Stupid in America

Stupid in America

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[dB Funky]

More Fox-feuled, Tea-Paranoid, delusions, please? We just don't get enough about the coming Obama World Order. Now, *that's* entertainment.

[dB Funky]

It's easy to poop on teacher's unions (and unions in general). But one thing seems sure: 30ish years ago, when America's teacher's unions were strong and the public education system was properly funded, children were being properly educated, as American social mobility arched *upward*.

[dB Funky]

It's true, but there's a reason for this recent demise: America has been minimizing and even vilifying intellectuals and professional educators for nearly two generations, as our once grand and effective public education system has been defunded and privatized. Result: the incarceration industry has been one of the primary beneficiaries.

[William Cooper]

The only reason America students test as well as they do, is that they also use home schooled students answers to boost the score levels.

[William Cooper]

The teacher's union is nothing more than a communist propaganda machine whose primary goal is to change student's political and social views of students to make them ready for the one world government to come. It isn't important for students to be smart, but it is for them to not question authority...even bad authority. When the schools get more money, they build fantastic sports complexes, buildings and buses. Money doesn't go into better training, just better stuff.

[22millhous]

Good luck with changing the unions. Their usefulness has long been extinct. Their now the archaic institution that lingers on, blocking any type of reforms by standing behind a wall of "B...b...but the children!!" hyperbole. I have yet to find a public school teacher who has a legitimate resolution to our children's education crisis, other than "tax more and spend it on schools". 

[22millhous]

I think the biggest problem is the overinflated sense of self-worth that we American's have. That goes for government policy-makers, teachers union representatives, and the parents.

[Manuel Solares]

I am from from a third world country in central America. and I am surpise many Kids dont have any Idea anout Geography. If you say for Example I am from Ecuador, they ask u if u speak Ecuadorian. Soo even their math level in high School is equal the one I took in Seven grade...I quess Universities are excellent...but General schools just sucks

[JustMeNoOther]

This is happening around the world, more or less, but this is happening.