Maybe things are the way they are for a reason? (Score 1)

The only problem with american children excelling academically is that they will be smarter. I am all for the cultivation of the intellect but i believe that the powers that be are NOT. who would believe the 911 myth if they all genuinely understood the laws of physics? nobody. and the bottom line is that if our government needs to tell a really big lie to further an agenda, they need the people they are deceiving to either be thoroughly uneducated or in a distracted into complacency. it's not paranoid or pessimistic, it's the way things are. the only solution is to be educated enough to encourage and assist your own child in their education process.