I attended public school and I think I turned out well.

Rome fell .... ? I didn't get the memo.

Public schools, and the educational system in general, have changed into institutions of educational experimentation, social engineering, and political indoctrination. They need to get the politics out and get back to just teaching essentials.

Sorry for being curious/nosy, but you've mentioned along these lines before and also that you have at least one kid, a daughter, so I'm wondering what you're doing as far as her education. I guess I'm usually curious about what people say vs. how they actually implement it.

(I'm not happy with the state of schools in general, but we don't have kids nor do we plan to.)

Every once in a while I have a discussion with my brother who lives in Philadelphia. He sent his kids (now adults) to private Catholic schools. The city of Philadelphia paid for transportation of his kids to go to their private schools. That never made sense to me.

The city government (and perhaps the public school budget) has less money because of the added expense of sending private students to their private schools.

He would complain that he was forced to pay school tax for schools he didn't use.

What really connects these people besides the random date of their birth?

I think this generation is exactly like every previous generation was and every future generation will be.

The times that they grow up in. The environment and society that they share. And that has changed.

The environment that a person lives in plays a significant role in the development of the person's values, habits, personality, and even character. I don't know if you're missing this point, or if you're actually denying the existance of all socio-cultural anthropology.



So you don't believe in evolution?

The times that they grow up in. The environment and society that they share. And that has changed.

The environment that a person lives in plays a significant role in the development of the person's values, habits, personality, and even character. I don't know if you're missing this point, or if you're actually denying the existance of all socio-cultural anthropology.



So you don't believe in evolution?

... American public schools were purposely designed to make kids ignorant and tractable. Over my dead body will my children attend one,...

I attended public school and I think I turned out well.

What type of school did you attend?

Public schools, and the educational system in general, have changed into institutions of educational experimentation, social engineering, and political indoctrination.

Do you honestly mean to imply that evolution works so quickly we could see its effects in the span of one lifetime?

The original statement is "the dumbest generation" thereby implying that the previous generations were smarter. If you think evolution or environment or a combination of the two will make an entire generation dumber in the space of 20 years, I would suggest that you are missing the point.

Of course, that didn't really matter - even in 4th grade, I was bored out of my mind - this was all stuff I had read on my own even earlier. I wound up developing some really, really bad study and homework habits early on because I so easily absorbed information that I never needed to "study" for tests - I could ace them after a cursory review of the subject material.


In short, they did everything they could to kill my desire for learning.

Thankfully, it didn't work - but I learned how to hate school, hate authority in general, and rebel against it violently. Unfortunately, these are skills that are not conducive to successful employment in the working world...

I can safely state that not many of the kids I meet these days have a comparable skill set to what my peers and I would have had at their ages. What that means, exactly, is harder to say. From a grown-up perspective it sure as hell looks a lot like ignorance - but is that what adolescence is supposed to look like from here? Were we such dumbasses?

I'd like to chalk it up to the folly of youth, but I meet too many adults these days who are the same type of adolescent meatheads. Grown people just bought hundreds of millions of dollars' worth of Grand Theft Auto, fer crissakes.