My 10 o’clock appointment was cancelled today—so I was left twiddling my thumbs—the big project of the moment was at home, I was at the office, and so I started surfing—off to a wiki to get educated.
I learned the following:
Public school students in America have these characteristics:
- 30% fail to graduate from high school
- Nearly 70% leave high school unqualified to go on to four-year college.
- 77% have used illicit drugs. Fatal overdoses are common but underreported; public schools are required to present drug “education” to kids
- More than 60% of public school teenagers (in one regional study) watch more than 3 hours of television a day, compared with a national average of 35%
- One in three teen girls in the United States is estimated to get pregnant at least once before age 20. XXXAbout 10% of the girls become pregnant in a typical school; about half have abortions, and about half give birth; public schools “educate” kids about sex
- “About 160,000 students miss school daily because they fear being bullied,” and in Hawaii students viciously fight each other and post videos of it on Youtube.com.
- 20% go on dangerous “binge drinking,” and 50% drink illegally
- 10-20% become addicted to cigarettes
- 35% are overweight
- Nearly 10% have mental health problems
- More than 10% of public high schools have a pro-homosexual student club
The source? Conservapedia on Public Schools.
Oh yes, and “Homosexual indoctrination is common as early as elementary school in more liberal states.”
I might believe one or two of those statistics (IE the overweight kids), but I think I would trust Wikipedia more… at least there EVERYONE is able to edit things, not just the conservatives.
Is there a liberal equivalent to conservapedia?
Recently on Jay Leno, Reese Witherspoon brought signs back from Germany: Ausfarht which she said meant exit and einfarht which is enter. They both found them to be hilarious.
Just remember: There are no gay people in Sorta’ Cosmopolitan. Or at least, that’s what one of my grad students told me. Obviously, I am *not* in one of those liberal states that indoctrinates our children.
Blah.
I’m with CQ: Is there a liberalpedia?
@Disenchanted: Do you live in Iran or Sorta’ Cosmo?
The person that told you this didn’t insist you wear a veil and call them President, did they?
I guess this explains the allure of home schooling, where the kiddies get to learn how awful those queers really are, the fairy tale of the big sky giant and 2 + 2 = 6 if you really it to.
Oh Joy! Rapture! your random header image is of the Trustle! The railroad bridge that spans Richland Creek here in my own native land. How beautiful!
So…50% of kids in public schools drink legally?
How do they manage that?
@CQ: I think the liberal equivalent, roughly speaking, is Wikipedia–where articles are edited for a NPOV–Wikipedia ain’t perfect, but it does strive for scientific accuracy where it matters.
@Ian: Home Schooling is the best! Imagine what I would teach my kids–if I had kids.
@cliff: Not sure, but the teen pregnancy numbers are equally perplexing, if you want to give them a once over.