Authored by Michael Snyder via The End of The American Dream blog,
How in the world is America supposed to remain “the greatest country on Earth” when other nations are absolutely running circles around us when it comes to education? As you will see below, one survey found that 15-year-old students in China are almost four full grade levels ahead of 15-year-old students in the United States in mathematics. This is one of the most damning indictments of our education system that I have ever come across, and it is yet another clear indication that what we are doing is simply not working. Our children are not being given the tools that they need to compete in our modern society, and we have only ourselves to blame.
Perhaps you are thinking that the survey must be flawed somehow.
Well, this wasn’t some fluky survey that was only given to a handful of students. Every three years, the Program for International Student Assessment evaluates 15-year-old students all over the world in a variety of subject areas, and in 2018 approximately 32 million students participated…
The Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) is a survey given to 15-year-old students around the world every three years, which tests the core subjects of reading, mathematics, and science. In 2018, 79 countries and economies participated, representing about 32 million 15-year-olds.
When your sample size is 32 million students, I think that it is safe to say that the results of the survey should be taken seriously.
And what the survey discovered is that U.S. students continue to fall behind in math. In particular, we have fallen way, way behind the Chinese. The following comes from Psychology Today…
There is no excuse for the US when students in Beijing-Shanghai-Jiangsu-Zhejiang (B-S-J-Z) performed near four grade levels ahead of US students in mathematics.
In addition, the survey also discovered that the “most disadvantaged” students in China actually performed on par with the average U.S. student…
“The 10% most disadvantaged students in Beijing-Shanghai-Jiangsu-Zhejiang (B-S-J-Z) or in Macao or Estonia… those students actually do as well or better than the average student in the US. So clearly some countries do better with their disadvantaged students, where you see less variability with students from the most privileged backgrounds,” said Andreas Schleicher.
What in the world has happened to us?
We used to have the best education system in the entire world, but now we have become a nation of drooling idiots that can’t even think straight.
Let me give you an example. According to Fox News, a police officer in Los Angeles was recently caught sexually fondling a dead woman by his own body-cam…
The veteran Los Angeles cop, who is assigned to downtown’s Central Division, was caught on his own body-cam footage allegedly fondling the dead woman, and his supervisors have reviewed the video, according to the Los Angeles Times.
The alleged incident took place when the LAPD officer and his partner responded to a call about a possible dead woman in a residential unit, the newspaper reported, citing sources.
That is dumb on so many levels, and now that police officer’s career is over.
Let me give you another example of how dumb we have become. South Dakota has decided to crack down on the meth epidemic in their state, but unfortunately not a lot of thought was put into the advertising slogan for the campaign…
The state of South Dakota has a new anti-drug campaign, but its slogan is raising eyebrows.
Because it is “Meth. We’re on it.”
Which could be taken the wrong way.
You think?
Of course it is much dumber to actually be on meth. Approximately 24 million Americans have taken an illegal drug within the last 30 days, and it is getting worse with each passing year.
I know that I am being very hard on the United States in this article, but there is no excuse for what has happened to us.
We were once a great light to the rest of the world, but today a large chunk of our population can barely read, write, speak or function in society. Just consider the following numbers…
#1 One recent survey found that 74 percent of Americans don’t even know how many amendments are in the Bill of Rights.
#2 An earlier survey discovered that 37 percent of Americans cannot name a single right protected by the First Amendment.
#3 Shockingly, only 26 percent of Americans can name all three branches of government.
#4 During the 2016 election, more than 40 percent of Americans did not know who was running for vice-president from either of the major parties.
#5 North Carolina is considering passing a law which would “mean only scores lower than 39 percent would qualify for an F grade” in North Carolina public schools.
#6 30 years ago, the United States awarded more high school diplomas than anyone in the world. Today, we have fallen to 36th place.
#7 According to the Pentagon, 71 percent of our young adults are ineligible to serve in the U.S. military because they are either too dumb, too fat or have a criminal background.
#8 For the very first time, Americans are more likely to die from an opioid overdose than they are in a car accident.
#9 One study discovered that one-third of all American teenagers haven’t read a single book in the past year.
#10 A recent survey found that 45 percent of U.S. teenagers are online “almost constantly”.
#11 Today, the average American spends 86 hours a month using a smartphone.
#12 Overall, the average U.S. adult “logs 6 hours, 43 minutes of total screen time daily”.
