“Illiterate. In this day and age, really?”
The dumbing down of American kids has been equal opportunity for decades.
It is often done under the guise of new math, new English or new whatever.
A younger relative in his 40’s got hit by the new math in mid school and high school. He got bored with hs, dropped out and took his GEDs and finished in months. He got a job as a pizza delivery guy was getting short changed by the customers because he couldn’t do basic math. His dad gave him a pocket calculator and the short changing stopped in a week. After a couple of months he didn’t need the calculator and could reverse an attempted short changing. His past and present jobs require math all day, and he is excellent.
Flash forward a few decades and this young man’s nephew was labeled a math idiot/dummy. It turned out that by his 4th grade, he had 3 new maths. One of his so called new math teacher was a teacher for his older sister. His older sister told all of us how often in the morning,that teacher would be in her class room sobbing because she had to present another new math lesson. His sister would explain to the teacher how to present the stuff. When asked how she could do it, the young lady said she was solid in math, the old math, and figured out how to present the phony baloney new math. She recently got an award for being one of the top math students in that middle school.
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Within a couple of months of Kumon, he went from math dummy to acing math tests up to 2 grades higher than his level. He has been in the annual math Olympics since then.
No excuse for the lying ugly witch in this trial. However, she and other young Americans across our land are being dumbed down each day in school.
This “sir” stuff after every answer is annoying. If she were a Marine, I could understand saying “Yes sir”. It would be a respectful “Yes sir”.
Since the Prosecution probably told her to answer that way (she can talk loud when she wants to), this is being done to fan the flames that the Agitator-in-Chief desires.