Education in America

[Shiftless2]

This article is almost ten years old but things have not gotten any better. In fact, if you look at Texas and Florida (among others) you'll see that things have gotten significantly worse

The cult of ignorance in the United States: Anti-intellectualism and the "dumbing down" of America -- Sott.net

There is a growing and disturbing trend of anti-intellectual elitism in American culture. It's the dismissal of science, the arts, and humanities and their replacement by entertainment, self-righteousness, ignorance, and deliberate gullibility....

www.sott.net

Two other articles you should read

http://churchandstate.org.uk/2017/09/why-do-conservatives-hate-science-so-much/

2017 was a big year for scrubbing science from government websites. Here's the list.

After all, we can’t have students learning that science stuff because they might start asking questions.

 

[Shiftless2]

But the issues don't stop with high school - it extends to universities. Even the Ivy's are succumbing ....

University of Pennsylvania does away with dean’s list recognitions | The College Fix

A 'reduction of emphasis on grades.'

www.thecollegefix.com

 

[Shiftless2]

Hits the nail on the head ....

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[titan]

Shiftless, politicians will continue this madness as long as they're rewarded at the polls for it.

 

[Shiftless2]

politicians will continue this madness as long as they're rewarded at the polls for it.

Agreed.

And it's actually worse than that sounds - by effectively dumbing down the populace they're creating an even bigger pool of people who will vote for them.

 

[sear]

Agreed.
And it's actually worse than that sounds - by effectively dumbing down the populace they're creating an even bigger pool of people who will vote for them.

Ditto ditto t #4 & S2 #5, BUT !!

Republicans make similar accusation against Dems.
Their accusation:
Democrats buy votes with tax revenue with welfare and other socialist ("communist") programs. Welfare queens don't have to go to work, so they can stay home, and churn out future Democrat voters.

 

[Shiftless2]

Democrats buy votes with tax revenue with welfare and other socialist ("communist") programs. Welfare queens don't have to go to work, so they can stay home, and churn out future Democrat voters.

You mean like these guys? The ones who are always demonized by the GOP

 

[sear]

"Schrodinger".
Quantum laziness?

A quantum of light = "photon".
A quantum of laziness = "beer"? "Burp"?

 

[sear]

I'm guessing "tuition free"* K-12 education was established as the U.S. standard, deemed adequate for a high school grad. to meet the hiring requirements of employers.
These standards are obviously out of date. Some Western nations apply a K-14 standard.
But in addition, are there basic citizen skills not currently part of the U.S. K-12 curriculum that should be added?

When a mortgagor makes extra (unscheduled) payments intending to reduce the interest paid (without affecting loan %) the bank can accept the pre-payment.
The bank can even credit it to the account. BUT !
The bank may legally treat the pre-payment merely as an additional payment, and claim most of it as interest, and only the standard ratio counted as paying down principle.
But the mortgagor is entitled to have such pre-payments 100% pay down principle, zero interest from that one payment.
How many high school grads. know this? And how much $interest it can save them?

Many if not most U.S. high school grads. are public (government) school grads.
Haven't government schools, some obligation to at least provide these young adults
basic skills for avoiding familiar institutional scams?

If so, either some current element of the curriculum would have to be displaced,
or K-12 would have to be extended. K-14 in the U.S.? Overdue?

That's over 16% more education. Meaning 16% higher school taxes?
So would the tax payer prefer lower taxes, & our teens graduate naïve about common adversities?

* Government cannot "give" to its citizens anything that it has not first taken.
Perhaps wisely the U.S. funds K-12 not by the wealth of the parents of the students
but on the wealth of the school tax district, & the budgets they approve.

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