#13 In more than half of all U.S. states, the highest paid public employee in the state is a football coach.
#14 During one seven day period last summer, a total of 16,000 official complaints about human feces were submitted to the city of San Francisco. And apparently the problem is very real because one investigation found 300 piles of human feces on the streets of downtown San Francisco.
#15 Every 24 hours, more than a third of all Americans eat fast food.
#16 Less than half of all Americans know which country used atomic bombs at the end of World War II.
#17 Even though we fought a war in Iraq for eight long years, 6 out of 10 young adults cannot find Iraq on a map of the Middle East. And that same survey found that 75 percent of our young adults cannot locate Israel.
#18 Today, the average college freshman in the United States reads at a 7th grade level.
Are you convinced yet?
As a society, we have become exceedingly “dumbed down”, and we can even see this at the highest levels of our government. Just take a look at some of the people we have representing us in Congress. If George Washington, John Adams and Thomas Jefferson were alive today, what do you think that they would make of our current crop of politicians?
When our founders spoke, their language was so elegant. But of course we couldn’t have politicians speak to us that way today because nobody would be able to understand what they were saying.
Our society is literally in a death spiral, but nobody seems to have a way to stop it.
Educating our children properly is one of the most basic things that needs to be addressed, but unfortunately the left has total control of our public schools now, and that means that there is no hope of a major turnaround any time soon.
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Very depressing. How can the country continue with dolts in the majority?
Parents have become lazy. They no longer push their children to succeed and therefore, they don’t. Participation trophies should have been a sign that something was seriously wrong a long time ago. I’d say two generations of idiots are part of the population mix. These folks are useless and demand to be kept alive by the remaining productive members of the society.
I say screw them. When the SHTF, millions are going to riot. TPTsB will suck the life out of anyone with funds to support the human trash, until there’s nothing left to steal. That’s the future. It sucks.
“How can the country continue with dolts in the majority?”
it won’t. that’s the intent.
Government schools are nothing more than baby sitting service, and leftist indoctrination camps. I’m sure they are being brain washed with ever conceivable sexual deviation known to man.
Great comment.We need more math whizzes and less good, honest Christian dolts, because Wall Street and their stooges in US government’s alphabet agencies ain’t fucking US hard enough. If we could just raise the national math scores , the economy would grow just China’s and we’d all be rich and living in peace.
The world we live in can only be defined and described in mathematical terms. If you do not understand math then you do not understand anything. It is really that simple.
“Diversity is our stength”, the jackasses cry. Interesting how as diversity increased our student’s abilities decreased. The scholoastic levels had to decline or it would be too obvious what group(s) were responsible for the disparity. A two-fer. Dumb us all down and hide the fact that blacks can’t assimilate into a high IQ society.
“Diversity is our strength”
we could use a few more americanized asians ….
Diversity is the problem. The bottom 10% of Chinese students are still Chinese. Meanwhile 50% of our population are brainless idiots with no drive anyway. Add to that the fact that our schools teach leftist indoctrination instead of actual subjects and you can see how we got here.
I sent both of my kids to private school K-12. It was worth it.
Doesn’t matter how smart or Americanized Asians are. They belong in their own countries. Not in ours. Our educational resources should be focused on White children only. And the war on White boys should end yesterday.
The word is scholastic . The comma goes inside the quotation marks. The apostrophe for the plural “students” goes after the s. And you have the nerve to make a racist disparaging comment about others’ IQ. Moron.
https://dailycaller.com/2019/12/03/detroit-valedictorian-math-msu/
Maff be hard.
“Chinese Students Are 4 Grade Levels Ahead Of US Students In Math”
well, the chinese students are cherry-picked. they discard the below-superior students, and only report the superior students. meanwhile “american” student statistics include drop-out blacks and mañana mexicans and doper whites. furthermore the chinese (and asians in general) focus on memorization, not on application, so while they may be “good” at math tests, their culture deprecates the real-world benefits of knowing math whereas in ours they are promoted.
Forget to read the article homey?
I read it, and it says the Chinese students they tested came from the 4 biggest (and richest?) cities. That means they tested the best students (folks in rural areas get jack). Our scores were from all over the spectrum. That’s how ALL of these moronic country-comparison studies are done,be it education, health care, or whatever… they are designed to make us feel inferior, so we will **spend more $$$ on a worthless system! ** China does have plenty of bright, gifted students, and so do we. This IS something to be mildly concerned about, but not panicked. The Chinese still cant invent anything; they have to steal our tech. We must burn our ed systems to the ground for plenty of good reasons, but NOT bc of deceitful comparison studies.
