How dumb are our kids?

[The Dad Fisherman]

That is Friggin Hilarious...I'm still laughing while I'm typing this.

I whole heartedly Agree about the Adolescent Male thing. Sometimes I'm Amazed that the Boy Scouts are still in existence. You get 2 dozen boys together in the woods and then hand them Axes, Knives, and Matches....and expect them NOT to get in trouble

A couple of years ago I went on a Field trip with my son to pioneer Village...kind of like a Pilgrim village. The woman doing the tour is asking all these questions.....and my Son is nailing 'em. I'm being the proud dad and thinking I got the smartest kid in the school.

That very night I'm saying good night to him and I notice he's picking at his hair.

So I say "What are you Doing"

He Says "Getting the glue out of my Hair"

So I say "How'd you get glue in your Hair?"

His response "I Put it There"

WTF....he was friggin Einstein 6 hours earlier and now he's Curly Howard.

I thought it was just Him....But They Are ALL Like That.

Originally Posted by whiplash

Sometimes I wonder how the race has survived male adolesents. Having two teenage boys has had me shaking my head for 9 years now. I swear they had more sense when they were 6. Example
#2 son get a model rocket set for Christmas and is fasinated by electric igniter- wires it up to his braces and asks #1 to pull trigger- the sparks were from what I heard, besides the scream, were great. #2 is now pissed at #1 and wacks him in the head and guess what- #2 breaks his hand on #1's head --Bad day for #2. 2 weeks later #2 sneaks up and zapps #1 with a home made tazer- you take the flash out of a disposible camera-knocks him across the room. And my wife wonders why I drink.

[Rockfish9]

Mine are all grown and gone, but I swear, they put their common sense brains in a draw at age 12-15 and leave them there for about 15 years....

[baldwin]

"Stoopid teachers =stoopid students. Our educators live in a make believe world. They declare themselves successful and run around patting themselves on the backs. Then ask for more money to teach the same kids."
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Now that's an intelligent comment that makes me have doubts about your own teachers. You can't generalize about educators any more than PETA members do about fishermen as lazy, uneducated rednecks who sit around on a beach all day on a lawnchair with a cooler of beer, not catching anything. If you want to look intelligent, put a little more thought into your answers.
Yes, there are lazy kids, there are incompetent teachers, and there are incompetent parents who don't teach their kids to value education and a work ethic. You can't really pin the blame on one factor alone.
But...we do have a lot of very ambitious, intelligent kids with a great work ethic. I have high school students doing recombinant DNA technology and putting genes for fluorescent proteins into bacteria, then isolating and purifying those proteins. Add these to high school juniors taking courses at Yale University, and getting good grades. I do, though, see that a lot of kids seem to be lacking measurement skills and writing skills. I wonder if education today really puts enough emphasis on learning the basics well, rather than learning a mile wide and an inch deep.