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MORE MONEY, DUMBER KIDS

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It’s hysterical reading a NYT article about the atrocious state of our public education system. They give a couple of paragraphs with some hand picked facts, and then spend 75% of the article with excuses from the government drone bureaucrats, union teachers, and liberal academics. They have been rolling out Common Core for years. The amount of money spent per student has been going up for decades. We’ve had Headstart. We’ve had no child left behind. We’ve integrated the schools to make black kids smarter. We’ve implemented the curriculum demanded by the Federal government.

And kids just keep getting dumber and dumber. Only 40% of all Fourth graders are proficient at math. The most hysterical part of the report is that after four more years of government education, everyone’s proficiency DROPS. By eight grade, proficiency in math plunges to 33%. It’s almost as if the government wants to produce generations of dumb downed morons who remain willfully ignorant for their entire lives.

You can now see why the social justice warriors want to eliminate standardized testing. It seems black kids and hispanic kids, after decades of Great Society programs totaling $13 trillion, haven’t exactly caught on to maff and reading. If these tests are so terrible, why do Asians score 460% better than blacks and 40% better than whites in eight grade?

They should test kids on how well they use a smart phone, texting speed, and what drugs Lamar Odom used on his weekend binge at a whorehouse. The funniest part is if you asked kids in eighth grade how smart they thought they were, the scores would be above the 80th percentile. These kids are so stupid, they don’t even know they’re stupid. All those participation trophies and being passed along from grade to grade with no requirement to actually learn anything has given these idiots high self-esteem to go along with their stupidity. What a combination.

Via NYT

Nationwide Test Shows Dip in Students’ Math Abilities

For the first time since 1990, the mathematical skills of American students have dropped, according to results of a nationwide test released by the Education Department on Wednesday.

The decline appeared in both Grades 4 and 8 in an exam administered every two years as the National Assessment of Educational Progress and sometimes called “the nation’s report card.”

The dip in scores comes as the country’s employers demand workers with ever-stronger skills in mathematics to compete in a global economy. It also comes as states grapple with the new Common Core academic standards and a rebellion against them.

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AMERICAN KIDS HAVE NEVER BEEN DUMBER

This is fucking ridiculous. The taxpayers of this country fund the bloated government run public school systems in this country to the tune of $11,000 per kid per year. Billions are spent supposedly educating our youth. The spending has risen astronomically since the early 1970s. The government has imposed a warped socialization agenda in the public schools taught mostly by mediocre union teachers. The result is there for all to see. SAT scores have sunk to new lows as spending has reached new highs. The control freak liberals screaming for more money to fund bloated teacher salaries, benefits and pensions don’t give a crap about your kid’s education. They want to fill their union coffers with your hard earned money.

The bigger disgrace is the fact that only 28% of all high school graduates score at a level that would predict at least a C average in college. Then why are 66% of all high school graduates enrolling in college? It’s because Obama and his minions care not whether the kids are intellectually capable of succeeding in college? Everyone gets a loan. No child left behind from student loan slavery. So we have millions of bone headed morons with billions in debt, and even smart kids who won’t get a job in this shitty economy, with unpayable levels of debt.

You the taxpayer have dumped hundreds of billions into the government public school system, which has produced a nation of idiots, and now you the taxpayer will be on the hook for hundreds of billions in bad debt student loans made to the idiots by Obama and his liberal minions. What a fucking country.

Americans Have Never Been Dumber

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 09/03/2015 11:52 -0400

Three years ago, we noted the dumbification of America was accelerating as SAT scores hit record lows. It appears the need for the Derek Zoolander Center For Kids Who Can’t Read Good And Wanna Learn To Do Other Stuff Good Too has never been greater as Bloomberg reports that students in the high school class of 2015 turned in the lowest critical reading score on the SAT college entrance exam in more than 40 years, with all three sections declining from the previous year.

The mean score on the math portion of the SAT, 511, is the lowest since 1999. The highest possible score on each section is 800.

The reading score of 495 is the worst since 1972, according to data provided by the College Board.

The test administrator reported the lowest score for the SAT’s writing section since it began in 2005.

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But apart from that… “I am Cait” is on later…

COMMON CORE REQUIRES FRIENDLY ANSWERS TO MATH PROBLEMS

If your 2nd grader can add and subtract the way you learned to add and subtract, they will be told they are wrong. How did it come to this? When did we let the inmates take over the asylum? When did we allow our children to be brain washed with gibberish taught by mediocre union government employees?

The propaganda spewing government educators want our kids to be more friendly with their answers. We are so fucked as a society.

Via The Daily Caller

This Common Core math problem asks kids to write the ‘friendly’ answer, instead of the correct one!

Posted By Robby Soave On 10:06 PM 03/25/2014

A second grader’s answers to a Common Core-aligned math worksheet were marked as incorrect because they weren’t “friendly” enough… even though they were the right answers.

A screenshot of the worksheet was posted to Twitter. The teacher wrote that even though the questions — addition and subtraction problems — were solved correctly, the student used the wrong technique to arrive at the answers.

@Talkmaster a 2nd graders Common Core math homework. pic.twitter.com/mkGGVA0bJ1

— Sam Heath (@smheath11) March 25, 2014

“Correct answers, but let’s find the ‘friendly’ numbers,” wrote the teacher.

The teacher wanted the student to solve “530 – 270 = ?” in the following manner: First, add 30 to both numbers, changing the problem to “560 – 300 = ?”. These numbers are the “friendly” numbers, because they are supposedly easier to work with.

The student, however, simply subtracted 270 from 530 the good old-fashioned way, arriving at the same answer. Unfortunately, this is not a Common Core-approved technique.

Though friendly numbers can be useful, the worksheet illustrates the weird priorities of Common Core, according to Twitchy:

In Common Core math, it often is not good enough to get the correct answer. Instead, students are required to show “higher order” thinking skills — in this case, use of the associative property. Yes, the associative property is important and should be taught at some point. Unfortunately, we suspect that many 7-year olds will not be able to understand this particular assignment. With limited days in the school year, wouldn’t second graders — second graders! — be better off spending their time attempting to master the traditional subtraction algorithm?

The Daily Caller readers know that this is not the first Common Core worksheet to baffle young children and infuriate adults.