This is what happens when you dumb down our schools

[DainBramaged]

[patrice]

1. Nobody double checks anything anymore; IT DOESN'T MATTER. nt

[Lars39]

2. probably made in prison....but recipient should have caught it.

[Fumesucker]

7. The recipient may well have spelled it rong on the application..

no wut ah meen?

[Lars39]

11. lol...or the clerk.

[vard28]

3. The students always ask me

"Does spelling count?" Well, DUH! If I'm going to teach it, you're going to learn it the correct way. I want to scream when I hear other teachers tell their students that spelling doesn't count. It's only history class, no need to learn how to spell the states correctly, right? :wtf:

Cripes, edited for spelling! LOL!

[dkf]

4. Can't blame Obama and Arne for it then.

Maybe our educational system has always been pretty mediocre, but better than none at all.

[DainBramaged]

6. Who said I was?

What kind of a statement was that? The Republicans are doing everything they can to dumb down the system, and if you possibly read how they are trying to eliminate reading initiative in the budget, maybe you'd understand, but no, you decided to take a shot instead....

[dkf]

10. Seems to me like most of the animosity of teachers is aimed at Obama nowadays.

There was a post earlier about how the NEA should withhold their endorsement of Obama. I didn't notice education as much of a topic here til Obama and Arne came along.

[DainBramaged]

14. You didn't answer the question, therefore you attacked me...

And trying to say I dislike teachers is even more disgusting..you really need to chill

[DemocracyInaction]

5. It isn't the fault of the schools

..it's that Amureka is #1 in the worst parents on earth. They shouldn't raise cats or dogs, much less, kids! Teachers can't shine________.

[whathehell]

17. Maybe the "Amureka" you live in

If, in fact, you do live here.:eyes:

Stupid, broad brush statement

[Hannah Bell]

8. unrec for school-bashing.

[DainBramaged]

9. You know what I meant.......I am surprised

Can't win around here. Simply sucks.


Maybe I should have said typical Toyota owner......


Time to go out and get away form the madness.

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[DainBramaged]

26. Sad you take it that way, very sad

sorry you're having a bad day......

[Hannah Bell]

29. i'm not "taking" it that way, it *is* that way. & i'm not having a bad day, either.

[DainBramaged]

30. So you are accusing me of being something I am not?

That is sadder.

[Hannah Bell]

31. i'm not accusing you of anything but using a neolib meme. i make no speculation

about your motives for doing so.

as i said when you pm-d me, people use neolib memes unthinkingly all the time, thereby helping to catapult the neolib propaganda.

"dumbed down schools" = a neolib meme. it's one of those propaganda memes we're blanketed with so long that it becomes truistic.

but it ain't true.

[Joe Fields]

20. yes, of course our schools are so perfect and ALL teachers are saints...

:spray:

[Hannah Bell]

24. no one said that either. not that the facts have ever kept *you* from posting crap.

[WatsonT]

23. Kind of reminds me of the people who take any criticism of the US as being anti-american

"I think we should fix ..." = "I absolutely hate ..."

I guess you're right though. Our schools are perfect and we have no reason to make any changes anywhere.

Ranking near the bottom of first world countries in education is a desirable thing.

[Hannah Bell]

25. generalizations about "dumbed-down schools" aren't criticism, they're neolib memes

promulgated for the purpose of ending public ed.

the us is not "near the bottom of first world countries in education".

despite the constant flogging of studies which purportedly say so.

[DainBramaged]

27. So now I'm a neolib?

Jesus grow up and stop attacking your friends...

[Hannah Bell]

33. no, as i've told you 3 times. as for "attacking your friends," posts about "dumbed down schools"

are an attack on educators just as much as posts about "autoworkers whose high pay is destroying the us auto industry".

and "welfare queens," "bleeding heart liberals," & the rest of the pantheon of cardboard neolib talking points.

[DainBramaged]

34. (sigh) Believe what you wish......time to enjoy the evening without an English lesson

[Hannah Bell]

38. (sigh) believe what *you* wish, dain. i made no personal comments about *you* whatsoever.

or your beliefs or motivations.

you're the one who seems to need an english lesson. specifically, in distinguishing the actual content of a statement v. your own inferences.

[WatsonT]

28. Sure thing, our schools are top notch

no, even better, they're perfect in every way.

Anyone who dares suggest they could be tweaked in any way is a traitor who hates America.

[Hannah Bell]

32. hyperbole & bullshit.

[WatsonT]

35. I agree. Labeling any negative comment about schools as "school bashing" IS hyperbole and BS

[Hannah Bell]

40. the op is not "any negative comment about schools". It's a post which ascribes someone's

spelling mistake to "dumbed down schools".

i can find stuff just like it at free republic or any other propaganda bastion.

[WatsonT]

41. Likewise FR or any blog of your choosing also mentioned the tsunami

I suppose that means any discussion of that tragedy ist verboten.

[verges]

12. It's possible, even likely,

that the correct spelling just wasn't available because it was on another plate.

[MrScorpio]

18. That's my thinking as well nt

[stuntcat]

39. yah, my first thought.

still kinda funny :p

(edit for whatever reason..)

[SheilaT]

13. Spelling does not seem to be taught any more in

schools, so far as I can tell. The principal of my kids' grade school actually defended the lack of systematic spelling because, one, she herself was a poor speller, and two, so many English words have spellings that violate the rules.

The first reason is an appalling excuse, and as for the second, about 85% of all English words do follow rules, and it's a really good idea to teach those rules, to teach spelling systematically. Yeah, we do have a LOT of odd rules, and we do have a lot of exceptions, but if you teach the rules you have a basis to start with.

[liberal N proud]

15. Advertising your intelligence

wow

[Duer 157099]

16. I think it's a pun of some sort

Seriously doubt that it's a misspelling, intentional or not.

Se qui oa?

[Stevenmarc]

19. Anyone stupid enough to pay extra for a plate with redundant information probably spelled it wrong

when they ordered it.

I mean really, do you think people can't look 18" to the left to see what you're driving.

[lame54]

36. 2 out of 3 ain't bad

[Duppers]

37. another explanation: >> dyslexia

I haz it.