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In the 60s we were forced to Learn to be successful. My children were forced to learn. In the 90s the PC liberal/communists made 'school' about Control and the 20 and 30 year old kids are Stupid and can not count money or speak 'English'. I am waiting on the Cell system to fail, and it will at some point. The kids that live in a 3x6 screen in their hand, will Starve in their tracks because they will be Lost and will be able to DO Nothing.
Fraid the dumbing of the plebs has been going on fo' long time.
This... https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00361/full https://web.archive.org/web/20220423174916/https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00361/full
...is making me shit my proverbial pants. Because it means the moronization started years before our parents were a glimmer in our grand parents eyes.
Yeah... Shit.
Completely agree. You can find old 8th grade elementary school tests that were given at years end to test competence back in the late 1800s to early 1900s online and I can guarantee that over 90% of high school graduates couldn't pass those tests (the number is probably closer to 99.9%).
Try a typical 1800s exam yourself at: https://thinklab.typepad.com/think_lab/2006/03/8th_grade_exami.html
After you've been humbled, maybe hunker down and begin to fill in the huge gaps in your education on your own through independent study.
In 1989 I was a HS freshman and had to do Saturday detention for something I have now long forgotten. What I remember was clearing out part of the attic that was filled with decades old yearbooks and other school papers. I saw the requirements for students in the sixties and all the books they had to read to graduate and all of them were far advanced than what we were reading. The shit the average student had to do to get a HS diploma is now advanced college level shit. I'm sure it's gotten much worse in the 20+ years since.
The 13 year education system is pointless and counter to productivity and making sure our sons have jobs before our daughters start getting horny. The vast majority of schooling is pointless filler which could be eliminated in favor of actual job skills for various entry level positions.
I'll create my own test, where I ask how many 8" floppy disks you'd need to hold Windows 11 (Answer is 'All of them')
Is the Moon made out of Swiss or dick cheese? How many mexican clowns can be fit into a VW bug? What do plants crave?
I passed the test in 🤡 🌎!!
I just wrote racist to every answer!
This is one of the blackest black pills I've seen. It's a fucking academic proof of Idiocracy. Thank you for a very interesting comment.
Remember the Math flash cards? I was lazy about learning multiplication so Mom forced it. I had to leave at age 17 to clothe myself. I lived in some rough situations but now looking back, it taught me to survive on my own.
Did you leave because math flash cards took your clothes?
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You were also handed the greatest economy the world had ever seen and wrapped it around a tree.
In "your day" any old moron could stroll into the local mill and get a job with a pension and be set.
Get out of here with this old "bootstrap" shit.
The clown world that exists today was literally created by Boomers.
LMAO. You are mad because you have to actually get up and Work to make a living and a future LIKE I DID. BTW, 'Boomers' are mostly hard working Republicans. The Clown world is all liberal communism=obama/clinton/biden/Soros.
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