Comments | maplecomm: American kids, dumber than dirt

smacksaw in maplecomm

American kids, dumber than dirt

Jan 10, 2008 13:33

A must-read

Warning: The next generation might just be the biggest pile of idiots in U.S. history

read more | digg storyMan this is so relevant...think of the people who say "looking for game buddies/guildies who 'dun talk lyk diz and dun use a period" etc. All of the people who are simply logic-impaired in understanding why their hacking is wrong ( Read more... )

off topic but awesome

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markslj January 10 2008, 21:38:37 UTC

Oh, as an education major, I absolutely know this.

gildedleaf January 10 2008, 21:59:15 UTC

Thank you for that, it's an interesting article.
It's scary to think that so many people can pass through school not knowing basic things like sentence structure and an understanding of basic vocab. This definitely applies to the way some people play maple story D:

I don't even want to think about the maturing of these poor kids.

mizunosakura January 11 2008, 08:49:14 UTC

Well, my vocabulary is really bad >> But I got straight A's in everything else ^^; (To be honest, I'm not sure why my vocabulary is so horrible...)

But yes, too many stupid people in the world :( Hopefully the ones that are still smart will save the day.

smooth_katt January 10 2008, 22:06:16 UTC

It's so sad that all I can even do at this moment is shake my head and plan my escape from America.

iiori January 10 2008, 22:10:53 UTC

My thoughts/feelings exactly. +__+

iruka11 January 10 2008, 22:20:28 UTC

I'm glad I'm not there.
The ironic thing is, some people still think America as their dream land and now you guys want to leave... XD

smooth_katt January 10 2008, 22:58:27 UTC

Like rats from a sinking ship, lol.

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iruka11 January 10 2008, 22:19:09 UTC

Interesting read...

I just read about the education in Japan last week and they were looking at the Indian education system as a model. This is surprising since Japan has been known to have an excellent education system. They always want to improve.
Looks like the article says that Americans are doing the opposite, they don't really care that much on improving the system...

What do they do with the rulers if they don't know how to use it? haha! play with it like swords? XD

bribery January 11 2008, 03:02:42 UTC

Ahh, I read that one too (NY Times, right?) and was equally surprised.

smacksaw January 12 2008, 11:13:46 UTC

Politics don't serve the USA, the USA serves politicians ( ... )

presents January 10 2008, 22:41:57 UTC

I agree with the general idea of the article, but as to the tone... what a pompous ass.

and if you think the hordes of easily terrified, mindless fundamentalist evangelical Christian lemmings have been bad for the soul of this country, just wait.

That was below the belt. :/

smacksaw January 12 2008, 11:14:40 UTC

The Bible Belt? LOL...you can tell that's a San Fran-Freako writer. I ran into people like that constantly when I lived there.