Wednesday, February 4, 2009

Idiot Nation


In this Essay by Michael Moore we are given many examples from the other as to why our education is in shambles by using lots of sarcasm and a little bit of crude humor mixed with facts. He makes many points that I do agree on such as the fact the teachers do get paid to little and that the corporations are abusing the use of advertising to schools to the point of making it so that they are just interested in having all the students spend their money on their products and are not worried that the companies are taking away true learning with their bombardment of advertising. Also the fact that Libraries are going down all over the US is a big problem. K so first, I had many great teachers in my school who did their best to try and teach me even though they may have thought that they had a crappy job because of the amount of money paid to them was minuscule, so the fact that all these rules about education come up with by politicians and state governments are causing education to dwindle is concerning to me.
Points I don't agree with Mr. Moore on are the points he makes in telling the students to be disruptive every chance they get. Even if it is a law that kids can request a school day off for the state fair doesn't mean that you should just because you can and want to. That right there is being idiotic, by ditching knowledge just to go and play. Also telling the kids to act out is ridiculous. Rules are there for a purpose and not just so a teacher or principal can be a "dictator" over his army of 1000 kids. Schools should be a place of learning and should be a safe place where offensive things should be left out side the school and not welcomed in. I don't want my kids to walk into a school and have my kid be embarrassed by having a teacher hand out a condom and tell them it is ok to go and have sex. Heck if they do that why don't they just let guys and girls in High school share a locker room so that they can practice. This to me is offensive and such sacred things that should be kept private should stay that way and not flaunted around vulgarly in all the schools so the kids will know about it. Those things should be taught in a better way and by someone more trusted. Wearing disrespectful clothing should also be monitored as the learning environment is a place of learning and upliftment and not to offend and destroy. Media itself does a good enough job and turning all the teens minds into vulgar chatterboxes and corrupt minds.

3 comments:

  1. Mark,
    I for one think that Libraries that I have seen are actually more sophisticated than they were in Nixon's time or before. They are probably open longer hours and now offer the use of computers, internet, check out of movies, music and even books you can listen to. I also think that corporate sponsors are trying to education young consumers about their products.
    I totally agree with you that telling kids to "act out" will never improve education.

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  2. Michaels continuos ragging of the American education system is his lack of being able to conform or even lead by example. As Gov. Palin put it in her first speech she made announcing her running as Vice President with Gov. McCain in reference to President Obama, "he is intoxicated by the sound of his own voice".

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  3. haha that is a very funny picture! I was laughing really hard when I saw this! It is a great picture!

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