It's Town Meeting Day...can you pass the Civics Quiz?

Take the Civics Quiz at ISI (Intercollegiate Studies Institute) to see if you can pass. 

Young author fears downfall of our democracy after encounter with one homeschooler!

This fellow, Michael Salmonowicz, is a young author who fears our democracy is in dire straits if parents in this country continue to homeschool their children. He shares his concern in this article and bases his argument on an encounter with a single homeschooler he calls 'Sally'.

"When I read that last statement, the educator and citizen in me begin to clash. On one hand, I completely respect a parent’s desire to provide the best possible education and home life for their child. On the other hand, I worry that our democracy is weakened when children grow up without extensive exposure to values, beliefs and worldviews different from their own."

Salmonowicz may have a valid concern about our democracy being in jeopardy but from where I sit it is due to the finished product coming out of public schooling. His smarmy elitist attitude is apparent when he whines: 

"In the days that followed, I thought about this event quite a bit. My mind kept coming back to one thing: Sally’s reaction made perfect sense. As a home-schooled student, she likely did not engage in discussion and debate with people who did not share her religious beliefs, who disagreed with her political views, or who pushed her to think about issues from new perspectives. I had no doubt she was nurtured and encouraged by her parent-teachers, but it appeared that having her beliefs and arguments questioned by others (even when being taught the art of persuasion in college) was a completely foreign concept."

Geeeeeeeeeeesh! Another Ph. D. (post hole digger) with a mind full of mush espousing gobbledygook and trying to pass it off as educational advice. Minor Dork Award here since Salmonowicz isn't yet in a position to do much damage to America's youth, except to those other education majors who listen to his ridiculous advice. 

Want to know the real reason our democracy is in trouble? Go here to read about the ISI report and take the Civics Quiz yourself.

Public school graduates and college students jeopardizing our liberty?

Joe Wolverton, II writes this article for New American revealing how college students are failing miserably at learning civics according to ISI (Intercollegiate Studies Institute). The basic knowledge these young minds lack is standard information we learned in elementary school when I was a child. How is it these college students don't know the basics? Could it be the elementary, middle and high schools in this country are deliberately skipping this information or, worse, teaching too much mind numbing liberal junk?

"ISI, a conservative non-profit educational organization, has recently published the results of this sweeping survey in a 32-page report entitled “The Shaping of the American Mind: The Diverging Influences of the College Degree and Civic Learning on American Beliefs.” Sit down before you read this report because the data will knock you off your feet. " 

Are you sitting down?

"So, while our nation’s most elite colleges are not imbuing our children with a knowledge of our history and our government, the study makes it clear that those universities are becoming round the clock factories churning out poorly instructed liberals with little civic knowledge and even less faith and less devotion to principles of liberty than those Americans who didn’t go to college. "


Take the Civics Quiz yourself here at ISI or watch the ISI video here. Kudos to ISI for all they do!