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The stupid future in store for America
sfgate.com — Sobering article about one teacher's glum outlook on America's youth.
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- ironeus, on 08/01/2008, -1/+4As I was following the article's argument, I liked the introduction of generational relativity because for all we know this can simply be the social network/ 21st century version of what our parents said about their children, and so on. The only part that irked me is that as the writer is discussing America's dumbing-down he raises the question of where the young top minds of today came from; and proposes the may have been "... raised elsewhere, in India and Asia and Russia" is this a joke?? either list countries or continents, otherwise all that sentence achieves is the dumbing down of geographical knowledge.
- hollywoodphony, on 07/23/2008, -0/+1I agree completely. I kinda feel like this was happening 50 years ago when kids started watching TV. And to think that the only smart students are foreign-born is ridiculous.
- Holmebrew, on 07/22/2008, -0/+1Kids! ***** 'em (so to speak).
- reflex768, on 07/23/2008, -0/+2I remember very clearly teachers of mine making nearly identical apocalyptic predictions about the state of youth and education in the 1980s. Back then though it was the children of Japan and Germany who were going to inherit the Earth. Somewhere along the way teachers have quietly replaced those two with China and India, without revising their pessimistic assessment. Funny.
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