• My Kid Beat Up Your Honor Student - An essay about Anti-Intellectualism in America

     

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Published: 06.05.2004.
Language: English
Level: Secondary school
Literature: n/a
References: Not used
  • Essays 'My Kid Beat Up Your Honor Student - An essay about Anti-Intellectualism in Ameri', 1.
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Have you ever seen on of the popular bumper stickers that proudly proclaim, "My child is an honor student at such and such school", or the responding sticker that says, "My kid beat up your honor student?" This parental display of resentment toward scholarly students is sickening. The non-honor parent is promoting a ridiculous stereotype through out the country: Smart kids are not physically strong. Something is seriously wrong with American culture today when a gifted young individual is segregated from the rest of their peers because of anti-intellectualism. This is so commonplace today…

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