Public Schools Produce Dumb Kids

[koshergrl]

You know, I went to public schools in Montana and Colorado. I think I got a pretty decent education.

I remember my final for 6th grade science. We were given a large sheet of paper and told to draw the Tree of Life on it, starting with Carbon, Hydrogen, Oxygen and Nitrogen (building blocks of life), and then going up the tree with the various fungi and lichens, branching it off into plant and animal life. Not only did we have to have the genus and phylum listed for the animal or plant, but we also had to have the common name as well.

In high school, I took Algebra and Geometry, had an advanced English class and also took Human Physiology.

But then again..............that was public school in the 70's and early 80's, when educating our children was kind of a priority back then.

No. You didn't get a good education. You were brainwashed. But being brainwashed, you don't realize it.

 

[koshergrl]

So true...and may explain why criminals like Hillary could be POTUS. The dumbing down of America has benefited the socialist party tremendously, but they still want more dummies imported from third world...and the R party is too feeble minded to stop it.

No wonder so many are socialists, says the Great Walter Williams.


Public Schools Produce Dumb Kids
Do you wonder why Sen. Bernie Sanders and his ideas are so popular among American college students? The answer is that they, like so many other young people who think they know it all, are really uninformed and ignorant. You say, "Williams, how dare you say that?! We've mortgaged our home to send our children to college." Let's start with the 2006 geographic literacy survey of youngsters between 18 and 24 years of age by National Geographic and Roper Public Affairs.

Less than half could identify New York and Ohio on a U.S. map. Sixty percent could not find Iraq or Saudi Arabia on a map of the Middle East, and three-quarters could not find Iran or Israel. In fact, 44 percent could not locate even one of those four countries. Youngsters who had taken a geography class didn't fare much better. By the way, when I attended elementary school, during the 1940s, we were given blank U.S. maps, and our assignment was to write in the states. Today such an assignment might be deemed oppressive, if not racist.

To accommodate less college-ready students, colleges must water down their curricula, lower standards and abandon traditional tools and topics. Emory University English professor Mark Bauerlein writes in his book "The Dumbest Generation": Tradition "serves a crucial moral and intellectual function. ... People who read Thucydides and Caesar on war, and Seneca and Ovid on love, are less inclined to construe passing fads as durable outlooks, to fall into the maelstrom of celebrity culture, to presume that the circumstances of their own life are worth a Web page."

Yes, well, traditional teaching methods and courses have been completely run over by social engineering objectives on sex, gender, race, etc., mas media indoctrination, easier material so everyone can hopefully pass, psychology instruction on the importance of 'me,' revisionist history, and other liberal agendas. The test results vs. other nations bears this out nicely.

In fact, what you just wrote in the OP went over every one of their heads -- that is, if they were willing to put their cell phones down to take a peak at the real world.

All this does not bode well for the future of the nation. The consequence of the leftist take over of the p-schools will be greater income inequality, as the rich get an education and everyone else doesn't. It use to be the p-schools were considered great equalizers...meaning the poor could obtain a good education similar to the wealthy. Not any more since the left took over education from kindergarten to PhD.

It is a terrible crime committed by the left.

It's what commie regimes do. They take over the schools and create a whole army of brainwashed morons, taught to defend their masters by their masters.

 

[Iceweasel]

I went to public school. On what political topics does the OP think he's smarter than I am?

We'll have some one on one debates.

LOL. Thanks for the morning chuckle.

 

[Iceweasel]

I think all of you that are grumbling should get active on your local school boards, donate to the PTA fund raisers for $ for updated text books, and if you can, volunteer to tutor in the after school program.
Watters is funny, but do you know how many people he probably interviewed to get some of those stupendously stupid answers?

Teachers are paid plenty to do that. If we are going to do that then let's throw them off the public dime. Public ed scoops up half the property taxes here. Half. That a LOT of money! It won't change until we overthrow socialism.

 

[NYcarbineer]

I went to public school. On what political topics does the OP think he's smarter than I am?

We'll have some one on one debates.

LOL. Thanks for the morning chuckle.

You don't see the OP taking up the offer, do you?

 

[Iceweasel]

I went to public school. On what political topics does the OP think he's smarter than I am?

We'll have some one on one debates.

LOL. Thanks for the morning chuckle.

You don't see the OP taking up the offer, do you?

