Wonder Why Kids Are Dumber Now?

[rightwinger]

Too many kids are getting home schooled

Dumbing down of America

Wrong again, dumbass,. It's the public schools failing which is why so many are resorting to home schooling now.
Name just one thing government does that it hasn't eventually fucked up. Just one.

Homeschool

Uneducated adults get to pretend they are teachers

Yet they have all accumulated more wisdom than you. Imagine that.

Look at me! I’m a Teecher

That spelling looks about par for a college graduate today. Half of them don't now the difference between your and you're while the other half is hard pressed to construct a simple sentence. Never mind math, I've seen people with masters degrees in an engineering discipline that were confounded with simple trigonometry problems while common sense and problem solving are simply nonexistent.

Homeschool kids
Borderline retarded because parents suck at “teeching”

 

[PoliticalChic]

Too many kids are getting home schooled

Dumbing down of America

Wrong again, dumbass,. It's the public schools failing which is why so many are resorting to home schooling now.
Name just one thing government does that it hasn't eventually fucked up. Just one.

Homeschool

Uneducated adults get to pretend they are teachers

Yet they have all accumulated more wisdom than you. Imagine that.

Look at me! I’m a Teecher

That spelling looks about par for a college graduate today. Half of them don't now the difference between your and you're while the other half is hard pressed to construct a simple sentence. Never mind math, I've seen people with masters degrees in an engineering discipline that were confounded with simple trigonometry problems while common sense and problem solving are simply nonexistent.

"One in ten young adults think eggs come from WHEAT as survey reveals our shocking lack of food knowledge
· Fewer than half of 16 to 23-year-olds know that butter comes from a dairy cow, poll results reveal

· A third of them are unaware that eggs are laid by hens and one in five believes jam and marmalade come from cereal crops

· Ten per cent of young adults said potatoes took less than a month to grow

· Eight per cent said bacon came from wheat, with another 2 per cent thought it was made from maize

· The research, carried out for charity Leaf (Linking Environment and Farming), reveals a startling lack of knowledge among young consumers about how our food ends up on the table.



1. One in 10 young adults in Britain believes eggs come from wheat or maize and fewer than half know that butter comes from a dairy cow.
2. A third of 16 to 23-year-olds do not know that eggs are laid by hens and even more are unaware that bacon comes from pigs, a poll found.

3. Two thousand people were asked to match staple foods - such as milk, bacon, butter or oil - with pictures of the crop or animal they are made from. Four in 10 young adults failed to link milk with an image of a dairy cow, with 7 per cent of them associating it with wheat.

Two-thirds of the 16 to 23-year-olds questioned were able to link eggs to a picture of a hen, but 11 per cent thought they came from wheat or maize.

Eight per cent of this age group believed that bacon came from wheat, and another 2 per cent said it was made from maize..

Only half of young adults correctly identified that steak came from beef cattle, with 12 per cent thinking it came from wheat or maize.

One in five said that jam or marmalade came from cereal crops.

Almost two-thirds of young adults did not know that new potatoes would be available from British farms in June, and one in 10 thought they took less than a month to grow.

A similar number also thought the same was true about wheat and oats.

The figures indicate that knowledge about foods improves with age.

While 24 per cent of all respondents knew that salad dressing could come from rapeseed oil, only 6 per cent of young adults were able to make the connection.

In spite of the findings, 43 per cent of 16 to 23-year-olds told researchers that they considered themselves knowledgable about where foods come from."
LEAF survey: One in ten young adults think eggs come from wheat | Daily Mail Online




How about American college grads?

Much better????

 

[PoliticalChic]

“The Dumbest Generation”

“To Mark Bauerlein, a professor of English at Emory University, the present is a good time to be young only if you don't mind a tendency toward empty-headedness. In "The Dumbest Generation," he argues that cultural and technological forces, far from opening up an exciting new world of learning and thinking, have conspired to create a level of public ignorance so high as to threaten our democracy.

