The most dangerous time since the Civil War

[Kinser79]

(01-09-2018, 04:06 PM)Galen Wrote:

(01-09-2018, 09:37 AM)Kinser79 Wrote:

(01-09-2018, 05:54 AM)Galen Wrote:

(01-08-2018, 02:17 PM)pbrower2a Wrote: Criticize the public schools all that you want, but you do not want a collection of minors lacking competent adults to keep them from doing stupid and destructive things.

That has happened before, you call them Generation X and the nominal adults were the Baby Boom Generation.  So far the Boomers in general still aren't competent.

I would argue that Boomers by and large aren't adults either.

No kidding.  Generation X had little choice but to grow up and get competent because otherwise it didn't end well.  I can tell you from personal experience that the government sponsored youth internment camps seemed to be lying to us most of the time.

The primary purpose of public education is to propagandize the younger generation (doesn't matter who that generation is).  This has been the purpose of public schools for well over a century now.  Interestingly my husband teaches history, economics and civics.  In all three courses he refuses to use the state provided textbooks.  Quite often they are wrong, inconsistant, or openly lying.

Last year my son showed me a passage in his psychology text book (a course my husband does not teach) that indicated that the Rorschach test (ink blot test) was still a legitimate tool for psychological evaluations.  The Rorshach test has not been used in standard psychological evaluations since the late 1960s as it is based on discredited theories and almost completely subjective as to the interpretation of the images used.

But then again, textbooks are picked by school boards (where they aren't selected by the state outright) based on political considerations and not as to their merits in regard to the information contained in them.

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Good to see that Mr. Horn a boomer took the time out to blame his parent's generation for his generation's failures. As for the rending of the New Deal social contract, I say that was inevitable. Socialism is great until you run out of other people's money as the Iron Lady said.