Next Generation - I really do 'feel' for you...And Shame on your parents!
Submitted by Mattdog51 on Wed, 02/08/2012 - 03:21Our next generation, with this video as a example, offers a true lack of hope.
It is a glimpse, a splinter into one High School...but damn!
Ron Paul has legions of young supporters, and they are growing...but obviously not fast enough. Parents bear total responsibility, though I will note, public schools are really pushing the stupid card vs. prior decades.
I attended Chicago Public Schools 80's/early 90's...(Rated worst in the nation). Drop out rate was 65% coming out of H.S. Bt still, no way - at all - any of us was this ignorant.
Video thanks SENIOR12913612
Congratulations, public school system!
It is indeed sad when the parents don't realize their children don't know American heritage, but what can they do when so much of the public school system discredits parents during a good chunk of the day nearly every day? No, I do believe this amount of ignorance is largely the Department of Education's fault. I look forward to seeing it go.
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I'm impressed.
I'm impressed.
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The wisest man in the world once said:
There is nothing new under the sun. Oh the blame game! - but yes, "where you end usually depends on where you start".
Ephesians 6:1-4
Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.
Honour thy father and mother; (which is the first commandment with promise;)
That it may be well with thee, and thou mayest live long on the earth.
And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.
Freedom is not: doing everything you want to.
Freedom is: not having to do what you don't want to do.
~ Joyce Meyer
I had to cry
I was laughing so hard!
The best is "name a country that starts with the letter U"
ROFL!
Funny but not true
My daughter is spending a entire trimester in 8th grade studying the constitution. In 5th and 6th grades the school they (my 4 children) attend pushes geography hard. We are a small rural school K-8 in northern california. They are shutting down our bus service and have eliminated music programs, but the academics stay strong. Big schools=bad teaching just like Big government=bad governing.
Blue Republican
Pathetic
Absolutely pathetic.
Not Gen Y,
but Gen X'r here. (Never liked that term...)
I'm very glad to see that the older folks are getting it, even the ones who aren't political junkies. Though I must say, my parents should not feel shame, for without them I wouldn't have learned the reality of our world at such a young age. They weren't perfect, but they saw all this coming 20 years ago.
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Not only are your parents not perfect, but neither were mine
It is fairly safe to guess neither are you, or any of us. Blame is not the issue at hand, action and commitment to our movement is! Sorry but this continuous playing of the blame game is quite unproductive, imo. Remember, it is those older folks who have also produced the bread on our plates, the roofs over our heads and other little niceties as we were growing up. Now it is time for all of us to work together to get back on track for soon this will be all the younger generations' responsibility. While I will assume nothing, I'm looking forward to that perfect world you in your wisdom will provide. Good people, honest, hard working people who have been brought up in a world where one was to taught to trust one's perceived authority figures, they tend to trust, perhaps too easily. That does not make them undeserving of respect or to be thrown out the back door. Think on it.
lolwut
"It is fairly safe to guess neither are you, or any of us. Blame is not the issue at hand, action and commitment to our movement is! Sorry but this continuous playing of the blame game is quite unproductive, imo."
Uhm...that's pretty much what I was getting at. The OP said "shame on your parents", and all I did was point out that, while not perfect, they're the ones who got me started on the path I walk today.
"While I will assume nothing, I'm looking forward to that perfect world you in your wisdom will provide."
Excuse me, but when did I say or even imply anything even remotely resembling this? Also, it would appear that you've made quite a few (incorrect) assumptions as it is.
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Sorry if it sounded that way
I was not referencing you specifically, it was meant "in general." I really wasn't disagreeing with you. Even those who discount their parents, which you certainly did not, generally walk the path they do because of their influence. My main point, and again my apologies, was that blaming at this point is counter-productive. None walk without fault.
Ah, I see
Apology accepted, then. Allow me to extend mine as well.
