In regards to the article you posted, in high school all my classes started switching over to reading and math courses geared to doing well on the state tests. That’s all we learned over and over. How to solve common questions on those tests. What we were learning bored me. It didn’t make me think. It required no real skill or thought process. It was the same shit over and over every year. Now wonder we are so stupid. I used to love learning before it became all about the state tests.

Thanks for the message. I know what you mean..

Everything in education seems to be just “processed” anymore, like McDonalds food. The same education everywhere.. no matter the class size or background of the student. I cannot even imagine many schools teaching local history anymore.. nothing relating to things that matter to the area a child is growing up in.. 

I am not an education expert—though I have debated as of late whether I should go back to school for a certificate to teach—so until then I cannot really exclaim I know the problems and errors within our system. 

But I can say this.. what we are doing is not working. We are raising a generation shaky on basics, and almost absent many fundamentals that other nations have—and our collective hind end is being handed to us with a big giant bow on it..

Again.. something needs to be done to alleviate the masses of the asses, and bring the herd up to speed on what really matters. 

A 21st century style of teaching … something else needs to be done in the modern era..

And maybe it already started and I missed the beginning—perhaps others out there with a subject matter expertise on such things can enlighten me and give me hope. Until then… adults in the US of A will just be plain out dumber than the rest of the world..