The stupidity of American students

Anyone who has been through the public school system in America, especially those recently, can attest to this. Not only that, but take a look at our culture, and it isn't a surprise to hear how mindnumbingly dumb American kids are when it comes to history.

Fewer than 25% of high school seniors know that we fought against China in the Korean War. 35% of 4th graders don't even know the purpose of the Declaration of Independence. Well under one in five 7th and 8th graders score "proficient" when it comes to history.

Not only history, but we lag far behind the rest of the world in math and science as well.

Why is this? Non productive rampant gang related activity play a major role in the inner city, urban test scores. Kanye West, Puff Daddy, and Eminem's psycho babble about raping women and "busting a cap in niggaz asses" are directly related to the dumbing down of the ghetto youth. And this ghetto subculture is quickly seeping into white American suburbia, which brings me to my next group of idiot students. The suburban middle class. While the urban kids are out robbing smoke shops, hanging at the tattoo parlors and being completely unproductive, the suburban, white, middle class kids are being just as unproductive. Sitting on Facebook and Youtube all day, playing Call of Duty Black Ops on their Xbox mommy and daddy bought for them, or watching MTV. Their lack of productivity is by no means illegal like their inner city counterparts, but it is non productive nonetheless. Then you have the white trash kids in Appalachia who can't afford nice TVs, video game systems, and sometimes internet. Sadly, they are simply born into poverty and stupidity. You can see this first hand in Donald Sutherland's PBS documentary "Country Boys". All I can say is, thank god for the Asian kids. They bump our scores up significantly! They are simply smarter, and know where their priorities are.

All joking aside, just look at our culture and it isn't hard to accept that we are just....plain....stupid people. We worship sports teams and players. Kids put sports achievement as a priority over academic achievement in America. In China and Korea, this isn't so. We spend hours upon hours of our days on social networking sites doing absolutely nothing but regurgitating useless information and further distancing ourselves from the real world. Just look at some of the idiotic babblings from American youths on Myspace, Facebook, Twitter and Youtube. Stupid teen movies like Transformers and Avatar with shallow messages and a whole lot of sexuality and special affects to keep them occupied and entertained. Cable channels like MTV and VH1 and stupid reality TV shows like this and this. Hip, cool, attractive politicians like this. Our culture is dominated and driven by entertainment and tells youths they can do what they want.

But the downward spiral of society is just the tip of the iceberg. Public education is also to blame. Specifically, the unproductive and fraudulent teachers unions. Public schools have failed their students. Instead of ranting for 30 minutes I'll let John Stossel explain it to you.