may be off....

  • whers the parentel liabilty

  • HA! I'm from Australia ^.^ we're 6th on the 2003 international overall test results. 5:52

  • Right! Stupid kids! You don't want to look stupid so blame it all on schools. We are not stupid so schools must be stupid, huh?

  • However, the American college system is the best in the world, and people from around the world come to the US to learn. The standardized tests are stressing knowledge, instead of learning. We are capable of learning, and we produce the largest increase of knowledge and ability and talent in the world.

  • schools say either they don't have the money they need or the parents are helping the kids with their homework.

  • This is why depression is a problem in American society... All the smart people are watching this stupidity around them, theyre seeing the stupid ones are in charge, and can do nothing to stop it, they become depressed, and kill themselves. This, is evolution.. Survival of the fittest.. And unfortunately.. Smart Americans cannot cope with this stupid environment, and die out.. leaving America in an increasingly stupid population...

  • @chrism4n14 lol so true

  • what the hell? my school is nothing like that

  • The country with the biggest army is run my these lot

    Oh mercy!

  • @Ron451991 lol

  • Its called DISCIPLINE.

  • Dumb parents who had dumb kids. No discipline.

  • I would say "I don´t like the most amis" but if I would say that I am a NAZI -.-*...uhhh...amis...

  • @steven1510able okay then, which country invented paper?

  • @gundamfan67 .Paper was invented in China!

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  • @67Zaka it was invented in Egypt called papyrus...that was the first form of paper.

  • @crazytattoofreak Listen idiot, do some research! The word “paper” came from the word “papyrus.” Papyrus was a plant abundant in Egypt. However, the acknowledged inventor of paper was a Chinese. So remember, as far as who invented paper is concerned, according to recorded history, the answer is a Chinese.

  • @67Zaka If you can't speak normal to me don't respond! I don't call you a idiot so please don't call me a idiot. thank you!

  • @crazytattoofreak You're embarrasing, bye bye.

  • After watching these videos, I want to leave this country.

  • 18 and not reading, maybe its your son

  • I get F's in school. But it isn't because I'm a "stupid american". I just suck at school. There is a BIG difference.

  • put the dice away...

  • Shattering conventional wisdom...John Stossel

  • ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha stupid fat Americans

  • @steven1510able oh ho ho i'm american but i'll have to agree with you sir.

  • @endmostdavis okay, which country invented paper

  • @steven1510able HEY! I'm not stupid.

  • The game of monopoly IS a game that teaches capitalism... the video shown and the comments with it make no since... at best and and Miss leading at worst...

  • Well I'm not surprised. I hv more than a dozens friends fm the US and their children studied in the International School here and their general knowledge way too low compared to the asian kids.

  • I find it scary how people believe a child's academic education stops within the walls of a school. All those children go home after school. What are their parents or guardians doing to ensure that children have learned their lessons? Parents must enable children to meet their teachers half way. Watching television and consuming highly processed foods collectively deteriorate the ability of children learn productively.

  • Con't 2 _ I mean, look at the facts, what do you remember about the smart kids in high school? That they got spit on? Beat up? Insulted? As a culture we SHUN smart people with the rare exceptions of Einstein (who still most people don't give a fuck about). Face it, all our kids, and us, are too busy jerking off on the great American dream of being the next Tony Montana from Scareface. Fucking pathetic. Then we blame teachers because the kid doesn't give a fuck - of course not!!

  • @EJNewbury Probably because Einstein was raised in Germany and other European countries before going to America to help out Americans. It is just as well he never went through the US education system.

  • Oh, god. Will all of you blaming the teachers just shut the front door!! You really think that teachers are end all of how we get knowledge in the world, huh? So, if that's the case, who taught the original teachers?? It's a chicken and the egg problem. The simple fact is that if a person WANTS to learn - they'll fucking learn. Period. These kids don't WANT to learn and guess who's fault that is - ALL OF US. We've created a nation where being a "bad-boy" and dumb-ass is COOL! (Con't)

  • @EJNewbury Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep heading....ur comment reminded of this qoute i think ull agree with it XD

  • Most of the kids are not stupid, they are just bored, because they spend too many hours in school and they do not have a life.

