Friday, May 9, 2008

Are you smarter than...

I don’t know how anybody else feels about it, but – although highly entertaining – I find the ARE YOU SMARTER THAN A FIFTH GRADER game show a bit of an embarrassment to educators. It is proof positive that the best-working part of our memories is the short-term division. If this is any indication (and I believe it is) of the majority of end results coming from our present-day educational system… YIKES!

Are we all getting dumber and dumber? I don’t think so. But something has definitely gone berserk with our priorities. The fact that we are coming to the close of a second season with this show and nobody has ever won the million dollars is a good example of that. What does it tell us? That the getting of money is the most important thing in life, even if you have to cheat, peek, copy, or degrade yourself to do it. So, ummm… what is that telling our kids?

Don’t get me wrong, I love this show. It's better than the murder and mayhem that's happening on most of the other channels.

Ann