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| U.S. Kids Can't Read, Write, or Do Math But Are NO.1 In Critical Race Theory |
| 2021-10-17 |
| [Mercer] America’s crumbling education system is in the news. On October 5th, Joe Biden managed to disgorge some dismal indicators as to the future prospects of America’s youth compared to the rest of the developed world. Joe didn’t quite say it, but America’s kids, the product of an obscenely well-funded school system, rank last in the developed world in reading, writing and math, making homegrown retardation a far more pressing problem in modern-day America than homegrown terrorism. Yet conservatives have kept insisting, throughout the Covid lockdowns and quarantines, that kids were missing out on an education because they were out of school. To paraphrase Joan Rivers, how can you miss out on a rash? (When Madonna accused Lady Gaga of stealing her music, the great, late, lady Joan wanted to know how you could steal a rash.) A particularly startling fact caught my attention in the Economist. "At 15, children in Massachusetts, where education standards are higher than in most states, are so far behind their counterparts in Shanghai at math, that it would take them more than two years of regular education to catch up." This last fact is enormously telling and alarming. It tells you that America’s best schools and students can’t compete with the world’s best. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #6 Those who's culture stress real education and those who don't. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2021-10-17 16:51 |
| #5 Best critique of US education: It's really good at what it is intended to do. |
| Posted by: Angstrom 2021-10-17 11:56 |
| #4 The Chinese get all their education from paid tutors, beginning as soon as the kids can read. Chinese and Korean (also Russian) immigrants to this country continue the tradition here: they know our schools suck and are unwilling to let their kids fall 2+ years behind their cousins in the home country. Given the collapse of American education, remote-education tutors and homeschooling will be the only viable path for American high-achieving kids of any background. Which means the American public school system will collapse in about 15-20 years. |
| Posted by: Merrick Ferret 2021-10-17 11:03 |
| #3 ^^^----- By Design. |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2021-10-17 10:59 |
| #2 Like womyns studies, ghey studies and other "studies" degrees, they are going to be really disappointed in the job prospects. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2021-10-17 10:15 |
| #1 Chinese schools are a dumpster fire, with children being assigned piles of meaningless homework every day, and being taught to regurgitate facts on demand rather than learning. Don't compare anyone to them. |
| Posted by: Omomolet Phutch9064 2021-10-17 08:03 |
