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Dumbing down America

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by: Retired_Engineer Active Indicator LED Icon 13 OP 
~ 9 years ago   Sep 1, '14 4:02pm  
Now that schools won't let teachers fail students (Special thanks for that stupidity from Hillary's "No Child Left Behind" crap) and imitating ghetto and street talk is expanding into the middle class, I guess writing like this will become increasingly more common. 4951
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~ 9 years ago   Sep 1, '14 4:05pm  
The three aspects of people, from highest to lowest, are spiritual, intellectual  (the soul, thinking) and physical (emotion).America moved from spiritual to intellectual.  America is now completing the move from intellectual to physical/emotional.I feel, therefore I get. 4951
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Retired_Engineer Active Indicator LED Icon 13 OP 
~ 9 years ago   Sep 1, '14 4:16pm  
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Retired_Engineer Active Indicator LED Icon 13 OP 
~ 9 years ago   Sep 1, '14 4:20pm  
Sadly, the value of a high school diploma is dropping to nothing now that schools are graduating morons just to get them through the system.  The may have a diploma, but many are still idiots.  4951
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Retired_Engineer Active Indicator LED Icon 13 OP 
~ 9 years ago   Sep 1, '14 4:48pm  
I know that everyone can make a spelling or grammar mistake, but doesn't anyone bother having someone proof-read or spell-check what they write?  Especially businesses!They are in the sign business!!!Even teachers make mistakes.Spell check is a wonderful thing, but you still need the basics of spelling to make sure spell-check picks the right word.Another case of someone not knowing the difference between our and are.There are thousands of these examples all around us.  I won't even mention the stupid people that get tattoos of misspelled words or bad grammar.   People are slowly turning into idiots.  If you've ever seen the movie titled "Idiocracy", that's our future. 4951
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~ 9 years ago   Sep 1, '14 4:49pm  
I hardly believe you can blame those signs on Hillary.  Put blame where it is due.  The failure belongs to the parents first, the child second and teachers third.  Parents, first and foremost, should be working with their children.  This starts with reading to them as babies.  When children go to school the parents should be checking homework nightly.  Children should have pride in their work.  Teachers are there to educate our children, not raise them.  Difficult to educate ignorant heatherns who are disrespectful.  Parents need to step up, check report cards, go to parent-teacher meetings, etc.   4951
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~ 9 years ago   Sep 1, '14 4:52pm  
Funny stuff 4951
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~ 9 years ago   Sep 1, '14 4:53pm  
Here is one I took myself at a convenience store near my work in the Fifth Ward 4951
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~ 9 years ago   Sep 1, '14 5:51pm  
No Child Left Behind is a relic of the Bush Travesty.  And wait til she's president before you start blaming Hillary. 4951
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~ 9 years ago   Sep 1, '14 6:12pm  
Removed By Request 4951
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~ 9 years ago   Sep 1, '14 8:43pm  
No Child Left Behind is a relic of the Bush Travesty.  And wait til she's president before you start blaming Hillary.
 
@EllaMentry: I hope Chris, Sean, Glen and Tyrone did not hear you say that.
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Retired_Engineer Active Indicator LED Icon 13 OP 
~ 9 years ago   Sep 1, '14 8:46pm  
My apologies on blaming Hillary for the "No Child Left Behind" crap.  I mistook it for her foolish "It Takes A Village" crap.The "No Child Left Behind" was what started the school system focusing on the lowest level students.  Instead of allowing students to fail and try again, they have to hold better students back until the lesser students can catch up with them...... which rarely happens.  It doesn't take a village to raise a child, it takes responsible parents to do what they are supposed to do instead of trying to be their child's "buddy".   Once the child is fully grown and is a working member of society, then you can work on being their buddy.  As children, they NEED discipline and a good example from parents. As Bill Cosby said, (something to this effect) "How do you expect children to speak intelligent English when they hear crap at home from their parents?"@Humbletexan1:  I didn't directly blame all those signs on Hillary, but I agree with the rest of your post.  @EllaMentry:  I blame her for the "It Takes A Village" mentality.  I've seen enough of her to know that I never want to see her in office.  As an elementary school teacher, are you getting pressure to pass kids that should fail?  What about parental involvement in the education of their children?My son teaches at a high school now and is getting fairly good parental involvement.  However, when he taught at a low-income middle school in Atascosita,  only a few parents were involved, or even interested, in their children's education.  By the time they reach high school, the students are either:Eager to graduateWilling to graduateDon't really care but their parents make them graduateDon't care and their parents don't care if they graduateHave fallen so far behind, they will graduate only because the system won't allow failures 4951
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~ 9 years ago   Sep 1, '14 8:48pm  
I shouldn't talk as I'm the worlds biggest mis speller and grammar flop but even I would have caught this before it went out.....LOLhttp://www.westernjournalism.com/schools-prom-theme-reveals-pathetic-public-education-become/ 4951
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~ 9 years ago   Sep 1, '14 9:18pm  
you might also consider the part modern journalism plays in this fiasco. first they hire barely literate 'reporters' (and you might toss into the mix that more and more the real reporters have been laid off or bought out of their jobs as the news machines go to cheap sources of news i.e. the dumbshit down the street with a cellphone) these reporters don't know the difference so the people reading their rubbish begin to accept mistaken word usage and misspellings as unimportant. add to that the fact that a lot of news sources are getting real trendy and hip with video only, no text material and you can see this is going to get even more charming as the lazy **** who don't want to read get reinforced in their mistakes by aural input rather than the printed word. 4951
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~ 9 years ago   Sep 1, '14 9:24pm  
you might also consider the part modern journalism plays in this fiasco. first they hire barely literate 'reporters' (and you might toss into the mix that more and more the real reporters have been laid off or bought out of their jobs as the news machines go to cheap sources of news i.e. the dumbshit down the street with a cellphone) these reporters don't know the difference so the people reading their rubbish begin to accept mistaken word usage and misspellings as unimportant. add to that the fact that a lot of news sources are getting real trendy and hip with video only, no text material and you can see this is going to get even more charming as the lazy **** who don't want to read get reinforced in their mistakes by aural input rather than the printed word.
 
@ProblemAgain: would you simplify this for me?
 
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~ 9 years ago   Sep 1, '14 9:38pm  

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>> you might also consider the part modern journalism plays in this fiasco. first they hire barely literate 'reporters' (and you might toss into the mix that more and more the real reporters have been laid off or bought out of their jobs as the news machines go to cheap sources of news i.e. the dumbshit down the street with a cellphone) these reporters don't know the difference so the people reading their rubbish begin to accept mistaken word usage and misspellings as unimportant. add to that the fact that a lot of news sources are getting real trendy and hip with video only, no text material and you can see this is going to get even more charming as the lazy **** who don't want to read get reinforced in their mistakes by aural input rather than the printed word.
 
@ProblemAgain: would you simplify this for me?
 
 
@BooBear: the new standard is ******* semireporters (the dumbshit with a cellphone) who gather the news cheaper because they only get paid piecework like the papparazzi. since they don't type it, print it or read it, they (and the viewers) don't know the difference between our and are, there and their or any of the other common substitutions, and the stupidity spreads like ripples in the pool from the flatulent guy
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