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Atrocities said:
Oh I agree completely. The break down of the moral and ethical standard by prominently promoting anti-family values, gay sex, and free drug use has completely deteriorated the quality of our schools even more so than the lowering of educational standards so the stupid lazy kids can pass barely being able to read "see spot run" and add 2+2.
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Hold on, are you saying what I think you're saying? That it's the godless, perverted, promiscuous gays who are behind the moral deterioration? Or did you just get your sentence structure completely mixed up? Because if it was not a mistake, you had better have an asbestos suit handy.
Promoting tolerance, giving kids an actual useful sex education (they will have sex anyway, so it is better if they know about contraception and condoms and use them instead of having unprotected sex that results in teen pregancy and helps spread STDs) and teaching them that gays are people just like everyone else sure as hell are not things that result in moral decline unless one's viewpoint is that of an uptight idiot with a rod up his arse. The thing is that if it does not result in objectively verifiable harm, then I do not see any grounds to call something bad even if it is not something one personally likes. If anything, kids who are taught tolerance and kindness and to treat others as normal even if they are not 100% conforming to the expectations of the majority will generally grow up to be far more ethical people than some of those so screeching about the destruction of moral values and social decay.
Drug use, that's a different thing entirely, and drugs generally have a lot of negative consequences, whether legal (e.g. alcohol and tobacco) or illegal (marijuana, heroin etc), so I'll leave that out. But from what I've seen, promoting free drug use is not something that is very widespread in the US.
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Atrocities said:Thanks to the lax system we now have, more and more stupid kids are being coddled and allowed to pass onto the next grade when they shouldn't even be in the grade they are currently in.
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That's a completely different issue. The problem there is that the bull**** educational theories that have gained prominence in the past 20 years all adamantly insist that nobody should ever reprimand kids for anything or fail them for anything because it'll damage their precious self-esteem. That's what's mainly responsible for the decline of education, and it's such a heap of manure that it makes the task of cleaning the stables of Augeias that was set to Heracles look like a pile of gnat droppings in comparison. But it's not the only reason. The whole US education system was designed the better part of 100 years ago to supply a substantially different workforce makeup with labor and it hasn't been changed much since. The system is broken on every level and a lot of societal factors go into it as well. The much touted No Child Left Behind law that Bush signed has only made things worse and has no redeeming qualities at all.