    You see? The owners of this country have designed a system where the kids are molded according to their needs, while their mothers are working, paying taxes and being productive giving them the most profit.

    Just like one of them said.

    "I don't want a nation of thinkers. I want a nation of workers." John D. Rockefeller

  • By watching this i lost 40 IQ points

  • EUROPE IS SO MUCH SMARTER THAN USA.

    DUMB SCHOOLS. DUMB A,ERICAN TEACHERS. DOMASS OBAMA

  • @Design770 I hope that comment is meant to be satire.

  • I think it all ends up being o how easy school is now. Or the way we take tests. Like muliple choice??!?! That doesn't even exist anywhere else; everywhere else you actually have to know the things you are being tested on to pass and write down your answers. IDK how many tests I took in high school that I passed just on guessing with a multiple choice test. Stop dumbing the kids down; they can reach higher expectations we just have to expect it of them.

  • Belgium yet, pitch them against a first class school in China!!

  • There is nothing, but absolutely nothing worse than a bad unmotivated teacher.

  • yay australia is #6!!!

  • Woodrow Wilson,sometime before becoming the nations president,was the president of Princeton University. He discovered an obvious wrong at Princeton - the richest students were seldom,if ever,attending class,or taking tests,but they got their diplomas. He intended to right the wrong until he was put in his place - by the parents of these rich kids. Good direction comes from good leadership. Money doesn't lead well,nor does it mirror intelligence. The U.S. follows the money,..and elects it.

  • @MrUltimatemonkey Yes, very, very true.

  • It seems that i, a Finnish 14 year old student know more about American history than an average American...

  • I went to a very small public school and got the best out of education becuase the teachers cared about us, but some students refused to learn, so its not all the teachers fault.

  • Schools fail kids because schools are focused on obedience training and corporate socialization and NOT education or civic empowerment.

  • shitty parenting. we have no problems like this in private schools.

  • @iamozy The average American can't afford to go to a private school, whether you have good parents is a completely different subject than what school you go to.

  • holy shit thats my school i think, in nj

  • @takebackkean yeah new jork ^^

  • It's not the kids or the teachers fault! It's the parent/s fault. If the parents are out of control idiots, the kids will follow suite. I have 5 years of college but learned most of what I know on my own. The kids that where around in my day almost 40 years ago didn't even take school seriously but would blow the kids of today away. The oriental kids are an exception to this though. That's not because they are naturally smarter it's because of their culture and homelife.

  • Google a 14 year old's math textbook from 1900 and see how dumb we have gotten. our ancestors were genius, our average IQ would have been considerd borderline retarded back them.. immigration (from low IQ countries), federally controlled schools, and a lack of hireing standards (affermative action) is the cause of our steady decline..

  • Stop blaming the educational system for your shitty parenting!

  • COME ON, we all know that when you start to film people, they act differently then when you don't...

    If this was a hidden camera, I would be a little more shocked, but SERIOUSLY, put a god damn camera in a classroom, and then act surpised when the students act like apes!?

  • and now stossel  work for FOX helping the US to become even dumber

  • That is not AMERICA , is the U.S , AMERICA IS MUCH LARGER THAN THE US , DONT PUT ME IN THE SAME BAG.

  • @EdyMar77 you must be from detroit.

  • @johhny3rubs Actually im Argentinian living in Venezuela .

  • @johhny3rubs LOL

  • USA is the new blond

  • wow....i want to not live here anymore...

  • lol i have to live amongst these idiots. some people are smart, of course, but overall it's painful. you're, your- its is for possession, because it's shortens it is, I see people write come's all the time, wtf does that even mean? come is? ya, overall, they're (not there or their) a bunch of morons

  • I think we just need to quit wasting our efforts on those who make no effort to help themselves, let our failures be felt. Throw out the kids who won't work, it's school not a fucking social club. And the second these little fuckers get in to trouble send em to jouvie and make their parents pay for their stay. If we don't start demanding accountability we're just going to keep devolving into a more and more stupid and irresponsible society.

