Freddogg Off The Chain

I found out why commentaries about American Idol always find their way onto legitimate newscasts because I am always screaming back at the television “Why are we talking about this crap” and to borrow a line from Marty Feldman as Igor in Young Frankenstein “I don’t know I thought you wanted to.”
Web hits are monitored then legitimate news outlets succumb to the basest of base level interests and give American morons what they don’t even know they want but what they don’t want is anything extending beyond three paragraphs that involves compound and complex sentence structure because we have become a nation of verbal idiots and if you don’t believe me check out the winner of the last two presidential elections.
A recent as yesterday published study found that 30 years of required college prep core subjects taught at the high school level reveled that only 25 percent of those students who take the dumb assed ACT test for college demonstrate a level of proficiency equal to C work in remedial classes.
Princeton testing types are appalled and promised to stick their heads back up their own butts for another 30 years while secondary educators across America have exclaimed,”Don’t try blaming that shit on us. That’s what happens when students wear hats and smuggle pop tarts into classrooms.”
In fact, it is a collective cultural effort to dumb down the populace, so they won’t notice that five percent of the non talented Americans have most of the money.
Ever try having an in depth conversation-a little intellectual jousting- with a high school honors student? Don’t because they are project and performance driven seeking the gold star at the end of the rainbow bumper sticker, synthesizing information and actually learning from another person is just not what they do.
I volunteered to teach a non credit course to wallowing and languishing in IR-Independent Research- students-the old study hall minus the study part-titled “Testing Your Beliefs” where smart kids would have to logically defend what they actually believed to be true, the problem is that most of them respond to global issues with a shrug of the shoulders, preferring to argue their rights to park near school when construction is in progress.
Forget “American Idol” bring the “Gong Show” back to the high school classroom.

Professor Freddogg way off the chain snapping at butterflies and barking into thin air.Somebody please fill my water bowl!