Stupid In America

sapperskunk

Has anybody seen this, it's scary. What's gonna happen to the future of the US, if our kids don't know jack shit.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfRUMmTs0ZA

surferdude

Well if kids in America are so stupid what does that say for other countires who can't beat the US in business.

sapperskunk

surferdude wrote:

Well if kids in America are so stupid what does that say for other countires who can't beat the US in business.

The video I think is designed to show the horrors of our education system. And why teacher unions are getting way out of hand.

baraka

I think this has been the case for years. I was considered 'advanced' in my grade school and I was in this 'advanced' algebra class in 8th grade. We got a foreign exchange student from Sweden. As advanced as I thought I was, she crushed me. She didn't show up at school until around 11, because she had to go to Geometry and Algebra II class at the high school.

I don't think it necessarily takes 'book' smarts to be successful in the american business world. I takes a different kind of 'smarts'. I do think we have some work to do to compete academically with other countries.

sponger

Being successful in the US business world is a matter of having white skin and knowing whose ass to kiss.

norm

I've watched about 15 minutes and the same question keeps running through my head - what about the parents? Take the 18 year old who can't read. His mother keeps blaming the schools. But what did she do? When he was 10, did you notice he couldn't read? What action did you take to make sure your son could read? The school can't do it all.

Purple Hawk

sponger wrote:

Being successful in the US business world is a matter of having white skin and knowing whose ass to kiss.

being successful in the world of capitalism is finding your niche. it doesn't have to be in business

sponger

cutback wrote:

I've watched about 15 minutes and the same question keeps running through my head - what about the parents? Take the 18 year old who can't read. His mother keeps blaming the schools. But what did she do? When he was 10, did you notice he couldn't read? What action did you take to make sure your son could read? The school can't do it all.

This is absolutely true. It's not the teacher's job to babysit american youth, only to teach them. Parents should be just as much if not more responsible for how much their children are learning in schools. When I was a kid, my parents would have beaten me into unconsciousness if I skipped homework or screwed off in class.

The flip-side to that is that my parents worked 40 hr weeks and had the time to beat me unconsciousness. I don't think the same can be said for most parents these days. They work double shifts to keep up with the insane cost of living.

This cost of living is being skewed out of control by widening gap between the social classes. This gap is partly the restult of slave labor being brought over the southern border.

So, the declining performance of US students is really a matter of illegal immigration and the promotion of that illegal immigration by greedy US business owners.

sponger

Purple Hawk wrote:

being successful in the world of capitalism is finding your niche. it doesn't have to be in business

Some niches are narrower than others. If your skin pigmentation is of the pale sort, and if your ass-kissing skills are in good shape, then there are big fat niches waiting to be plugged.

Purple Hawk

sponger wrote:

This is absolutely true. It's not the teacher's job to babysit american youth, only to teach them. Parents should be just as much if not more responsible for how much their children are learning in schools. When I was a kid, my parents would have beaten me into unconsciousness if I skipped homework or screwed off in class.

The flip-side to that is that my parents worked 40 hr weeks and had the time to beat me unconsciousness. I don't think the same can be said for most parents these days. They work double shifts to keep up with the insane cost of living.

This cost of living is being skewed out of control by widening gap between the social classes. This gap is partly the restult of slave labor being brought over the southern border.

So, the declining performance of US students is really a matter of illegal immigration and the promotion of that illegal immigration by greedy US business owners.

I like your first two paragraphs, and agree.

the last two..I think you kind of flipped your lid. first, there is no widening gap between the social classes...we currently live in the most prosperous civilization in human history, in the U.S.

the declining performance of US studens has nothing to do with illegal immigrants, it has everything to do with pc policies put forth by teachers unions.

IlovveePJ

I'm an American kid, and I am not stupid. I am very intelligent.....

Purple Hawk

sponger wrote:

Some niches are narrower than others. If your skin pigmentation is of the pale sort, and if your ass-kissing skills are in good shape, then there are big fat niches waiting to be plugged.

your skin color? that card has become pathetic. and the ass-kissing thing, seriously, i think you're smarter than that, figure it out

sponger

Purple Hawk wrote:

I like your first two paragraphs, and agree.

the last two..I think you kind of flipped your lid. first, there is no widening gap between the social classes...we currently live in the most prosperous civilization in human history, in the U.S.

the declining performance of US studens has nothing to do with illegal immigrants, it has everything to do with pc policies put forth by teachers unions.

When the statistics say that it costs $41K/yr for a single person to live on his own while minimum wage is $6.75/hr, I'd say there is a gap.

When the amount of hours adults have been working per week have been steadily increasing over the last 10 years, I'd say there is a gap.

When only 10% of Californians can afford to own a home, I'd say there is a gap.

We live in the most prosperous nation because the businesses at the base of that nation have been able to expand to epic proportions with the help of slave labor.

New York, the country's greatest metropolis, was built on slave labor. The south was built on slave labor. We are headed for another Romanesque economy, if it isn't already here.

sponger

Purple Hawk wrote:

your skin color? that card has become pathetic. and the ass-kissing thing, seriously, i think you're smarter than that, figure it out

Actually, I used to be dumber than that. I used to believe that this country observed equality on every level. I used to think that racism only existed in 1950's Alabama.

But, business is the least objective industry there is. This is because once the groundwork for a business's hierarchy has been laid down, it becomes a self-governing machine that merely has to follow a pre-determined order of operations to remain afloat.

The people who oversee those operations are left to decide who gets to sit in the driver's seat and who doesn't.

The mind is a simple and generally misunderstood mechanism designed for the purpose of self-preservation. Everybody is racist, including myself. I don't go around calling people derogatory names, but I fight the temptation on the daily basis.

