The demographics of this election show that...

[LAS14]

... we MUST put more resources into education. I've felt this all along, but more and more polls are screaming it at us.

[edhopper]

1. True

white males just don't learn anything.

[Zing Zing Zingbah]

2. Yes

Posted this on another thread recently. White people without a college education are most likely to support Trump. I don't know what is is about white people that they are more likely to vote Republican overall (being a white woman I just don't get it), but it is about 50/50 Clinton/Trump among educated whites. Education does make a difference in how people vote.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/05/31/donald-trump-is-splitting-the-white-vote-in-ways-weve-never-seen-before/

[GWC58]

6. Im

not college educated, white, 58 y/o. I guess that means I'm an exception. Pretty sure I'm not the only one of "my kind" that horrified by this dictator in waiting.

[GreenEyedLefty]

3. Especially critical thinking skills!

[CrispyQ]

4. Totally agree!

I couldn't believe it when a few years ago someone on this site said that a lot of schools don't teach civics anymore. What impacts your daily life more than government?

A little off topic, but I read a study several years ago about the difference in the ability to tell how much time has passed without looking at a clock, based on if the person could read a traditional face clock vs. people who can only read a digital clock. People who can read a face clock are much better at telling when 5 minutes has passed, 15 minutes, half an hour & an hour. The longer the time span was, the less accurate the digital clock readers were.

[Quantess]

5. How does any student of average intellegence

make it through grade school without being able to read a clock?

[GWC58]

7. My so

is in 5th grade. His teacher this year, although she doesn't have to, is teaching cursive. When I was in school that subject was taught in 2nd grade.