I just figured by the tone and all...heh, and here I was just talking about how people react too quickly. *blush*
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If you go to a public place or shopping center,
or a Wal-Mart, you will be appalled at what you see out there.
I try to avoid these places, because I cannot take the psychological trauma that I get when I see what the general public actually is.
This is far worse than it ever has been before. Even in the days of illiteracy, it was much better than this. This is worse than illiteracy. What we have today amounts to an indoctrination of stupidity. They are worse off than if they had learned nothing.
It's a very shocking situation.
I've got an even more shocking reality:
sit in a state college class room for a day.
This is the up and coming generation of leaders. You think the elderly are attached to their entitlements? At least the elderly worked and paid into SS. These kids want it all, want it now, don't want to put any effort into getting it and will take you down (especially verbally) if you stand in their way.
The cherry on top is that their public school education has dumbed them down so badly that they can barely read, write, or do a simple math problem. They graduated because no child should be left behind.
Sad and scary.
“The law cannot make a wicked person virtuous…God’s grace alone can accomplish such a thing.” Ron Paul - The Revolution
up and comers? Don't make me laugh
Those kids aren't being taught to run anything. They don't and won't have the skills, even the IVY League is filled with this and it's almost what employers seem to prefer. Either that or every employer has the judgement of a 10 y/o. From what I noticed, the best looking out of our class was hired immediately. Actual performance didn't matter. That aside places like CBS were offering them jobs if they ponied up a cool $40k. Those dumb kids usually lose their jobs, because of their arrogance. That aside a few of the top of the class turn tricks to make ends meat now. And this was a private school ranking higher than the state schools. It would be scary if it were true though.
I met a German girl who
I met a German girl who studied in California for a year.
She said that the American students ask her to look through their papers. To correct them. To correct their English!
I thought that was shocking.
She didn't even study English, but Math.
And to add to that
the teachers are so defensive and down right mean that they refuse to recognize a decent student within the bunch and punish the good with the bad.
It's more like baby-sitting than college.
“The law cannot make a wicked person virtuous…God’s grace alone can accomplish such a thing.” Ron Paul - The Revolution
The shame is on the evil people, not their victims.
I raised my children to be good, honest, compassionate people. My daughter got herself put through law school. Now she is "an expert" and dumber than a box of rocks. She works for peanuts doing "Legal Aid" and her "big victories" are when she gets another old person to give their house to a bank for a "cash for keys" deal where the old people get a grand or two for their home. I am so ashamed of who she is and how she is that it tears me apart. She is the perfect tool for the NWO. Deaf, dumb and blind to anything evil because (clever atheist that she is) she knows there is no god so there cannot be evil either.
And you think she ought to be ashamed of me?
Thanks for posting. It really helps when I face up to the fact that when all my efforts fail, I will be handing the problems to blame-shifting ungrateful twits like you. Makes it easier to bear.
Whatever else I said a minute ago, the last word I want to get in is
LOVE!
I'm with you on that, fishy.
The indoctrination of the "education" system has trumped all my efforts as a parent to instill a work ethic, a moral lifestyle, and a debt averse mindset with my children. I am viewed as backward and "embarrassing" because they believe themselves to be "special" and entitled. Ungrateful doesn't even begin to cover this generation of egocentric, attention-junkies that now want to blame the very parents who gave them a good life. They've been conditioned to be perpetual children, spoiled brats who need constant praise and throw a fit if life isn't made easy for them....instantly.
Not only has this corrupt system stolen my retirement savings, my purchasing power, my personal liberties and a belief in my country, but it has also stolen my children. This is almost beyond what I can bear.
At that age
you're only as good as your parents.
"I was eeeuh.... nevereeeuh..
"I was eeeuh.... nevereeeuh.. taughtuh.. that eeuh..know.kno..knowledge."
That's bad.. But they picked out the worst of the bunch, says here:
http://www.kirotv.com/news/news/olympia-students-say-viral-v...
