It seems that, by the day, people are become stupider by the minute. True, America in general is getting dumber. Reports from around the world note America’s declining levels of academic proficiency in many areas. The United States has fallen from top of the class to average in world-education rankings, according to the International Student Assessment (PISA) report, which compares the knowledge and skills of 15-year-olds in 70 countries around the world. The report ranked the United States 14th out of 34 OECD countries for reading skills, 17th for science and a below-average 25th for mathematics.
Overall, the percentage of 12th-grade students performing at or above the Basic level in reading has fallen from 80 percent to 73 percent since 1992, with the percentage performing at or above Proficient declining from 40 percent to 35 percent during the same time.
These statistics are obviously impacting the general populous because people are doing more idiotic things now more than ever before, from criminals who boast about robbing banks to the recent inductee into the Stupid Facebook Criminal Hall of Shame, Eley London.
According to police, London, a 20-year-old Philadelphia mother sought and found a hit man on Facebook after an argument with her ex-boyfriend, reports the New York Daily News. “I will pay somebody a stack to kill my baby father,” she posted on her profile.
The individual who agreed to carry out her request for the $1,000 was Tim Bynum, 18.
Official investigators said the man returned a post to London on the social media site that read, “Say no more … what he look like? … Where he be at?” The genius also posted a photograph of himself holding a gun. The aunt of the targeted victim informed police, since London obviously had forgotten his family was among her Facebook friends and could read every post on her wall.
Police found a handgun, with the serial numbers removed, at Bynum’s home. “It’s shocking that people are just so stupid,” said a police lieutenant. –torrance t. stephens, ph.d.