Yeah, you scared him off, Einstein.

 

[Onyx]

Most people are morons, including the OP.

It is okay though. I only need to harvest 10% of your intelligence to make you all see reason.

 

[turzovka]

So true...and may explain why criminals like Hillary could be POTUS. The dumbing down of America has benefited the socialist party tremendously, but they still want more dummies imported from third world...and the R party is too feeble minded to stop it.

No wonder so many are socialists, says the Great Walter Williams.


Public Schools Produce Dumb Kids
Do you wonder why Sen. Bernie Sanders and his ideas are so popular among American college students? The answer is that they, like so many other young people who think they know it all, are really uninformed and ignorant. You say, "Williams, how dare you say that?! We've mortgaged our home to send our children to college." Let's start with the 2006 geographic literacy survey of youngsters between 18 and 24 years of age by National Geographic and Roper Public Affairs.

Less than half could identify New York and Ohio on a U.S. map. Sixty percent could not find Iraq or Saudi Arabia on a map of the Middle East, and three-quarters could not find Iran or Israel. In fact, 44 percent could not locate even one of those four countries. Youngsters who had taken a geography class didn't fare much better. By the way, when I attended elementary school, during the 1940s, we were given blank U.S. maps, and our assignment was to write in the states. Today such an assignment might be deemed oppressive, if not racist.

To accommodate less college-ready students, colleges must water down their curricula, lower standards and abandon traditional tools and topics. Emory University English professor Mark Bauerlein writes in his book "The Dumbest Generation": Tradition "serves a crucial moral and intellectual function. ... People who read Thucydides and Caesar on war, and Seneca and Ovid on love, are less inclined to construe passing fads as durable outlooks, to fall into the maelstrom of celebrity culture, to presume that the circumstances of their own life are worth a Web page."

Yes, well, traditional teaching methods and courses have been completely run over by social engineering objectives on sex, gender, race, etc., mas media indoctrination, easier material so everyone can hopefully pass, psychology instruction on the importance of 'me,' revisionist history, and other liberal agendas. The test results vs. other nations bears this out nicely.

In fact, what you just wrote in the OP went over every one of their heads -- that is, if they were willing to put their cell phones down to take a peak at the real world.

All this does not bode well for the future of the nation. The consequence of the leftist take over of the p-schools will be greater income inequality, as the rich get an education and everyone else doesn't. It use to be the p-schools were considered great equalizers...meaning the poor could obtain a good education similar to the wealthy. Not any more since the left took over education from kindergarten to PhD.

It is a terrible crime committed by the left.

It's what commie regimes do. They take over the schools and create a whole army of brainwashed morons, taught to defend their masters by their masters.

Sounds very much like the schools for ALL children in Middle Eastern Islamic countries.

 

[Rustic]

So true...and may explain why criminals like Hillary could be POTUS. The dumbing down of America has benefited the socialist party tremendously, but they still want more dummies imported from third world...and the R party is too feeble minded to stop it.

No wonder so many are socialists, says the Great Walter Williams.


Public Schools Produce Dumb Kids
Do you wonder why Sen. Bernie Sanders and his ideas are so popular among American college students? The answer is that they, like so many other young people who think they know it all, are really uninformed and ignorant. You say, "Williams, how dare you say that?! We've mortgaged our home to send our children to college." Let's start with the 2006 geographic literacy survey of youngsters between 18 and 24 years of age by National Geographic and Roper Public Affairs.

Less than half could identify New York and Ohio on a U.S. map. Sixty percent could not find Iraq or Saudi Arabia on a map of the Middle East, and three-quarters could not find Iran or Israel. In fact, 44 percent could not locate even one of those four countries. Youngsters who had taken a geography class didn't fare much better. By the way, when I attended elementary school, during the 1940s, we were given blank U.S. maps, and our assignment was to write in the states. Today such an assignment might be deemed oppressive, if not racist.

To accommodate less college-ready students, colleges must water down their curricula, lower standards and abandon traditional tools and topics. Emory University English professor Mark Bauerlein writes in his book "The Dumbest Generation": Tradition "serves a crucial moral and intellectual function. ... People who read Thucydides and Caesar on war, and Seneca and Ovid on love, are less inclined to construe passing fads as durable outlooks, to fall into the maelstrom of celebrity culture, to presume that the circumstances of their own life are worth a Web page."

