posted 09-28-2003 06:59 AM            

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QUOTE:"Note - We have, indeed, essentially lost most of the next generation. The causes are more than obvious: The government schools with brainwashing, stultifying, revisionist PC curriculums and staffed with ever-less capable teachers reformatted to create non-reading, non-thinking, nearly non-verbal morons; the devastating cradle-to-grave MIND CONTROL of commercial TV - the most withering weapon ever unleashed on human kind; the unlimited sex and reflexive violence and immorality conveyed and marketed in many/most films and 'pop culture' media; hideously ugly 'people' magazines purveying...nearly demanding...attention and obedience to an endless stream of insipid 'cool' role models and the cheapest sensationalism; the astonishing vapid, often vile, negative, self-pitying 'MUSIC' ingraining and reinforcing boundless hedonism, anger, rage self-indulgence and the taking of ever more plentiful street drugs; countless millions of broken homes and miserably failed parents; ruthless school peer pressure and brutality...strong enough to push tragically betrayed and sold-out young people to mass murder and suicide; the pharmaceutical cartel's medicating/destroying of millions of elementary and teenage children whose lives will never fully recover from their 'therapy'; a youth 'culture' dominated by image, wallowing in victimhood, committed to non-responsibility, obsessed with sex and 'friends' and 'STYLE'...and headed toward a multitude of sexually-transmitted diseases, many fatal; a national diet of the most worthless and criminally-contaminated disease-producing food in history; and much more.

America has been usurped, raped and destroyed by greed and by a group of people whose goal has been, for centuries, the subjugation and servitude of the human race. The 'next' generation will walk, mindlessly, fat, with many obese, and in poor health, through a droll, utterly predictable lifetime of the most unprecedented stupidity and self-gratification - and self-destruction - in modern history"

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posted 09-28-2003 09:29 PM               

She stated many of my major complaints about the school systems. My daughter is a horrible speller for her age. She never used to get points taken off her tests for misspelling! Can you believe that? At one point I even called her fourth grade teacher and complained about that! How can they learn to spell that way?

And the calculator is another peeve of mine. We used to do ALL math manually. My head was my calculator.

So, are going to be the dumbest “civilized” nation within the next 20 years – or are we the dumbest already?

As smart as we might think our generation is, look at this eighth grade exam from 1895 (Kansas of all places - no offense!). It’s pretty rough! I probably would answer about 50% of it correctly (I think??). I showed it to my daughter a couple of months ago (she’s in 9th grade now) - I don’t think she’d have answered one question completely! We had a big laugh about it at the time – but it’s really not funny. http://www.blessedquietness.com/journal/homemake/8thexam.htm

posted 09-28-2003 09:53 PM            

.....She never used to get points taken off her tests for misspelling! Can you believe that?.....

Heh heh - I sure can. Which is why I relieved my son of the Boston school system three weeks after he entered the eighth grade and home-schooled him for two of the following four years. And that was in 1985, mind you. I am very pleased to report that he is a software developer and consultant for Open Source and has recently opened his own storefront in a beautiful little town in New England - and is still a lousy speller.