“china does have plenty of bright, gifted students, and so do we.”
well, they outnumber us 4:1. but theirs are all locked up in a confucianist/communist culture where the authorities tell them what is true and what is false or else. this grossly blunts their advantage. on the other hand our system, crippled by affirmative action and assaulted by social justice, no longer is all that much better anymore. it’s a race of the cripples to see who fails first. I give us 2:3 odds of outlasting them.
Correct. The one thing engineers comment on is the wide gap between the theory , math and equations and the actual real world applications and development. Now this isnt to say that US society is dumb as rocks courtesy of government schools and teachers unions and “selfie” concerns, but math in and of itself is a long list of classes over years and years before ever getting to math that can be applied to real world scenarios.
It was fun while it lasted. Anyway, all Empires throughout history have died eventually.
Once it goes brown it all goes down. The only thing going up is poverty and crime.
Bu the time a lot of kids are 18 they are still unable to determine if they are a boy or girl.
Only 4? We are in better shape than I thought. Seriously.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/muhammad-becomes-a-top-10-name-for-american-babies
Support Vouchers so no White or Asian kids are left behind in the public school system.
Chinese learn math easily,but apparently after thousand of years of trial and error have never figured out how to build a free society. Import a few million more of the math whiz, left leaning, dog eaters . The Republic can’t end fast enough.
A society’s economic wealth is driven by increases in productivity. Productivity increases with technological innovation. Substandard education will hamper innovation. Thus, as other parts of the world move forward with innovation, our country will stagnate and lose the wealth it previously earned. Not such a bright future
Common core guarantees students will continue to get dumber. Common core math is unusable garbage.
My budds wife teaches college english. She sends me bits and pieces of stupidity that would blow your mind.
My bud’s wife teaches college English.
Tell her to stop sending you the stuff, it’s ruining your writing skills.
We must learn the maths to succeed, and when we succeed, the high paying jobs must be sent far away to others who will work for snakes, crickets and cockroaches, tastefully prepared of course. And, soon they too learn the maths, and when they succeed, the maths must be passed onto the machines who never sleep or eat or unionize for higher wages. And they too will learn the maths, and then succeed as one. They are the Borg.
And, thus Nirvanna is achieved .Thank the maths, man will reached the pinnacle of freedom from prosperity. We will have arrived!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTW0y6kazWM
Half the population thinks that we can somehow afford to put everyone on Medicare despite the program currently sitting on over $31Trillion in unfunded liabilities (usdebtclock.org). ONLY 5 grades behind? Try a few more.
Does that really matter LOL…
As long as these young skulls of mush graduate with a degree in transsexual lesbian underwater basket weaving and vote extreme leftist socialist on everything .
Oh and have a very high opinion of themselves and net worth to any endeavor they choose we should all want to compensate them in a way and manor they believe they have earned !
The college professors that never participated in the real world told them so
Well, fuck. The only possible solution must be to import sub-70 IQ niggers, by the millions, right?
We couldn’t possibly arrange society to actually work for white families again.
That might be racist.
Gee, think it might have something to do with brain-destroying vaccinations?
My kid’s schools have pushed advanced math for a while. I wonder what all this math will lead to? Basic math and reading are not pushed that much. No history classes. I guess dumb people are easier to control.
The Chinese make junk. Compare their products to Japanese products. There’s no comparison. I think stuff should be made here.
I’m old enough to remember when Japanese goods were colloquially known as “Jap Crap” and that Chinese Junk was a nice boat.
Comfortably Dumb.
Duh.
The really stupid part is the fact anyone still believes public school is supposed to educate children. Read John Taylor Gatto. 30+ year public school teacher. He can cite you quotes from progressive educators who state, in no uncertain terms, their goal in education reform was to crank out people just smart enough to run the cash register for their privately-educated betters. Public school is doing its job if the kids coming out are minimally capable of turning the gas pumps on, making change, and keeping the coffee pot full.
Almost 40 years ago I asked my father why all the planets were named after Greek/Roman Gods. His answer rings true to this day…..”Well son, niggers did not have telescopes”. My father was a very wise man and I miss him to this day….RIP