If the new hours in front of the computer were subtracting from television time, there might be something encouraging to say about the increasingly interactive quality of youthful diversions. The facts, at least as Mr. Bauerlein marshals them, show otherwise: TV viewing is constant. The printed word has paid a price – from 1981 to 2003, the leisure reading of 15- to 17-year-olds fell to seven minutes a day from 18. But the real action has been in multitasking. By 2003, children were cramming an average of 8½ hours of media consumption a day into just 6½ hours – watching TV while surfing the Web, reading while listening to music, composing text messages while watching a movie.

This daily media binge isn't making students smarter. The National Assessment of Educational Progress has pegged 46% of 12th-graders below the "basic" level of proficiency in science, while only 2% are qualified as "advanced." Likewise in the political arena: Participatory Web sites may give young people a "voice," but their command of the facts is shaky. Forty-six percent of high-school seniors say it's " 'very important' to be an active and informed citizen," but only 26% are rated as proficient in civics. Between 1992 and 2005, the NAEP reported, 12th-grade reading skills dropped dramatically. (As for writing, Naomi Baron, in her recent book, "Always On: Language in an Online and Mobile World," cites the NAEP to note that "only 24% of twelfth-graders are 'capable of composing organized, coherent prose in clear language with correct spelling and grammar.' ") Conversation is affected, too. Mr. Bauerlein sums up part of the problem: "The verbal values of adulthood and adolescence clash, and to enter adult conditions, individuals must leave the verbal mores of high school behind. The screen blocks the ascent."

What frustrates Mr. Bauerlein is not these deficits themselves – it's the way a blind celebration of youth, and an ill-informed optimism about technology, have led the public to ignore them. "Over and over," he writes, "commentators stress the mental advance, the learning side over the fun and fantasy side." Steven Johnson, in his best-selling "Everything Bad Is Good for You," describes videogames as "a kind of cognitive workout." Jonathan Fanton of the MacArthur Foundation writes that children have created "communities the size of nations" where they explore "new techniques for personal expression." Such assessments, Mr. Bauerlein argues, are far too charitable.

Mr. Bauerlein contrasts such "evidence-lite enthusiasm" for digital technologies with a weightier learning tradition. He eulogizes New York's City College in the mid-20th century, a book-centered, debate-fostering place where a generation of intellectuals rejected the "sovereignty of youth" in favor of the concerted study of canonical texts and big ideas."

From Bookshelf- book review in the May 13, 2008 Wall Street Journal

 

[alang1216]

Schools are generally locally run. Trump will have little to no impact on them.

This is like saying nuclear reactors are locally run

Nuclear reactors are federally licensed and regulated, schools are not. So it is nothing like saying nuclear reactors are locally run

 

[initforme]

This new young generation of workers might very well go down as the most productive generation ever. Any emoyer who struggles to find good workers today is simply a place workers should avoid working at. It is a terrible place to work.

 

[PoliticalChic]

This new young generation of workers might very well go down as the most productive generation ever. Any emoyer who struggles to find good workers today is simply a place workers should avoid working at. It is a terrible place to work.

Under Trump....

"The U.S. has 1 million more job openings than unemployed workers"
The U.S. has 1 million more job openings than unemployed workers


So find a job you like.

 

[hadit]

Too many kids are getting home schooled

Dumbing down of America

They're not the ones trying to shoehorn politics into math.

 

[hadit]

Too many kids are getting home schooled

Dumbing down of America

Have you seen America’s biggest cities? Baltimore, Chicago, Boston , Camden, New York, St. Louis, Oakland, San Fran... how come democrats are clueless about current events?

Been to them all
They also contain some of the best schools in the country.

Good Parents make good schools

Good parents make good homeschools.

 

[rightwinger]

This new young generation of workers might very well go down as the most productive generation ever. Any emoyer who struggles to find good workers today is simply a place workers should avoid working at. It is a terrible place to work.

Under Trump....

"The U.S. has 1 million more job openings than unemployed workers"
The U.S. has 1 million more job openings than unemployed workers


So find a job you like.

All burger flipping jobs

There are 173 million people not working in this country

 

[rightwinger]

Too many kids are getting home schooled

Dumbing down of America

Have you seen America’s biggest cities? Baltimore, Chicago, Boston , Camden, New York, St. Louis, Oakland, San Fran... how come democrats are clueless about current events?

