Without the school system filling their heads with bullshit, they'd have some critical thinking skills, some education on why our society is built the way it is, and consequently possess the ability to resist the propaganda.
From where I'm sitting it is 'all schools'. The fundamental purpose of modern public education is at odds with social order and cultural advancement.
There isn't a public school in the country that doesn't dumb down their curriculum so that the stupidest kid in the class is setting the standard. That behavior has been universal in all public education for decades, and has been a flaming radioactive train wreck for our culture. Instead of the dumb kid learning early and often that he/she needs to work even harder to compensate, dumb kid gets rewarded for being dumb, and the smart kids get bored. Before long, they disengage from education completely.
Participation trophy education fails ALL the kids, not just some of them.
Incidentally, did you know that during the era of our founding, it was not uncommon for children under the age of ten to learn, and be expected to understand, advanced trigonometry? Today, that same group can barely do their multiplication tables.
Youth is a precious time, a human being is capable of learning and retaining a vast quantity of skills and information in those formative years, the likes of which they'll never see again. We waste the children's best learning years with utterly meaningless social activities designed to make the parents feel good, and as a result the rest of the world is leaving American children further and further behind.
It depends on the school, the school di SD trict, and the state it is in.
I would say the traditional media is our greatest enemy. Purveying lies and distortions at national, state and local levels.
Why do people believe the lies?
Without the school system filling their heads with bullshit, they'd have some critical thinking skills, some education on why our society is built the way it is, and consequently possess the ability to resist the propaganda.
It all starts with the schools.
No argument with your reasoning above, but I do take exception that it is "all schools".
What children receive varies widely across the country, especially by state, the by school district, and finally the individual school.
And reform starts at the local and state levels.
From where I'm sitting it is 'all schools'. The fundamental purpose of modern public education is at odds with social order and cultural advancement.
There isn't a public school in the country that doesn't dumb down their curriculum so that the stupidest kid in the class is setting the standard. That behavior has been universal in all public education for decades, and has been a flaming radioactive train wreck for our culture. Instead of the dumb kid learning early and often that he/she needs to work even harder to compensate, dumb kid gets rewarded for being dumb, and the smart kids get bored. Before long, they disengage from education completely.
Participation trophy education fails ALL the kids, not just some of them.
Incidentally, did you know that during the era of our founding, it was not uncommon for children under the age of ten to learn, and be expected to understand, advanced trigonometry? Today, that same group can barely do their multiplication tables.
Youth is a precious time, a human being is capable of learning and retaining a vast quantity of skills and information in those formative years, the likes of which they'll never see again. We waste the children's best learning years with utterly meaningless social activities designed to make the parents feel good, and as a result the rest of the world is leaving American children further and further behind.