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I Am Boggled . . . 0

. . . and I have never played Boggle.

About one-third of Virginia’s students aren’t ready for kindergarten in at least one learning category, according a two-year study published recently by researchers at the University of Virginia.

Those categories include literacy, math, social skills and self-regulation – children’s ability to manage their emotions and behavior. About 20 percent of students lack the needed social skills. About 11 percent lack literacy skills, and 8.5 percent aren’t ready for math, according to the report.

Five-year-olds are supposed to be ignorant. That’s what schools are for.

Words fail me.

Afterthought:

“Educational science” has become a scam.

Of course, back in the olden days, when I was a young ‘un, it was widely rumored that persons who concentrated in the “E-School” did so because they were unable to cut it in a real major, such as history or physics or chemistry or sociology or even for Pete’s sake Art History. That seems to be unchanged.

We are a society awash in stupid.

Ignorance can be cured. The cure is called “learning.”

Stupid has no cure.

I shall stop now. Otherwise, I shall just sputter.

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