Been to them all
They also contain some of the best schools in the country.

Good Parents make good schools

Good parents make good homeschools.

Make good public school students too

 

[hadit]

Too many kids are getting home schooled

Dumbing down of America

Have you seen America’s biggest cities? Baltimore, Chicago, Boston , Camden, New York, St. Louis, Oakland, San Fran... how come democrats are clueless about current events?

Been to them all
They also contain some of the best schools in the country.

Good Parents make good schools

Good parents make good homeschools.

Make good public school students too

Kids with good parents do better in home schooling then kids in government schools. You can't blast home schools on the basis of a few bad parents while simultaneously lauding government schools on the basis of a few good parents.

 

[Jitss617]

This new young generation of workers might very well go down as the most productive generation ever. Any emoyer who struggles to find good workers today is simply a place workers should avoid working at. It is a terrible place to work.

Under Trump....

"The U.S. has 1 million more job openings than unemployed workers"
The U.S. has 1 million more job openings than unemployed workers


So find a job you like.

All burger flipping jobs

There are 173 million people not working in this country

Wages are up 5%

 

[bluzman61]

Once upon a time, education was the mission of the school system.


It ain't any more.


"Prof Seeks Ideas on How to Advance Social Justice in Math Textbooks
If John has ten dollars, and I take eight of his dollars and give them to Jane, how much less oppressed is Jane?

The College Fix reports:

Math professor soliciting ideas for ‘#socialjustice’ textbook content

Chad Topaz was one of the professors at the center of the uproar against Abigail Thompson, a math professor at the University of California, Davis, who recently wrote in opposition to required “diversity statements” in academia. Thompson derided the practice of diversity statements, referring to them as “using a political test as a screen for job applicants.”

Topaz, a mathematics professor at Williams College, played a prominent role in marshaling opposition to Thompson, telling activists to bombard UC Davis with “public shame,” announcing that he would urge his graduate students and undergrads to avoid applying to the institution, and offering a letter template for activists to mail into the American Mathematical Society, where Thompson is a vice president and in whose journal the essay appeared.

On Monday of this week, Topaz was further engaged in social justice activism, telling his followers on Twitter that he was potentially in line to receive an offer “to join the editorial board of a particular math book series,” that he would only do so as a means to “advance #socialjustice,” and that he was interested in fielding suggestions to that effect."
Prof Seeks Ideas on How to Advance Social Justice in Math Textbooks



It is imperative that Liberals/Progressives/Democrats never.....NEVER....be allowed to have any control in either the seats of power......

....or in education.

"Social justice in math textbooks" - These people are INSANE.

 

[Likkmee]

Wrong again, dumbass,. It's the public schools failing which is why so many are resorting to home schooling now.
Name just one thing government does that it hasn't eventually fucked up. Just one.

Homeschool

Uneducated adults get to pretend they are teachers

Yet they have all accumulated more wisdom than you. Imagine that.

Look at me! I’m a Teecher

That spelling looks about par for a college graduate today. Half of them don't now the difference between your and you're while the other half is hard pressed to construct a simple sentence. Never mind math, I've seen people with masters degrees in an engineering discipline that were confounded with simple trigonometry problems while common sense and problem solving are simply nonexistent.

Homeschool kids
Borderline retarded because parents suck at “teeching”

Florida is best. Teachers there suck WHILE teeching

 

[PoliticalChic]

Once upon a time, education was the mission of the school system.


It ain't any more.


"Prof Seeks Ideas on How to Advance Social Justice in Math Textbooks
If John has ten dollars, and I take eight of his dollars and give them to Jane, how much less oppressed is Jane?

The College Fix reports:

Math professor soliciting ideas for ‘#socialjustice’ textbook content

Chad Topaz was one of the professors at the center of the uproar against Abigail Thompson, a math professor at the University of California, Davis, who recently wrote in opposition to required “diversity statements” in academia. Thompson derided the practice of diversity statements, referring to them as “using a political test as a screen for job applicants.”

