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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]For all of you saying that you just have to "avail yourself of education if you are poor."  Do you honestly believe that some 60% of kids are not reading at grade level nationwide because their parents are failures.  Do you honestly believe if it was just that easy more would not do it?  At some point you have to look at where we are and make a decision to improve it by thinking about the situation in a different way.  Feeling superiour does nothing but make you annoying.[/quote]

Not the PP, but YES.  I HONESTLY BELIEVE THAT.

It is an ABSOLUTE FACT that there is a broad swath of American culture that does not value education, and many who in fact go even further to the point of being staunchly anti-intellectual.  It's typically the nerdy kids and bookworms who receive the brunt of teasing, bullying and abuse in schools all across this country.  There are many who mistakenly feel school is for losers, and either just want to bumble along through life cluelessly, or who want to gamble away their chance at education and squander their focus on some deluded ideas of shortcuts to stardom, whether athletics, entertainment, crime or some other means - though the reality of that succeeding is even more remote than your likelihood of being struck by lightning, whereas your chances of getting stability and a good career and income are far better if you instead focus on academics.

And lest you feel tempted to spring up in misguided defense of African-American culture (because that's what people here constantly do), you need to drop that and recognize that this isn't a black-vs-white thing either, it happens in broad swaths of white culture as well.  This is why we have rednecks and white trailer park trash.  All one has to do to see that anti-intellectualism is look at folks like Sarah Palin who pander to that demographic, snarling "elitist" at anyone who has an education, or the folks who insist on putting so-called "science textbooks" in schools saying the world is only 6,000 years old despite the vast body of scientific evidence to the contrary.

It's a cross-cutting societal illness that cuts across multiple demographics and cultures here in the US.  People like to talk about Finland's success?  Well, a big part of that is that education is actually far more universally recognized as important across Finn culture, their culture is different than ours.[/quote]

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