Why did Bush have a 90% approval rating after 9/11?
After one of the biggest intelligence and competency failures of our modern age, why did Bush have such a high approval rating? Was it because the "nation was united" and "behind our President"? Was it because Bush delivered stirring speeches? Was it that we were shocked that our great nation could be held emotionally hostage and violently assaulted by a rag-tag group with box cutters? No. It's because even college students are fucking stupid...I mean, maybe I shouldn't be surprised that a nation with huge federal deficits doesn't understand basic checkbook math...but not knowing how much to tip the guy at Olive Garden?...give me a fucking break. But I bet they know all the lyrics to that fucking milkshake song and they know all about the runaway bride and what's going on in the various myriad of "reality" shows...fuck americans. and fuck reaganites (sorry that's due to an annoying cspan radio show that told me how "right reagan was" and that the last quarter of a century was all about how reagan was "right")...cough, gag, sputter.
posted by J-Sin @ 6:27:00 PM
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The individual tests described in the article were mostly "life skills", those skills you acquire through experience, not education. Honestly, it's tough to grasp the meaning behind a credit card contract without having some exposure to similar financial documents and contracts. Besides, those things are written to be indeciferable...
Basically, what the article said is that our education system is certainly good (better literacy and educated skills) but we suck at teaching our kids life skills. I think, in large part, that's because our society does so much to shield and shelter. We don't know about how dangerous the world is outside our borders. We don't know about how to calculate gas in the car because there's a gas station on every corner. Basically, I'm not surprised and though I think it's sad, I think things could be worse if, say, we had to deal with all the shit that happens in other countries.
-normally not this serious
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