The term dumbing down was previously used as a slang expression in 1933 by film screenwriters meaning to, “revising, the script to appeal to those of lower education or intelligence (Hagopian)".Once upon a time, long ago America reigned supreme as a leading model for the world, providing the best quality free public K-12 educational system on the planet, “but now it seems an insidious federal agenda has been implemented to(Hagopian)” brainwash a society into mindless, robotic citizenry that simply obeys as it's told, and of course the brainwashing commences early in America’s schools. “Concealed in the fine print is the not so thinly veiled Trojan horse (Hagopian)” promoting the same New World Order that Dewey and Huxley were driving at nearly seven decades earlier.
Today most education is controlled by the federal government, With 43 out of the 50 states already signed up for Common Core, "public education run by local communities and states is clearly under siege(Hagopian)". If a school district accept even $1 from the federal government, it automatically …show more content…
They want students to think that protest is wrong. In fact, they go a step further. They want to stop students from even questioning the established order in the classroom. A substantive quality education should teach the curious developing mind to be critical and discriminating, willing to ask questions, challenging the status quo of preconceived suppositions and accepted dogma. With an educational system that purposely misinforms and indoctrinates young people to respond as Skinnerian rats to a positive reinforcement schedule of operant conditioning, children as future adults are being shaped and programmed to become little robots easily controlled by their oligarch