How Dumb Are We?

[Gipper]

Thanks to the American public school system, many Americans are dumb. But, the p-schools just need more money to fix the problem...

This from the hard left Newsweek rag. Of course, they claim the problems that cause American ignorance is not at all related to the p-school failures, but income inequality and the decentralized nature of the American p-school system.

Typical left wing crap.

How Dumb Are We?
NEWSWEEK gave 1,000 Americans the U.S. Citizenship Test--38 percent failed. The country's future is imperiled by our ignorance.

What Don't You Know? Take the Quiz.

They’re the sort of scores that drive high-school history teachers to drink. When NEWSWEEK recently asked 1,000 U.S. citizens to take America’s official citizenship test, 29 percent couldn’t name the vice president. Seventy-three percent couldn’t correctly say why we fought the Cold War. Forty-four percent were unable to define the Bill of Rights. And 6 percent couldn’t even circle Independence Day on a calendar.
Don’t get us wrong: civic ignorance is nothing new. For as long as they’ve existed, Americans have been misunderstanding checks and balances and misidentifying their senators. And they’ve been lamenting the philistinism of their peers ever since pollsters started publishing these dispiriting surveys back in Harry Truman’s day. (He was a president, by the way.) According to a study by Michael X. Delli Carpini, dean of the Annenberg School for Communication, the yearly shifts in civic knowledge since World War II have averaged out to “slightly under 1 percent.”
http://www.newsweek.com/2011/03/20/how-dumb-are-we.html?om_rid=CTiCsY&om_mid=_BNhmKiB8ZvuD37

 

[steveox]

These Kids are dumb

They grow up to be Dumber!

 

[Apathy]

These Kids are dumb

They grow up to be Dumber!

Since when did racism become acceptable?

 

[steveox]

Its the truth!! You see Public Education doesnt work! the NEA suopports teachers unions and why they protest in Wisconsin. The Teachers didnt give a damn about their students when they protested. They go to docs get sick notes and not one of them got fired. But what if i get a another job and My Ravens or Orioles go to the Superbowl or the World Series. And i go to my doc ask him write out a sick note so i can go to the Superbowl or the World Series game you think my doc would go for that corruption. HELL NO!!! Why why should the teachers escape from being fired to attending a protest rally? You see Privite Education is how you make America smarter. Parents should get the Bill to pay for their kids attending school not the Taxpayers. Why should i pay MY TAXES to a bunch of dumb****s that the NEA promotes?

 

[PLC1]

These Kids are dumb

Showing pictures of pre-integrated schools and trying to say that black people are "dumb" just makes you look like a racist, or perhaps just a troll.

From the OP:

It doesn’t help that the United States has one of the highest levels of income inequality in the developed world, with the top 400 households raking in more money than the bottom 60 percent combined. As Dalton Conley, an NYU sociologist, explains, “it’s like comparing apples and oranges. Unlike Denmark, we have a lot of very poor people without access to good education, and a huge immigrant population that doesn’t even speak English.” When surveys focus on well-off, native-born respondents, the U.S. actually holds its own against Europe.

Maybe we should address our social problems and quit trying to blame the blacks for our educational shortfalls.

 

[dogtowner]

Maybe we should address our social problems and quit trying to blame the blacks for our educational shortfalls.

OK then. All you parents of these stupid children, DEMAND that they work at their scholwork. Yes that may mean youhave to miss Idol and sit with them to understand that math problem or put off getting stoned to help with that science project and, GOD FORBID, spend a little quality time with your offspring. Even out ****tiest schools are beter than most int he 3rd world and any of them can educate kids who want to learn.

That they don't is a just a failure of their useless parent(s).

 

[PLC1]

OK then. All you parents of these stupid children, DEMAND that they work at their scholwork. Yes that may mean youhave to miss Idol and sit with them to understand that math problem or put off getting stoned to help with that science project and, GOD FORBID, spend a little quality time with your offspring. Even out ****tiest schools are beter than most int he 3rd world and any of them can educate kids who want to learn.

That they don't is a just a failure of their useless parent(s).

That's what the "well-off, native-born respondents" do, of course. So do some of the other parents, but not enough to measure statistically. Some of the non native born do, too, but they have that language barrier to contend with.

 

[steveox]

No one forced you to have kids. You should pay all their needs. Its just like driving a car. Taxpayers dont pay for my auto insurance,Taxpayers dont pay for my License renewals,Taxpayers dont pay for my tags and Taxpayers dont pay for my registration fees. So why should Taxpayers pay for kids to attend public school?

 

[PLC1]

No one forced you to have kids. You should pay all their needs. Its just like driving a car. Taxpayers dont pay for my auto insurance,Taxpayers dont pay for my License renewals,Taxpayers dont pay for my tags and Taxpayers dont pay for my registration fees. So why should Taxpayers pay for kids to attend public school?

I don't know... maybe because we all benefit from having an educated populace?

