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Article #271Re: Americans are NOT stupid..
From: Lookout
Date: Fri, 16 May 2008 00:26
Date: Fri, 16 May 2008 00:26
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On Thu, 15 May 2008 17:11:51 -0500, Fred Kasner <fkasner@sbcglobal.net> wrote: >Lookout wrote: >> On Thu, 15 May 2008 07:51:15 -0500, Huck <hh@example.com> wrote: >> >>> http://www.snotr.com/video/1168 >> >> Just watch Are You Smarter Than A 5th Grader and you'll agree this >> country is going down hill fast. I pity my daughter's generation. > >But that limited ability to reason and to know a large memory of facts >to which they were exposed in grade school is NOT some new thing. It's >characteristic of countries which have compulsory education and most >jobs that don't need it. >FK "characteristic of countries which have compulsory education" That's something you can't prove and you know it. So Japan doesn't have compulsory education? Norway, Denmark and Sweden don't? It's the US kids getting whipped at the international level. Besides I'm talking about stuff that every kid knew and they don't now and it's not the schools fault as much as it's the parents fault. They are failing the schools by not being involved. In Alabama you can get a high school diploma just for staying in school. Even if you fail every course you still walk at graduation. That, by the way changes this year.
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