why is the stupid goverment doing this to our kids?
827639
Most high schoolers aren't getting elementary school arithmetic. You'll see that when you get to high school... It is a great thing that kids in grade school are having the standards raised. The only people who have a strong opposition to it at all are the kids like yourself who can't or don't understand why educational values are making a comeback after all this time, and you guys end up with harder work than you're used to. When you grow up, you'll understand why they did it to ya, and you'll be grateful.
134521
Let's start with Pr1ncess' answer:\n\n  "well cause their dumb" \n\nYou have to go no furher to figure out the the dumbing down of America starts with our youth.  This new breed of "me, me, me, and now, now, now" doesn't take the time to fully understand the long term benefits of hard work and a good education.  \n\nEverything they do revolves around shortcuts.  A microwave now takes too long to cook their food.  Spelling is limited to web jargon: LOL, coz (or cause as Princess stated).  Kids now post their homework in this site and have other people do it for them.  Yes, the education system is lacking, but this is more a sign of the times.  \n\nBy the way, Princess, it should be "Well, it's because they're dumb"  My pet peeve is people not knowing the difference between their, they're, and there.
572368
No! It is the parents job to monitor these sorts of things to make sure there children are or arent using them. Its the parents reponsibility.
114860
Yeah because then they wanna get some too!!  \nThat and those songs are stupid; what ever happened to using the English language?  Why are they just making up words now?  It let's kids think they should speak ignorantly too, just to be cool.
637171
To dumb down the populace and train them to be obedient slaves.\n\nOne of Marx's planks for a communist society was the government control of the schools. If you can indoctrinate the children you need not worry about the adults who will grow old and die eventually leaving you a fresh generation of easily manipulated drones to control.\n\nThis is why civics is no longer taught in school, this is why America as a society is getting dumber, this is why we now are teaching kids fuzzy math. \n\nI was fortunate, my parents sacrificed to see that my sibling and I got a private education. The public schools are nothing but government training/prison camps today. Police, lock downs, all transactions electronic or biometric (thumb-scan), no cash, drug dogs and no privacy, from cameras in the bathrooms to random searches, RFID embedded school ID's. This is the path our wonderful government wants to take society as a whole, the schools of today are a microcosm of the society we will be forced at gun point to live in tomorrow.
1099177
Because the f@#$ing gov. make more money on putting away a pot dealer in prison to get more money for the D.E.A  and narcotics task force to fight drugs and to fill the pockets with the money they get for this but yet don't stop half the drugs in this country their pockets getting full is more important then protecting our babies, i say take the baby raping sick bastards tie them in the middle of the street and let every body in that town get one rock and stone them to death even first timers and televise the whole thing maybe then these sick f@#ks will leave our children alone.Sorry about the cuss words but i cant stand child molesters or rapist.
231533
Yes, I think the government intrudes on our personal life way too much.  A parent could be arrested for spanking their child.  The Dept. of Human Services has become a threat to every parent.  Your kids can be taken away a lot easier these days.  My neighbor will lose her kids if she misses too many counseling appointments that were set up by DHS.  It's getting ridiculous.....
610469
the parents dont know what their doin thats why
1094194
Because they are government schools.  The aim is to mold the children into good servents of their government and the prevailing social order, not free thinking individualists with tremendous intellectual curiosity and mental acuity.
827261
Cause they're stupid.
530331
because our govenment is cruel and ferocious.  and also, our government likes to terrorize other countries.  but dont worry.  we americans are not like that, only our government, like many other governments.
254195
Yes is is totally disgusting and makes us look dumb too because we spent out money and blood to set that government up. They better do something to get that poor guy out of there!
441277
Because Americans are stupid
827761
It's so true! Go to the right place you can get free condoms. Or at least after number 5 you think they would get a brain cell. Then again like a family I know, they reproduce to work the government for more money. Of course they still have nothing to show for it cause they buy stupid stuff and they're lazy. So people they know with more then them are just trying to out do them. Which means it's time to pop another baby out for even more government money.
540314
because they're stupid
1136992
It's not JUST the job of the parents - it takes a whole community to raise a child.  We are all responsible for the children of our community and our country - our legal, US citizen children.  The other countries are responsible for their children.  Our children are our future.  Even those people who choose not to have children and then resent having to pay school taxes, for instance, should realize that their neighbours' children are the ones who will be someday paying the taxes to support the infrastructure around you in your old age.
447959
Because it's juvenile crap.\n\nMind you that's never stopped them in the past!