 

[pocketfullofshells]

Since when did racism become acceptable?

Well its clear its not racism what he meant was all those kids with there hand raised as if they wanted to ask a question....are dumb...hence why they raised there hand to answer..

Or the more likely choice

Steve is a racist idiot.

 

[pocketfullofshells]

I don't know... maybe because we all benefit from having an educated populace?

I am sure his parents paid for his school out of there own pocket...in fact build the school themself just to make sure there was one, And they even paved the roads to it just for him...if only he had actuly used it....

 

[pocketfullofshells]

Thanks to the American public school system, many Americans are dumb. But, the p-schools just need more money to fix the problem...

This from the hard left Newsweek rag. Of course, they claim the problems that cause American ignorance is not at all related to the p-school failures, but income inequality and the decentralized nature of the American p-school system.

Typical left wing crap.

Typical pointless ranting about the left...void of anything to back up your rants.

As someone who went to a poor school, in a poor area of the cities, with lots of low income students...and then also one in one of the richest areas of the state.....There is a night and day difference ...and yes alot of it had to do with funding...It was odd , new textbooks ( not 15 year old ones) , whole rooms full of computers..( my old school had a few) Library about 4 times the size of the one I had before...brand new building vs falling apart building, teachers who actually had advanced degrees! Huge Sprawling campus with 5 baseball fields, swimming pool, outdoor track. They had all kinds of after school programs that I never had options to take before...Vs no pool, no baseball field, no track, most after school things had been long cut....

but noooo large amounts of funding for a rich area school vs my poor area school had zero to do with the education gap.

Don't worry the worse off they are, the better they are ready to be sucked into dumb ideas like Obama is a Muslim, Obama is not a US Citizen, Obama Started TARP, Obama Raised taxes, Obamas trip to India cost 200 Million a day...you know dumb things Republicans like to believe for no reason.

But its clear what we need to do....cut school funding that will make people smarter right?

 

[steveox]

Well its clear its not racism what he meant was all those kids with there hand raised as if they wanted to ask a question....are dumb...hence why they raised there hand to answer..

Or the more likely choice

Steve is a racist idiot.

Im Not a racist! Im telling you like it is nowadays. Go back 100 years ago. There were no Public education system. Kids got educated in 2 ways. Ether by their parents or a town school volenteer by a teacher. There were no NEA nor Schoolboards. And Politics were not involved in school business. Todays education is run by the politicaly appointed schoolboards and the NEA. Why you think Kids were not dumb back in 1800s? And Guess what Abe Lincoln never went to school and He became president of the United States. So all this political system by politicaly run schoolboards and the NEA is bull****. This is capitolism at its best.Capitolist system only allows certain people to get rich. This is exactly why i want Socialism in America just like the old soviet union system. Watch Micheal Moore movies and youll understand how corrupt todays American capitolist system is.

 

[pocketfullofshells]

Im Not a racist! Im telling you like it is nowadays. Go back 100 years ago. There were no Public education system. Kids got educated in 2 ways. Ether by their parents or a town school volenteer by a teacher. There were no NEA nor Schoolboards. And Politics were not involved in school business. Todays education is run by the politicaly appointed schoolboards and the NEA. Why you think Kids were not dumb back in 1800s? And Guess what Abe Lincoln never went to school and He became president of the United States. So all this political system by politicaly run schoolboards and the NEA is bull****. This is capitolism at its best.Capitolist system only allows certain people to get rich. This is exactly why i want Socialism in America just like the old soviet union system. Watch Micheal Moore movies and youll understand how corrupt todays American capitolist system is.

Yes the 1800's when most of the US where Engineers and always full of knowledge of all world events....Its OK I know you just wish back for the years you could put on a white hood and be thought of as a "thinker"

 

[PLC1]

Oh, by all means, let's go back 100 years. The year is 1911. Life expectancy in the US is around 50, mostly due to poor sanitation and infectious diseases. Penicillin is still to be invented, as are vaccines. Roads are mostly unpaved, one lane dirt traveled by horses and carriages and by Model T Fords. There are public schools, however, as even then the parents could see the value of literacy. Electricity can be had in the cities, at least some of them, but kerosene lanterns do the job of lighting for most people. Air conditioning is still a science fiction device. An indoor bathroom is a luxury, as is water that doesn't have to be hauled from the hand pumped well.

Those black children in the picture above knew their place: The bottom of society. Step out of line, and face a lynch mob, and heaven forbid they drink out of a "whites only" drinking fountain.

Except, of course, in the darned liberal states like California and Hawaii, where there was no segregation, and decent white folks had to share space with the "darkies." How awful.

By all means, go back and live the way people did in the good old days, before all of the darned liberals ruined everything.

But, if you'll excuse me, I'll stay in the 21st. century, even if I have to pay taxes for all of those unwashed, unparented poor children to have a shot at being able to read, write, and cipher. Have fun.