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<blockquote data-quote="malraux" data-source="post: 4869820" data-attributes="member: 24352"><p>This is somewhat unrelated to everything else, but is a pet peeve of mine. Kids today are smarter than they were a few decades ago, and kids a few decades ago were smarter than their elders. The Flynn effect is pretty clear and unmistakable. While it might appear that kids are getting dumber, in many cases what is happening is that the educational system is bringing in more and more of the kids who wouldn't have had as much education in times past.</p><p></p><p>On the specifics. Lets see, armed guards, drug hounds and metal detectors were in place in the 90s. Moreover, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:101st_Airborne_at_Little_Rock_Central_High.jpg" target="_blank">here</a> are some military units in a school, not just some rent a cops.</p><p></p><p>Places where teachers fear the students: <a href="http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0777958.html" target="_blank">Time Line of Worldwide School Shootings — Infoplease.com</a> Registering "fear" of students is pretty hard. Certainly big events like school shootings are not limited to the US. And really the big difference is that this sort of violence moved into the "good" schools, not that it hasn't always been around. Heck, right now it looks like juvenile violence crime is at a relative low point: <a href="http://ojjdp.ncjrs.org/ojstatbb/crime/JAR_Display.asp?ID=qa05201" target="_blank">Trends</a></p><p></p><p>Literacy rates: Functional illiteracy for the youngest cadre seems like you don't know what you are talking about. Functional illiteracy is an adult issue, not a young child issue.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="malraux, post: 4869820, member: 24352"] This is somewhat unrelated to everything else, but is a pet peeve of mine. Kids today are smarter than they were a few decades ago, and kids a few decades ago were smarter than their elders. The Flynn effect is pretty clear and unmistakable. While it might appear that kids are getting dumber, in many cases what is happening is that the educational system is bringing in more and more of the kids who wouldn't have had as much education in times past. On the specifics. Lets see, armed guards, drug hounds and metal detectors were in place in the 90s. Moreover, [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:101st_Airborne_at_Little_Rock_Central_High.jpg"]here[/URL] are some military units in a school, not just some rent a cops. Places where teachers fear the students: [url=http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0777958.html]Time Line of Worldwide School Shootings — Infoplease.com[/url] Registering "fear" of students is pretty hard. Certainly big events like school shootings are not limited to the US. And really the big difference is that this sort of violence moved into the "good" schools, not that it hasn't always been around. Heck, right now it looks like juvenile violence crime is at a relative low point: [url=http://ojjdp.ncjrs.org/ojstatbb/crime/JAR_Display.asp?ID=qa05201]Trends[/url] Literacy rates: Functional illiteracy for the youngest cadre seems like you don't know what you are talking about. Functional illiteracy is an adult issue, not a young child issue. [/QUOTE]
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