How is the General Office manager of XYZ company any different? How is the small business loan officer at XYZ bank any different?

In the world of business, it is all too easy to allow the subconscious and often misunderstood subjectivity of the human mind to influence decisions that are crucial to the future of employees who are affected by those decisions.

To ignore that is to not be smarter than that.

Purple Hawk

sponger wrote:

When the statistics say that it costs $41K/yr for a single person to live on his own while minimum wage is $6.75/hr, I'd say there is a gap.

When the amount of hours adults have been working per week have been steadily increasing over the last 10 years, I'd say there is a gap.

When only 10% of Californians can afford to own a home, I'd say there is a gap.

We live in the most prosperous nation because the businesses at the base of that nation have been able to expand to epic proportions with the help of slave labor.

New York, the country's greatest metropolis, was built on slave labor. The south was built on slave labor. We are headed for another Romanesque economy, if it isn't already here.

what is the median HOUSEHOLD income of people earning the minimum wage? it's 48K. because breadwinners don't earn the minimum wage. like most liberal arguments, it's more about emotion than actual reality.

sponger

Purple Hawk wrote:

what is the median HOUSEHOLD income of people earning the minimum wage? it's 48K. because breadwinners don't earn the minimum wage. like most liberal arguments, it's more about emotion than actual reality.

Household income includes everyone in the home, so this means multiple incomes being included in that 48K.

And if a single person's income is required to be 41K, then we're talking a 7K/yr difference from a household that is bringing in multiple income.

Additionally, that 48K includes other various incomes such as unemployment, disability...etc. However, even though those incomes are included in the 48K, the persons who are bringing in that income are not counted as wage earners.

sapperskunk

IlovveePJ wrote:

I'm an American kid, and I am not stupid. I am very intelligent.....

I'm sure you are a very bright young person, BUT, how do you stack up against the rest of the world?

IlovveePJ

sapperskunk wrote:

I'm sure you are a very bright young person, BUT, how do you stack up against the rest of the world?

I would say quite positively! haha (:

ONCE DEVIDED

A lady at the start complained her 18 year old cant read. I wonder if she ever read to him, encouraged him to read at home etc.
its the parents responsablity to make their kids learn, not teachers. teacher only give the tools.

sponger

Speaking of US education levels in terms of their impact on the US economy, here is what former Secretary of Commerce Mickey Kantor had to say about it:

"A more serious long-term problem, he said, has been the decline in the American public education system, especially in math and science."

"Last year Intel held science fairs in the United States. And there were 65,000 young people who attended them. Do you know how many young people attended science fairs in China last year? How many kids showed up? About six million. Six million!"

http://www.international.ucla.edu/article.asp?parentid=25322

PaperPlates

sponger wrote:

Speaking of US education levels in terms of their impact on the US economy, here is what former Secretary of Commerce Mickey Kantor had to say about it:



http://www.international.ucla.edu/article.asp?parentid=25322

Whats China's population again?

Hinny

At least 1.3 billion. So 4 1/2 times the US population.

Collin

Yay Belgium! Although I fear Belgium is lowering its standards.

Collin

cutback wrote:

I've watched about 15 minutes and the same question keeps running through my head - what about the parents? Take the 18 year old who can't read. His mother keeps blaming the schools. But what did she do? When he was 10, did you notice he couldn't read? What action did you take to make sure your son could read? The school can't do it all.

Sure, I think the mother should definitely partake in educating her son. But how the hell can an 18-year-old pass any classes in the States if he can't even read? I think that says a lot about US schools.

reversedarwinism

Collin wrote:

Sure, I think the mother should definitely partake in educating her son. But how the hell can an 18-year-old pass any classes in the States if he can't even read? I think that says a lot about US schools.

no shit. i don't blame the teachers completely though. alot of parents just don't give a shit or think of their teenage kids as babies and don't want their feeling hurt. the teachers are often forced to pass along the dumbass kids who ,like their parents, don't give a shit about the right things.

sponger

I think teachers these days are afraid of getting shot in the face if they piss off the right student. Also, I blame rap music. The marketing that young people are exposed to these days doesn't help either. Kids aren't motivated to work hard through school when they see basketball players and drug dealers driving around in benzos and sporting gold grills. Also, rap music is to blame.

This reminds me of an episode of sweet 16 I saw a while back. It was the episode with the super hot arab chick. During that episode she goes shopping with her friend and a couple of guys.

The two guys that she was hanging with looked like the biggest douchebags I had ever seen. They were fully hip-hopped out, had the gangstah strut, and just basically acted like a couple of guys who would probably never contribute anything to society, only live on their parents fortune.

And I think that's the problem. When all the hot chicks are going to POS douchebag ganstah wanna-be jackasses, why would any guy want to study and make something of himself?

Another thing that comes to mind is bullying. With so many of these POS douchebag ganstah wanna-be jackasses running around high school campuses and looking for attention from stupid hot chicks, bullying is probably a major issue moreso now than it was even back when I was in high school.

From the perspective of the adolescent who is going through puberty, it just doesn't pay to be smart in high school. And once people fuck up in high school, it's nearly impossible to pick things back up. They've already screwed themselves out of the best colleges and scholarships.

And this leads me to my next theory, which is that gangs wouldn't exist if it weren't for the pussy that gangsters get. I didn't go to a gang-infested high school, but my younger brother did. According to him, guys who are bonified gang members have their pick of the neighborhood females.

Can you imagine if being in a gang did not pay in the form of getting laid? This would make gang members into basically nerds. No one would want to be in gangs if that were the case.

And that's my theory. If girls in high school started giving head to the chess club instead of the football team, the United States of America would have the best math scores and the best science projects the world has ever seen. Nothing is a more powerful motivating force than sex.