  • @fsmdidit send the less intelligent to the gas chambers

  • What really amazed me is the fact that they were not allowed in the school premises with camera's. I'm from Belgium and I can truly say that when journalists want to film inside a school - especially concerning school results ! - they can easily do this. I've been really concerned with the situation in the States. Not only on educational, matter, but also ethical, industrial, military, social and political issues. The future of a country depends on its youngsters, we should invest in them.

  • The school isn't the problem. It's the lack of interest and effort of the students. In my school at least, the people that try do well, those who don't care get horrible grades. Kids nowadays are just lazy and are looking for a way to slack off. They think they're too good for school, so they don't care. That's the problem.

  • @cmarshall497 having talked to people who have been through the american high school system as well as a non american system, it is obvious that the american system is broken. It doesn't matter how hard the kid wants to learn, the method of teaching they use in the US is just bad.

  • Thanks for sharing

  • The problem with our schools is lack of discipline. The students know that they can get away with whatever they want. Need to bring back whooping that ass when they fuck up.

  • @larry1975hu Also as I said above it's probably got allot to do with the lack of enthusiastic teachers you need an inspiring teacher for someone to love a subject and to want to find out truth maybe behind what their talking about, later maybe even contradicting them.

    I found loads when I was at school even here in the UK where some of the content they taught was actually incorrect but it was by finding out for myself I have that view.

  • kids in africa have more knowlegde than the average ameericans... the whole world is laughing at you hahahahaha

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  • @bcroger2 looks like your comment was removed ... :)

  • @torivarnor

    Yeah, but that doesn't take away the fact that you have no statics to black up your claim.

  • pop culture is the problem with people not being able to learn anyhting anymore

  • This video needs waaaaaaay more views. Like millions.

  • Thank you and it is clearly true and also only adherable to those who are more mature and awoken to truth and lies of our government! and those who feel offended by this you guys Are not dumb no you are not ...You guys are just not realizing the things our government has done to us...how they have kept our kids and us in the dark and away from truth...

  • shame, and south korea aint poor stupid americans

  • MAN i wish i was in those classes. i would have got all of those questions right

  • personally i think intelligence comes from genes and of course how they are brought up, and the schools dont help but you cant fix stupid

  • what portugal in 31!? portugal its more coltural than usa and one more ting why usa citezens call the usa america!? WHY? they are not america ican call amexican or a brazilian a n american

  • @WW2GM learn how to spell!!!

  • @mrlopez2681 Oh my god, you are so right! I cannot tell you how frustrating it is! I'm only 13 and there are guys and girls my age that smoke weed, it's disappointing. Some are even in rehab. It's very sad that people know where to get " the best shrooms" and they don't know what a linear or function is.

  • 6:02 how fly?

  • its very simple - it has become fashionable among many kids to be dumb & selfish, that is, a person who just doesn't care about anything or anyone but themselves. It has become fashionable to be "ghetto", to be into drugs & being a "gangsta" & to speak poorly. I remember when this started happening in the early 1990s.

  • Schools are victims too just like the children. The are victims of system that does not work. you know what, the reality is that if you are a student that does not give a shit, then you are not going to learn. ANd the more students who dont give a shit are in a school, l the more difficult it will be to learn in that school. Ive been in many classrooms as a teacher with too many dumb fucks that make it difficult to teach those student who want an education.

  • We need to kick those motherfuckers out. Thats right, i said it. 

  • Fuck you foreigners, calling us stupid. Go join Osama in his cave you America hating terrorists.

  • @Fray2221 Just see your reply you are already representing stupidity, idiot

  • @Fray2221 how the hell is that an argument?

  • The DEA sucks all the money from education

  • Jay Leno's routine is obviously staged. Whoever thinks otherwise is the stupid one.

  • the parents are not only the responsable, the people ask to kids in america who is beethoven and the say: " the most famous dog in the word"....

  • How come no one ever mentions all the fat lazy parents who dont give a flying shit what their kids do in school.

  • @jojothedog1234 Then vent they know something on youtube it's really worrying. I don't think all American's are actually stupid just the ones that don't go out of their own way to find out what really happens around the world and to be fair some do.

    It's just the lack of enthusiastic teachers that will undoubtedly be the problem there I think.

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