Seriously guys, I'm really getting sick of this. Yes, it's important to learn how to research, but remember when they invented the calculator and the teacher kept telling you how important it was to learn to do it on paper, and yet...there's a fucking calculator?
This place is our calculator. Nobody is going to take anyone else's words at face value, true. And we shouldn't. But the truth is not everyone knows what everyone else knows and we're not going to learn what everyone knows if we keep sticking our noses in the air and saying "look it up yourself."
You looked it up apparently, do us all a favor and show us where you looked. It will help get us all where we need to be a hell of a lot faster.
Seriously. I don't get bent out of shape about much, but I get so damn tired of a FEW folks coming on this board and demanding to know the difference between "democracy" and a "Constitutional Republic." A simple search and scan of literally ANY search engine's results will provide you (within 30-60 seconds) a summary of that difference that's easy enough for any 6th grader to understand.
Then again, that's a big part of the problem -- few 6th graders, and middle/high schoolers, and even college students, have been deprived of a decent social studies/civics foundation of knowledge in their K-16 academic lives.
Absolutely. Just like looking up a word. These people today have never been told to look up definitions or meanings of words. My daughter in middle school no longer asks me what a word means because she knows I'll tell her to look it up. So now, she just looks it up. The educational system today is geared to dumb our children down and to teach them wokeness. All my daughter's teachers have been told flat out that she is there for a real education and not some diversity bs or crt or wokeness... So far so good...
You are so spot-on....and an awesome, hold-the-line parent, to boot! Our sons are 27 and 25 now, and while they weren't indoctrinated quite as "hard" as what you and your family are facing these days...it was bad enough 10-15 years ago, and we still worry about who "gets to them" out in the real world. My wife and I tried our best, and prayed our way through those developmental years....we have to leave 'em both in God's hands now. :)
Thank you... Cheers Anon... ☕☕☕