U.S FILLING UP WITH DUMB PEOPLE: IMMIGRATION’S ULTIMATE DILEMMA

By Frosty Wooldridge
October 22, 2009
NewsWithViews.com

Part 1: Illiteracy leads to shoplifting, babies, crime, gangs

As an educator in Colorado through the 70s, 80s and 90s, I watched academic standards and expectations drop like a brick in a bucket of water, like a jet fighter plane auguring into the ground, like water cascading over Niagara Falls. As if guided by an invisible hand nationwide, administrators forced teachers to dumb down the academic requirements. Teachers passed kids to the next grade level whether those children performed or not.

As they failed to cement their educational foundations with the basics—the gaps in their math, science, reading and English skills—created terrible frustrations in their personal lives. When their irritation levels became too great, they ‘gave up’ their pursuit of minimal levels of educational achievement. Often, while being ‘pushed’ up through grade levels, they acted out their annoyances with disrespect for teachers as they became malcontents, troublemakers or shut down all together to cope with their growing lack of self-esteem and failures.

This year, Paul Robeson High School in Chicago, Illinois featured 115 pregnant girls. That equals not only115 dumb girls, but 115 dumb boys, which will beget 115 more troubled babies facing horrific futures on all counts. Thus, millions drop out or ‘graduate’ functionally illiterate, i.e., cannot think critically, read at a fifth grade level or balance a check book.

To completely upend and degrade the educational systems of America, the late U.S. Senator Teddy Kennedy, in 1965, passed a bill to inject 1.2 to 1.5 million immigrants into the equation annually. They arrived with dozens of languages, cultural bias against education and hostility toward learning.

Forty years later, and 100 million people added to the United States from disparate cultures around the world, educational systems around America grind on in total chaos. With a 600,000 Middle Eastern immigrant load in Detroit, Michigan, as reported by NBC’s Brian Williams, “…76 percent of high school students in Detroit schools flunked out this June…other cities like Chicago, Los Angeles and Houston feature similar dropout rates from 50 to 60 percent…each year 1.2 million teens hit the streets illiterate.â€