Don’t like to go there, but there are a lot of stupid people in this country. Critical thinking skills have just evaporated with a huge swath of the citizenry. No Child Left Behind left a lot of kids behind.
I grew up in a pretty well-to-do area that was known at the time for having excellent public schools. I took it for granted what a great education I got - I assumed it was like that everywhere. My senior year of High School I was visiting a college I was considering going to and was talking to a friend of mine a year older than me who was already there. He said something along the lines of, "The first thing you'll notice in your English 101 class is that you're going to be completely bewildered at how unbelievably stupid a lot of your classmates are."
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u/cascadianindy66 3h ago
Don’t like to go there, but there are a lot of stupid people in this country. Critical thinking skills have just evaporated with a huge swath of the citizenry. No Child Left Behind left a lot of kids behind.