Topic: Where you live
started by: Self-Banished
Posted by Self-Banished on Jan. 26 2016,8:12 am
I found this interesting< http://www.roadsnacks.net/dumbest-cities-in-minnesota/ >
Posted by mrugly on Jan. 26 2016,4:23 pm
Very interesting indeed! 
Posted by Botto 82 on Jan. 27 2016,8:40 am
This had me wondering. "How did this happen?" the voices in my head said.Once upon a time, the educational constructs we had in place for our kids held their interests, well into their late teens. I remember seeming blockheads, sticking with the curriculum because football, or small engines, or FFA or somesuch. Everybody was invested in some part of their school day, and maybe their imaginations were sparked, as a result.
Today? Cookie-cutter corporate models define the educational model, and these "knowledge factories" stamp out perfect consumers in a digital age of zombies, transfixed by their "mobile devices." If it's not that, it's what passes for music, nowadays. Why ponder Led Zepplin's question, "If the sun refuse to shine?" when you can listen to Nicki Manaj shake her booty to the challenging lyrics of "You a stupid hoe"?
I know it's always been socially safer to be a moron in a pack of other morons, as opposed to being a stand-out smart kid, but c'mon, already...
Posted by Glad I Left on Jan. 27 2016,8:56 am
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cookie-cutter corporate models define the educational model, and these "knowledge factories" stamp out perfect consumers in a digital age of zombies, transfixed by their "mobile devices." If it's not that, it's what passes for music, nowadays. Why ponder Led Zepplin's question, "If the sun refuse to shine?" when you can listen to Nicki Manaj shake her booty to the challenging lyrics of "You a stupid hoe"?
I know it's always been socially safer to be a moron in a pack of other morons, as opposed to being a stand-out smart kid, but c'mon, already...
I know it's always been socially safer to be a moron in a pack of other morons, as opposed to being a stand-out smart kid, but c'mon, already...
That might be the most profound thing I've read so far this morning.. I shall post to my FB and garner responses as it may just be the fact I have not had any coffee yet...
Posted by Self-Banished on Jan. 27 2016,8:58 am
^^ my best friend in high school was a stand out smart kid, he fit in quite well and still does very well to this day. Of course, we didn't go to AL. I think some of the problems we have in schools today is a lack of respect and disipline. Act the fool? You had a meeting with the "Board of Education"
Posted by Botto 82 on Jan. 27 2016,10:21 am
I saw LeRoy Maas slam a seventh-grader up against a cinderblock wall for mouthing off. The kid still turned out to be one of the dregs of society. So it goes...
Posted by Liberal on Jan. 27 2016,11:40 am
I just want to point out it's the ESL students dragging us down, and our test scores are showing improvement.
Posted by Self-Banished on Jan. 27 2016,11:46 am
Albert lea's had Spanish speaking student for decades.
Posted by grassman on Jan. 27 2016,1:29 pm
I think most of it is on the parents. Too busy to do right by their own kids. Kids today have too much power and too little respect for elders.