Comments on: American Secondary Schoolers

By: Nordicreb

Nordicreb — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 04:03:13 +0000

I am a transplanted Swede in my 40s and I have to say that the situation here in the United States, regarding education, is amazing.

I went through Swedish grammar school and high school in the 70s and 80s and, some years later, two years of college. My point: I’m not a genius with a Ph.D. In spite of that, I find that my knowledge in so many subjects is superior to that of my American “equals”!

My wife and I notice lack of knowledge in real life and on TV and when I state that “surely, everybody knows that, I learned that in junior high/high school” (as the case might be), she frequently tells me: “oh, that’s college-level, honey”…

The situation in Sweden, from what I gather from my contacts in “the old country”, is “going American,” much like everything else…

By: Dominic

Dominic — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 19:50:46 +0000

I completely agree with this. I myself am a college student and I have seen firsthand what goes on inside a public high school. From kindergarden through grade 8, I was in private school and in 8th grade I was learning Trigonometry and Physics. I didn’t even see those subjects again until I was in college. Going to High School for me was like going backwards 4 grades.

By: icr

icr — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 19:48:09 +0000

Re white children in multiracial schools:
http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/10/why_white_america_chose_obama.html
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“I learned early on that white people were bad. Since I’m white, I’ve always hated myself. I was told from grade school on how bad white people were; how we scalped Indians and whipped slaves. I always thought black people were better than me. It’s no wonder — I was told this in one form or another every day.

I was made fun of at school and threatened and pushed around, but I never spoke up. I thought it was my fault, my punishment for being white.
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By: wodinaz

wodinaz — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 15:59:36 +0000

Excellent piece. The situation is exactly the same in Sweden. Idiocy is rampant. Multiculturalism, Frankfurt school ideas, all sorts of “studies”, in particular gender, are everywhere and systematically encouraged from government and the so-called culture. Home schooling is, in practice, forbidden for white people.

One heroic American woman, Charlotte Thomson Iserbyt, former Senior Policy Advisor in the US Department of Education, has written about the deliberate dumbing down of America, and how this was actually ordered from the top. She worked as some kind of an “agent” to locate and subvert community leaders, difficult/conservative teachers etc. once.

Her book “The Deliberate Dumbing down of America” is freely available for download here: http://www.deliberatedumbingdown.com/