WTF Happened to America?

[bshole]

Makes me sick to my stomach.

 

[Sonikku]

You think that's bad? See Texas trying make public school books for the entire country romanticizing Reagan and all kinds of shit.

 

[waggy]

http://www.snopes.com/photos/signs/sciencetest.asp

yes it's true..

BUT it's from Blue Ridge Christian Academy. a faith based school. So really no surprise.

BTW the school closed due to lack of funding..

 

[Darwin333]

Holy crap..... I'm speechless, poor kids....

 

[Darwin333]

BTW the school closed due to lack of funding..

Not even the god that they believe in so very much could save them from teaching complete and total bullshit. Kind of ironic isn't it?

 

[preCRT]

Not even the god that they believe in so very much could save them from teaching complete and total bullshit. Kind of ironic isn't it?

Actually, if you believe, he did.

Karma can be a bitch. lol

 

[trenchfoot]

I sort'a feel sorry for those kids who are indoctrinated that way because they will be teased as idiots if they are going to public schools after their faith based school closed down, especially in the middle and high school grades where most kids are brutally obnoxious yet emotionally fragile.

 

[Fanatical Meat]

I sort'a feel sorry for those kids who are indoctrinated that way because they will be teased as idiots if they are going to public schools after their faith based school closed down, especially in the middle and high school grades where most kids are brutally obnoxious yet emotionally fragile.

They're not going to public school if this place was anything but free.
I'm pissed the state allowed this as "school".....assuming that is a real unedited test which I suspect may not be what it appears.

 

[flexy]

Fake stuff on the internetz happened.

 

[Meghan54]

Fanatical Meat and flexy.....follow and read the link in post #3. It ain't fake.

 

[Fanatical Meat]

^^^Then I'm pissed the State allowed it

*link formats funny on my mobile*

 

[OutHouse]

interesting photo.

 

[Matthiasa]

Except for you know the fact that carbon dating isn't actually used for periods of time anywhere near a few orders of magnitude of that age.

 

[Moonbeam]

Except for you know the fact that carbon dating isn't actually used for periods of time anywhere near a few orders of magnitude of that age.

Irrelevant. Door nobs aren't made of carbon.

 

[werepossum]

Except for you know the fact that carbon dating isn't actually used for periods of time anywhere near a few orders of magnitude of that age.

One could date the doorknobs if they were crafted of wood though, assuming that nobody was making doorknobs more than 50,000 years ago (or whatever is the current limit for radiocarbon dating) and that they are older than the dilution period. And assuming that those are in fact doorknobs.

 

[Meghan54]

interesting photo.

Psssst......they aren't door knobs.

 

[zinfamous]

interesting photo.

well shit. My whole world is undone.

thank you, internet gif.

 

[Matthiasa]

Irrelevant. Door nobs aren't made of carbon.

Things that can't be directly dated tend to get assigned dates of what was around them that could be.

 

[trenchfoot]

interesting photo.

My untrained eye tells me that that black stuff looks a lot like compacted riverbed sediment of the brackish water type and the lighter colored stuff looks like marine limestone that got exposed via erosion that occurred not too far back in time.

 

[Darwin333]

My untrained eye tells me that that black stuff looks a lot like compacted riverbed sediment of the brackish water type and the lighter colored stuff looks like marine limestone that got exposed via erosion that occurred not too far back in time.

But the Earth is only 6ish thousand years old so no matter what it can't be true!

 

[1prophet]

I sort'a feel sorry for those kids who are indoctrinated that way because they will be teased as idiots if they are going to public schools after their faith based school closed down, especially in the middle and high school grades where most kids are brutally obnoxious yet emotionally fragile.

I don't think American public school students are in any position to tease anyone, idiocracy is coming and religion is not what is leading it.

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-...school-students-slide-in-math-reading-science

The Program for International Student Assessment, or PISA, collects test results from 65 countries for its rankings, which come out every three years. The latest results, from 2012, show that U.S. students ranked below average in math among the world's most-developed countries. They were close to average in science and reading.


"In mathematics, 29 nations and other jurisdictions outperformed the United States by a statistically significant margin, up from 23 three years ago," reports Education Week. "In science, 22 education systems scored above the U.S. average, up from 18 in 2009."


In reading, 19 other locales scored higher than U.S. students — a jump from nine in 2009, when the last assessment was performed.
The top overall scores came from Shanghai, Singapore, Hong Kong, Taiwan, South Korea, Macao and Japan, followed by Lichtenstein, Switzerland, the Netherlands and Estonia.


The math scores of students in Shanghai showed that they are "the equivalent of over two years of formal schooling ahead of those observed in Massachusetts, itself a strong-performing U.S. state," according to the study.

 

[flexy]

idiocracy is coming and religion is not what is leading it.

I think idiocracy is coming to all areas of society, it's just most prominent looking at politics.

Entertainment? Reality TV? Media in general? Movies, Film
Education
Religion
Literature (Examples: 50 Shades of Gray --> BESTSELLER, Hunger Games --> Also imho an extremely bad book)
Look at "average" people "on the street" and ask them questions about history etc.
Look at supporters of a certain political party and how they swallow the biggest, absurd nonsense that's told to them

Even your test examples above from the link (which I quickly looked at) are proof for idiocracy coming. I don't know what demographics this is targeting, but the questions seem like a joke to me. "Go figure out the shortest way for Emma to go to Silvertown" etc.. (something a 8 year old can do in 20 seconds) this is NOT how you'll get to a smart society with a a decent number of capable engineers etc.

Heck when I went to school (Europe, mind you) we didn't have multiple-choice tests - this always struck me as bizarre how easy your tests seem.

I am aware that times are changing....but we ARE getting...more idiotic at an incredible pace. If there's any doubt, follow this election cycle.

 

[mikeymikec]

You think that's bad? See Texas trying make public school books for the entire country romanticizing Reagan and all kinds of shit.

IMO the OP's example is far, far worse!

PS - the second page of that quiz (visible on the snopes link waggy posted) is possibly worse than the first.

I think idiocracy is coming to all areas of society, it's just most prominent looking at politics.
...
Literature (Examples: 50 Shades of Gray --> BESTSELLER, Hunger Games --> Also imho an extremely bad book)

I don't think a penchant for less-than-stellar fiction is an indicator of idiocracy; everyone likes a bit of mindless enjoyment. Furthermore, the Hunger Games series are classed as teen fiction.

 

[sandorski]

Makes me sick to my stomach.

IKR. Next thing you know they'll be teaching kids that Climate Change is actually good for us!

 

[Mai72]

What is this nonsense!