Are you ever SHOCKED by how butt-ignorant *SOME* young people are?

[Waiting For Everyman]

85. I agree with you, both of those examples are shocking.

I will say this... back in the early '90s I took both of my kids out of high school in the first year because it was so violent. With no diploma, both of them place-tested into college with nothing but a good reading list which they mostly covered (themselves, with no tutor etc., occasionally a little discussion from me if they wanted it). So, kids today who don't want to remain ignorant can do something about it, all on their own. Add to that now, the internet.

But if kids are as ignorant as those you cited and don't mind continuing to stay that way, then that is even more shocking.

This is what comes of making education subservient to resumes. Content doesn't matter anymore. It's nothing but a door-opener, which means nothing beyond that.