ghostgotcha Loc: The Florida swamps

Noraa Loc: Kansas

Hear! Hear!

bahmer

Spot on.

nwtk2007 Loc: Texas

I agree but I'm not seeing it happen. People have to actually want a good education system Right now, they think it's great if little johnny comes home with A's, having done virtually nothing at all.

Radiance3

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The biggest and most difficult problems are students from the grade schools to colleges and universities being indoctrinated by liberal/socialist agenda, political correctness. They are not taught history, our constitution, and personal responsibility. They behave and think that society or the American taxpayers owe them a living to providing them lifetime bailout. They are more violent, rebellious, lack of morality.

All these started during the presidency of Barack Obama from 2009 carried forward until today. The liberal colleges and universities hired many aliens like Muslims and Hispanics, who are not loyal to our country, who teach and indoctrinate the students to hate the USA, reverse history, and hatred for the white people. They are allowed in colleges and universities to committing crimes and violence when free speech is exercised by conservative groups, different from the students views. They think that only their ideas and rights must prevail. They defend socialism, immoralities, and destructions and deviate from the prior culture that Americans greatly honored and held for centuries.

Current students are arrogant, mostly more stupid and dumb as a result. Many of them take courses in Black Studies, Ethnic Studies, Women Studies, Gays/Lesbian Rights, and demand taxpayers to fund these studies. Upon graduating, they demand jobs for those studies that represent their interest. And for the sake of "race and equality" under Mr. Obama's administration, they were subsidized, given political jobs at the Federal government regardless of their dumbness, and lack of knowledge and experience. All of them being paid salaries and benefits by the American taxpayers.

In 2010 GAO audited the US Federal Government, and had reported that the manpower of so many departments were overpopulated, duplicating jobs with other units or department all doing similar responsibilities. Thus, more errors and corrections were needed, more time and money invested to make the wrongs right done by these political appointees.

At the grade school level, public schools were required to teach our kids Islam. They were indoctrinated and forced to recite that Islam is the religion of peace, and Allah is the only god. For kids who were raised Christians, when they pray to Jesus, or caught carrying Christian Holy Bible, magazines, or books, the Christian students are suspended, and even removed from schools. Their reason? Separation of Church and State. The irony is that most of the Christian parents including me, are the taxpayers funding those public schools that oppress the Christian kids.

Discriminations have been reversed. Currently I see that the White students and Asian students are usually not accepted at the IVY League schools, or other graduate degrees on various colleges and universities, even when the White and Asian tudents greatly surpass, with much higher grades, and achievements, than the blacks and Latinos who were given preferences because of their race. Their reasoning for that is, to achieve racial equality. As a result, many IVY Schools produce dumb graduates, but more vocal and outspoken towards social justice which they are proud of. Thus, quality of our education went down compared with other countries.

Note: This is an update of a post originally published Feb. 2, 2015. It has been updated to include more recent data.
TOPICS: EDUCATION, EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT, SCIENCE AND INNOVATIONS.
In 2015, here are the ranks of the United States worldwide on 3 major subjects.
SCIENCE , US rank # 24
MATH, US rank # 39
READING, US rank # 24

NAEP also tests U.S. students on science, though not as regularly, and the limited results available. Between 2009 and 2015, the average scores of both fourth- and eight-graders improved from 150 to 154 (on a 0-to-300 scale), although for 12th-graders the average score remained at 150. In 2015, 38% of fourth-graders, 34% of eighth-graders and 22% of 12th-graders were rated proficient or better in science; 24% of fourth-graders, 32% of eighth-graders and 40% of 12th-graders were rated “below basic.”

Between 2009 and 2015:
Based on records above, overall ratings of US students, 40% of the grade 12th students were "below basic"
What a shame for all US citizens to swallow, as we paid most of our hard earned taxes to subsidize them, while they march on the streets committing violence against the American people, destroying private and public properties, demanding their full control of our lives. This is the product of Mr. Obama's political correctness, replacing our constitution, and bill of rights.

Noraa Loc: Kansas

This is what happens when everyone gets a participation award and all competiveness is removed from schools. You don't have to try to be better. Why should you.