Topaz, a mathematics professor at Williams College, played a prominent role in marshaling opposition to Thompson, telling activists to bombard UC Davis with “public shame,” announcing that he would urge his graduate students and undergrads to avoid applying to the institution, and offering a letter template for activists to mail into the American Mathematical Society, where Thompson is a vice president and in whose journal the essay appeared.

On Monday of this week, Topaz was further engaged in social justice activism, telling his followers on Twitter that he was potentially in line to receive an offer “to join the editorial board of a particular math book series,” that he would only do so as a means to “advance #socialjustice,” and that he was interested in fielding suggestions to that effect."
Prof Seeks Ideas on How to Advance Social Justice in Math Textbooks



It is imperative that Liberals/Progressives/Democrats never.....NEVER....be allowed to have any control in either the seats of power......

....or in education.

"Social justice in math textbooks" - These people are INSANE.

I heard this once or twice: Liberalism is a mental disorder.

 

[rightwinger]

The decline of American education coincides with more children being home schooled.

The dumbing down of America

 

[hadit]

The decline of American education coincides with more children being home schooled.

The dumbing down of America

It also coincides with the rise of political correctness and the internet. You're not even trying here.

 

[OldLady]

Kids aren't really that much dumber than before--they just know different things. They are born knowing how to operate electronics, and many a student has rescued my ass by knowing more about what my computer messages mean than I do. Who really cares if they know where marmalade comes from? As they get older and start cooking more, maybe they'll find out.

Our public education system works fine. We are giving it too much to do, though. I've seen some great students who were homeschooled, and I've seen some parents lie and say they were homeschooling when they were simply too lazy to get out of bed in the morning and get their kids on the bus.

All children by age 7 must be enrolled in school. If the parents are homeschooling, they need to notify the Superintendent's office, who supposedly "tracks" the children's progress. However, overworked and underfunded/staffed schools let that slide in a lot of places. I think if homeschooling is permitted, that students MUST take a standardized test like their classmates every two years and if they are below their peers in their knowledge, the parents must work with the schools to develop a plan to improve the child's performance OR enroll the child in school where the child will receive education by professionals trained to teach. Otherwise, they are deemed truant and the parents arrested.

 

[PoliticalChic]

Once upon a time, education was the mission of the school system.


It ain't any more.


"Prof Seeks Ideas on How to Advance Social Justice in Math Textbooks
If John has ten dollars, and I take eight of his dollars and give them to Jane, how much less oppressed is Jane?

The College Fix reports:

Math professor soliciting ideas for ‘#socialjustice’ textbook content

Chad Topaz was one of the professors at the center of the uproar against Abigail Thompson, a math professor at the University of California, Davis, who recently wrote in opposition to required “diversity statements” in academia. Thompson derided the practice of diversity statements, referring to them as “using a political test as a screen for job applicants.”

Topaz, a mathematics professor at Williams College, played a prominent role in marshaling opposition to Thompson, telling activists to bombard UC Davis with “public shame,” announcing that he would urge his graduate students and undergrads to avoid applying to the institution, and offering a letter template for activists to mail into the American Mathematical Society, where Thompson is a vice president and in whose journal the essay appeared.

On Monday of this week, Topaz was further engaged in social justice activism, telling his followers on Twitter that he was potentially in line to receive an offer “to join the editorial board of a particular math book series,” that he would only do so as a means to “advance #socialjustice,” and that he was interested in fielding suggestions to that effect."
Prof Seeks Ideas on How to Advance Social Justice in Math Textbooks



It is imperative that Liberals/Progressives/Democrats never.....NEVER....be allowed to have any control in either the seats of power......

....or in education.

And another one!


This is the result of putting Democrats/Liberals in power in education:


"Educational ‘equity’ consultant advocates burning ‘most books used in schools’

... Dennis claimed black students, both male and female, “feel empowered by talking trash to faculty and staff.”
Educational ‘equity’ consultant advocates burning ‘most books used in schools’ | The College Fix

 

[rightwinger]

The decline of American education coincides with more children being home schooled.

The dumbing down of America

It also coincides with the rise of political correctness and the internet. You're not even trying here.

The internet makes kids smarter than any generation in history

They have a library in their pocket