Still that quote sticks out to me. That's the problem, the youth is so used to having everything brought to them that they don't go out to get it. You don't get knowledge taught to you, you find knowledge. Taught knowledge doesn't even exist.
You don't go to school to learn knowledge either. You forget most of it within a few years anyway. You learn because it expands you brain and gives you the capabilities needed to go out and find knowledge or skills. You train it.
That's the real problem, and that is why changing the curriculum or organisation all these times hasn't fixed it. In the west, we stopped training our brains. We think about what we like to think about, and just feed ourselves with what caters to that, and that alone. There's no critical thinking involved anymore. And it's everywhere, not just schools.. the kids are just victims. Where are they supposed to find a good example? Just look at this presidential race.
Obama is a socialist!! Ron Paul is dangerous!! Mitt is a flip-flopper!!
Really? How juvenile does it get...?
And that (campaign please take note) is the reason why the youth flocks to Ron Paul. They DON'T want to be like this. They can't quite understand what's at play. They don't understand the monetary issue. It's not because liberty is a 'young idea', it's because it's an old idea. If you don't have knowledge, the world is confusing and scary place. Ron Paul is the only one that offers an explanation. That's it, he comforts them. SAFETY is everything to them. That is why he's such a revelation to them, they didn't knew it existed.
That is why they flock to social media, they can't be alone by themselves anymore! That is why they have a short attention span, they get consfused because nobody explains anything anymore! People talk of media bias against Ron Paul, I think there's a much more dangerous bias that has been going on for years: against intelligence, reason and critical thinking.
People are always blaming the kids for the ills of society at large, or politics, or media, rockmusic, rapmusic, cartoons, comicbooks, videogames. I have learned more about society from rap and videogames than from watching corporate news, that's for sure.
Society gets the kids and the leaders it deserves.
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Government Schools teach, and
Government Schools teach, and get the results they want.. Just another reminder why Ron Pauls stance of ending the dept of edcuation is so on point!!
We Have Failed
We have allowed federal indoctrination of our children. It's not to teach them how to think, but what to think: We're ruining the earth, we're heating it up by emiting/breathing all this carbon..meanwhile plastic trash and pollution everywhere by corporations. What happened to the good book: be fruitful and multiply.
It does seem to me that many
It does seem to me that many kids don't want to know the answers. They revel in their own ignorance.
Lol why?
Actually this is spot on. The question is why, a lot has to do with early peer pressure. Kids feel pressured by other kids not to act smart. The other is just how terrible the schools have gotten with complete inflexibility in teaching material and too many other stimuli available to students.
But wait, what I said is more complicated than I make it sound. First peer pressure, this strips children of various individual traits including personal desires to research individual interests. If these traits are not nurtured prior to public schooling they will be lost permanently. Then the inflexibility of material, this is a triple threat. First children are "sorted" into various categories of schools following original indoctrination periods based on both behavior and academics. Then the material inflexibility is used to only keep certain groups competing with each other, it also destroys funding (as a regular suspendee I can tell you the majority of the regular attendees were also straight A students or still gifted). Then Students are left at the end with 3 abysmal choices that they have to orient themselves toward (further education, military or poverty job). Then the over-availability of stimuli (although as a multi-tasker I loved this), basically outside of the regime education the goal is to produce dropouts, having TMI doesn't help in most cases and makes a person oriented towards hobbies.
I think I'm gonna give my kids a choice at 5 start a business or go to school.
TMI?
TMI?
too much info
was trying to make a small joke about kids having access to porn on things like redtube, sounded funnier in my head.
I attended
Cherry Creek public schools in the 90's to mid 00's. It was considered one of the better school districts, if our expulsion rate is included in drop out rate it is about 25%. It was pretty bad there, outside of the honors classes no one listened, no one tried.
Then I went to the University of Denver, a highly ranked school with a near 15% drop out rate (mostly due to it being expensive). It was far WORSE than this.