Since the federal government disregards the 10th amendment now...

 

[Soggy in NOLA]

I think all of you that are grumbling should get active on your local school boards, donate to the PTA fund raisers for $ for updated text books, and if you can, volunteer to tutor in the after school program.
Watters is funny, but do you know how many people he probably interviewed to get some of those stupendously stupid answers?

I pay enough in taxes... plus I had to send my kids to private schools to get a decent education. I'm not paying on cent more. Watters? probably 5 out of 6 people didn't know shit.

 

[brummelben]

Says "youngsters" . Doesn't say youngsters from public schools .

Who has geography anymore?

So, Mr. Science, you think not being able to find NY on a map is a good thing?

Lemme guess, public school....

Private schools are always better, they can pick and choose which students they want to take, most don't accept children with learning disabilities, and despite all the most suburban public schools are amongst the best in the country

 

[Soggy in NOLA]

I went to public school. On what political topics does the OP think he's smarter than I am?

We'll have some one on one debates.

LOL. Thanks for the morning chuckle.

Political topics? LOL. He's probably one of those that can't find Ohio on a map.

 

[kaz]

It's all Reading/Writing/Math now...no Geography is taught.

Is that why you can't find your ass with both hands?

 

[Soggy in NOLA]

Can't find Ohio but can put a condom on a cucumber and has read "I Have Two Mommies".

Awesome.

 

[kaz]

I know many Americans have studied there and I'm sure not all of them are dumb

You misunderstand this part. You can come out of public schools in this country and be smart, it's just that the public school probably didn't make you smart. There are a lot of ways to learn. When you take people who don't do anything extra and put them in a public school, those are the kids who won't get much out of it

 

[brummelben]

[QUOTE="esthermoon, post: 15650891, member: 59595"I know many Americans have studied there and I'm sure not all of them are dumb

You misunderstand this part. You can come out of public schools in this country and be smart, it's just that the public school probably didn't make you smart. There are a lot of ways to learn. When you take people who don't do anything extra and put them in a public school, those are the kids who won't get much out of it[/QUOTE]
We appreciate your opinion, please don't pass it off as a fact, since you have none

 

[LordBrownTrout]

They can barely talk using correct grammar. Their writing proficiency is beyond embarrassing. Math.....lol. But yeah, they can tell you about gays, transsexuals , and other assorted freaks,communism, socialism, how to be a boy if you're a girl, etc.

 

[kaz]

I know many Americans have studied there and I'm sure not all of them are dumb

You misunderstand this part. You can come out of public schools in this country and be smart, it's just that the public school probably didn't make you smart. There are a lot of ways to learn. When you take people who don't do anything extra and put them in a public school, those are the kids who won't get much out of it

We appreciate your opinion, please don't pass it off as a fact, since you have none

LOL, not you lecture me to not speak for others while I didn't speak for anyone but myself. At the same time, you did, having to use the term "we." Is that because you actually think you're Queen Elizabeth or just because your dick isn't big enough to think your opinion's worth anything on it's own? You may have a point on that.

Take your advice and speak for yourself, needle dick

 

[Old Rocks]

Says "youngsters" . Doesn't say youngsters from public schools .

Who has geography anymore?

Public Schools Produce Dumb Kids

Yes . A stupid title, ironically .

It talks of national geographic survey . Nothing says that survey was of PUBLIC school kids only .

Public education is failing the children on an epic level

No, dumb ass parents are failing their children on an epic level. When my children were in school, I and my wife, took a very active role in the PTA. And we noted that all the parents we saw In the organization had children that not only did well in school, but were more knowledgable about in other areas not taught in school, because their parents made an active commitment to take the to museums and other places of learning outside of school.

 

[Brain357]

Says "youngsters" . Doesn't say youngsters from public schools .

Who has geography anymore?

Public Schools Produce Dumb Kids

Yes . A stupid title, ironically .

It talks of national geographic survey . Nothing says that survey was of PUBLIC school kids only .

Public education is failing the children on an epic level

No, dumb ass parents are failing their children on an epic level. When my children were in school, I and my wife, took a very active role in the PTA. And we noted that all the parents we saw In the organization had children that not only did well in school, but were more knowledgable about in other areas not taught in school, because their parents made an active commitment to take the to museums and other places of learning outside of school.

The type of school doesn't matter if the parents are not active.