From: -hh <recscuba_google@huntzinger.com>
Newsgroups: can.politics,alt.fan.rush-limbaugh,alt.politics.trump
Subject: Re: Well this won't come as any shock...
Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2025 21:34:21 -0400
Organization: A noiseless patient Spider
On 9/4/25 21:10, pothead wrote:
> On 2025-09-04, -hh <recscuba_google@huntzinger.com> wrote:
>> On 9/3/25 18:38, pothead wrote:
>>> On 2025-09-03, Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com> wrote:
>>>> On 2025-09-03 15:07, pothead wrote:
>>>>> On 2025-09-03, Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com> wrote:
>>>>>> ...to we Canadians, anyway.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> <https://www.tradingplatforms.co.uk/research/the-worlds-smartest-nations-ranking-intelligence-in-2025/>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Canada: 10th.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The US of A: Didn't crack the top 20.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> By IQ, Canada was 11th and the US...
>>>>>>
>>>>>> ...25th.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> In fact, there isn't a single metric there that has the US ahead of Canada.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> And Florida...
>>>>>>
>>>>>> ...ranks 13th in IQ...
>>>>>>
>>>>>> ...13th from last.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> <https://worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankings/average-iq-by-state>
>>>>>
>>>>> And how much money is the Teacher's Union and DOE getting each year?
>>>>> Obviously they are failing and have been failing for a long time.
>>>>
>>>> Isn't it great that you know all the answers?
>>>
>>> I see 2 agencies getting tons of money and I see students who are not learning.
>>> There is nothing more to know.
>>
>> The DoE doesn't teach students. Nor does it fund teachers Unions.
>
> I never said they did.
Well then it ain't your tax money, so stop yer whining.
>
> "The Department of Education oversees education policy, administers federal funding for educational programs, and ensures equal access to education for all students. It provides resources and support to schools, students, and families to promote educational equity and improve educational outcomes."
>
> And they are failing at every single one of those.
Nope! You're trying to draw a line with only one data point, which is a
logical fallacy failure on your part.
And because you don't have the data point as to what student performance
would have been without the DoE, you can't connect your line.
Case in point:
> The public education system in the is a disaster.
> It's so bad that last year Harvard had to institute remedial programs
> to teach incoming freshman basic math skills to bring
> them up to college level.
So what?
Because 40 years ago, my first college roommate took remedials too:
you've failed to show that students are worse today than in the past.
And that you've made such an obvious logical failure shows that your own
education sucked from back then too.
-hh