Video Proof the US School System is NOT About Education

[Optimus]

This is saddening to see exactly how dumb our future generations are going to be. No doubt they are well indoctrinated, however this video proves that they are not being educated. I implore any parents out there that if they value good education for their children then they must pull them out of the school system.

Lunch Scholars

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHtDF-z77wk

Uploaded by SENIOR12913612 on Feb 2, 2012

[kerrymti]

Very sad.  I am so glad that my parents made sure I was learning and knew about the history of our country.  I have also made sure my children are well versed in history and current events.  Those that forget the past are doomed to repeat it.

[Geolibertarian]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHtDF-z77wk

Unfortunately I'm reminded of the following:

"All the beliefs, habits, tastes, emotions, mental attitudes that characterize our time are really designed to sustain the mystique of the Party and prevent the true nature of present-day society from being perceived. Physical rebellion, or any preliminary move towards rebellion, is at present not possible. From the proletarians nothing is to be feared. Left to themselves, they will continue from generation to generation and from century to century, working, breeding, and dying, not only without any impulse to rebel, but without the power of grasping that the world could be other than it is....What opinions the masses hold, or do not hold, is looked on as a matter of indifference. They can be granted intellectual liberty because they have no intellect."

-- George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four, p. 173

[John_Back_From_The_Club_O]

Well, you know, we haven't given the schools enough money. 

[WLGarrison]

Here's an article that suggests some reasons for what we saw in the video.  My opinion is that they questioned kids below the voting age, so politics are not on their radar yet.  Also, they should have ask them about tech issues; they're are probably ahead of the curve on technology.
http://www.youngerthinking.com/?page_id=140

[Mr Grinch]

John Taylor Gatto Education Engineering - Coast to Coast Interview (2005) FULL!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ck_3JHvRQ8w&feature=related