Child Sent Home School For Wonder Women Lunch Box

Over 20% of high school graduates think there's 52 states and this is what educators spend their time doing?

Sounds like a bogus statistic if I've ever heard one. Regardless, this whole lunch box thing is beyond stupid.

I'll see if I can find the article but it's a few years old. 1 in 5 graduates under 30 thought there were 52 states.

Most of the teachers and faculty in my years in school were just there for a paycheck and would have kids they didn't want to deal with thrown out of class. Though I did have a few good teachers who were there to teach.

EDIT: And before anyone asks. Yes, I got thrown out of class a lot.

Fifty-two is an awfully specific number for ~20% of said group to think is the number of states. So yeah, I'd like to see the study if you find it.

52 states is the most common wrong answer given, IIRC it was ~60% got it right. It wasn't a study, it was an article about the results of the NAEP.

~60% got it right? Look, I think the majority of people are stupid just like everyone else seems to, but that seems a bit far-fetched. My high school was no means a benchmark for brilliance, but I can't imagine even less than 95% getting that answer right. Something is off about their polling data if ~60% is what they got. I'll stick with the typical "I need a source" for this one.

Having lived in the South I find that to be completely believable.

Your text to link here...

For reference, some of the other things they don't know. I'll keep looking for the article in question, but the NAEP data is here.

Eh, more of the things on that list are more believable. I had to navigate my way out to find it all on a website that wasn't a conspiracy theorist site, though.

Heh, I didn't even notice it was Glenn Beck's site. People not knowing which ocean is on the East side of the US?

Glenn Beck's site? Where does it say that?

I spent maybe 1/3 of 1st grade "in the principal's office." actually the book closet. The principal had mo more idea of what to do with me than the teacher.

Smallish room, door in one wall, window in another, table, a few chairs, everything else solid bookshelves. I had been reading for 2 years. This was NOT a punishment.

The embedded video links back to his site.

Edit: Nevermind, different search tab.

So true. Hawaii isn't a state because it's not connected to the U.S.! Geography is not america's strong point. I recall at one point a girl from Kentucky that thought her own state's capital was Louisville.

Bet the hypocrites that run that school probably let the kids wear D.A.R.E. shirts, even though you know those cops had to beat someone once or twice in their day to land a cushy position like that.

Wonder Woman is cool and all, and while I think this is kind of silly, she did um...snap Maxwell Lord's neck. >_>;;

I mean, I'm pretty sure the lunch box didn't feature the panel image of WW doing that, but...ah what the hell. Okay what I am saying is I wish I had a Wonder Woman lunchbox showing her offing Maxwell Lord. -_-;;

states vs deck of cards... youd be surprised'

I find that really hard to believe. Easy, round numbers like 50 are difficult to forget. It's one of the many reasons why several candidates for state #51 are probably never going to succeed: we've hit a convenient, round number and people will make up any ridiculous excuse they possibly can not to change it, despite that we've only had 50 states for, what, about 60 years? Less? I'm too damned lazy to remember when Alaska and Hawaii were admitted.

Anyhow, I'll wager small money that it wasn't the educators who came up with this ridiculous rule. A bunch of helicopter parents with no grasp of what actually influences child behavior are almost certainly behind the policy. If I was a teacher in a school with that kind of stupid ***, my first response would be to enforce it in the most brain-damaged way possible, as in this article. It's the golem tactic: I'm going to rebel by doing exactly what you told me to do.

once again I am reminded that the people we entrust to educate our children are some of the dumbest people in the country.

shuddup. not all teechers r bad. i was tot very good

There was nothing violent on that lunch box....

I'm offended that these people are offended. This everyone being offended at everything needs to stop. The meaning of tolerance is something that seems to be misunderstood.

With their reasoning we can say that any image of any human on a lunch box is too violent for school because humans are violent. every human has done something violent at some point in their life. may as well add animals to that list as well because animals are violent. also the weather, it's violent.

Why not say it's misogynistic as well because they are trying to obscure a fictional strong woman that stands for justice.

Lets watch the liberals tear eachother apart from every angle because they will inevitably be offended by everything including them self's.

The school defines superheros as violent.

A lunchbox with Supernam holding a baby would be not allowed.

But yes, its STUPID.

Anything to keep the public focused on fake *** instead of seeing the truth of what is putting us all on edge and bringing out our violent tendencies.
Fear often leads to anxiety which leads to frustration which leads to hopelessness which leads to helplessness which leads to feeling like an animal backed into a corner, and then panic, violence, and hate take over. One major source of fear that leaves one helpless and backed into a corner is the fear our own government feeds us via the news media. I know that when I was in grade school I was full of a near PTSD fear level knowing we could all die at any moment due to the conflict between Cuba and the US government. This sort of fear mongering propaganda continues to this day. It's not just children effected. Most people don't even realise how deeply fear and anxiety can penetrate every aspect of their life. Most people can not see the root of their problems despite being painfully aware of their problems. This not being able to find the root leads to blaming many scapegoats. I could tell you who is the mastermind of fear but that is another discussion for another thread.