What the hell are they teaching our kids in high school? They fill their brains full of green energy and global warming crap, but they can’t manage to teach them the basics about economics. They learn about the glories of diversity, but not about compounding interest on credit card debt? Only 43% of all high school students even have a proficient or better understanding of economics. The politically correct MSM gives their propaganda version of the report. I opened the report to get a few more facts. Here are a few tidbits:
- The percentage of proficients students in private schools was 62%.
- The percentage of proficient students in government run public schools was 41%.
- The percentage of below basic (dullards/retards) in government public schools was 19% versus 9% in private schools.
- The percentage of white and asian students that were proficient totaled 53% and 52% respectively. Only 11% and 15% were below basic.
- The percentage of black students that were proficient totaled 17%, while the percentage below basic totaled 39%. (I’m racist for pointing this out. It is nowhere to be seen in the MSM articles)
- The percentage of boys that were proficient was 47% versus 38% of girls.
I don’t want to hear the liberal crap about private schools having more money to spend. That’s a bullshit storyline. Catholic schools spend 20% to 30% less per student than the stinking city of Philadelphia. For $12,000 per year, a high school senior should know what GDP stands for. When you see the pitiful result produced by the government run, union teacher controlled, public school system, you wonder whether they are actually achieving the result they want. I’d love to see the results from just the Democratic run urban shitholes.
This country’s warped demented economic system depends upon luring millions of financially clueless dupes into student loan, credit card, auto and mortgage debt at an ever increasing rate in order to sustain Wall Street and the mega-corporations that run this country. If 90% of high school seniors understood basic economics, our economy would collapse because there wouldn’t be enough idiots to bilk. The government wants you just smart enough to drive a car, sign a credit card application, and flip a burger at McDonalds. They don’t want you smart enough to realize that making the minimum payment on a 21% credit card will add up to $100,000 of interest over the next 20 years. They don’t want you smart enough to question a national debt of $16.8 trillion or unfunded liabilities of $220 trillion. They certainly don’t want you to understand inflation or the true purpose of the Federal Reserve.
The government wants more useful idiots to screw, without protest. It looks like they’ve achieved their goal.
http://nces.ed.gov/nationsreportcard/subject/publications/main2012/pdf/2013453.pdf
