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In reply to the discussion: This is a hell of a paragraph: [View all]Escurumbele
(3,443 posts)Public schools not teaching the arts, sports, only High Schools provide limited arts and sports, many elementary and middle schools do not have sports and provide very little arts education.
Kids do not read books anymore, they should have a required book every month they are in school, that would at least guarantee they read nine books in a year. All that kids do today is look at their Smartphones and play games.
The ignorance of the USA citizens is by design, politicians know they can manipulate people easier when they are ignorant, that is why trump loves "his uneducated" and that is why they cheer when insulted that way.
How many times has anyone heard "ignorance is bliss"? Or "who needs to learn another language"? It has been a concerted effort to dumb down the USA population, and ignorance is winning.