Jeff Rense describes America's youth all too well in this incredibly insightful summation:

We have, indeed, essentially lost most of the next generation. The causes are more than obvious:

The government schools with brainwashing, stultifying, revisionist PC curriculums and staffed with ever-less capable teachers reformatted to create non-reading, non-thinking, nearly non-verbal morons;

The devastating cradle-to-grave mind control of commercial TV - the most withering weapon ever unleashed on human kind; The unlimited sex and reflexive violence and immorality conveyed and marketed in many/most films and 'pop culture' media;

Hideously ugly 'people' magazines purveying…nearly demanding…attention and obedience to an endless stream of insipid 'cool' role models and the cheapest sensationalism;

The astonishing vapid, often vile, negative, self-pitying 'music' ingraining and reinforcing boundless hedonism, anger, rage, self-indulgence and the taking of ever more plentiful street drugs;

Countless millions of broken homes and miserably failed parents producing incompetent, virtually unteachable students; Ruthless school peer pressure and brutality…strong enough to push tragically betrayed and sold-out young people to mass murder and suicide;

The pharmaceutical cartel's medicating/destroying of millions of elementary and teenage children whose lives will never fully recover from their 'therapy';

A youth 'culture' dominated by image, wallowing in victim-hood, committed to non-responsibility, obsessed with sex and 'friends' and 'style' and headed toward a multitude of sexually-transmitted diseases, many fatal;

A national diet of the most worthless and criminally-contaminated disease-producing food in history; and much more.

America has been usurped, raped and destroyed by greed and by a group of people whose goal has been, for centuries, the subjugation and servitude of the human race. The 'next' generation will walk, mindlessly, fat, with many obese, and in poor health, through a droll, utterly predictable lifetime of the most unprecedented stupidity and self-gratification - and self-destruction - in modern history. (rense.com)

Then there is 16 year old Ashley Anderson's article: "America's Failing Public School System." (newswithviews.com)

We find also, the deliberate dumbing down of america, a classic book by

Charlotte Thomson Iserbyt, former Senior Policy Advisor in the U.S. Department of Education, who blew the whistle in the `80s on government activities withheld from the public. Her inside knowledge will help you protect your children from controversial methods and programs. (deliberatedumbingdown.com)