The Value Wastelands

Critique Thevalue Wasteland Charles Skyes work has been in seen in many prosperous newspapers end-to-end time, to name a few New York Times and the W either passage Journal. Most of what Skyes writes is educational issues. Skyes has also written a number of controls, ProfScam Professors and the expiry of Higher Education (1988), The Hollow Man Politics and Corruption in Higher Education (1990) and 50 Rules Kids Wont Learn In School (2007).Skyes is involved in many some other things for example he is a senior fellow at the Wisconsin Policy Research land and he hosts a radio show in Milwaukee that is popular. Skyes addresses mostly topics that he sees as breakdown in the American culture. The following critique is from an move out from Skyes book Dumbing Down Our Kids Why Americas Children Feel healthy About Themselves But Cant Read, Write or Add. Skyes addresses many controversial moral issues within American children today, giving statistics from many diametrical contemp lates claiming that American children be non so intune as they once were.Skyes also quotes a few different tribe that project fall aparte confused studies and or surveys along with his own opinions on these alike issues. Skyes conclusion is that we have precondition our children array of irrational morals and that we need to look at the ones who provide them to these children. Skyes embroils all that is cast out and has no mind for any of the supportive with our children today. A weakness of this bind, Skyes has put down children and their morals and then takes his refs with points that it is the p atomic number 18nts, communities, the media and still the churches that society need to take a look at and harmonize the blame there.Charles Skyes distil TheValues Wasteland gives an example of a stripling who was accused of rape and the repercussions afterwards. Skyes introduces his exacters with statistics and research on issues such as it was pleasing for a man to fo rce sex on a fair sex (199). Skyes statistics have his commentators believing that this is all teens. Skyes credibility is for his self-gain, precisely showing his visualize point. He does not tell his readers where in Rhode Island the statistics were gathered from. Were the statistics taken from only urban areas, or rural areas?Skyes inferences are based solely on one group of students giving a sense of incomplete comparison. The article explicitly and deliberately distracts the readers to other issues that Skyes thinks will hit much at home or so morals. A write in survey of 126,000 teenagers nominate that 25 to 40 percent of teens see nothing wrong with rip off on exams, stealing from employers, or keeping money that wasnt theirs(199). Grabbing the wariness of the readers with a red herring knowing that this issue would cause the reader to identify.Skyes only includes from the survey that one point. Skyes hasty generalization gives his readers insufficient statistics and what the survey was based on while playing on his readers emotions. Skyes purpose for this book clearly shows how he perceives American children. He gives factual statistics on the negative influences on American children to swing his readers into believing that todays they are need of a huge change and reform. Skyes has written continuously roughly the educational issues in America.Taking a look back at his other work and what he is involved in now, TV, Radio, books, it is all virtually the same things educational issues with children and how we need to act on changing it or perpetually be doomed. Skyes effectively gave all negative statistics, doing his research thoroughly although it was kind of biased, skipping over anything that had anything to do with the positive. More than 60 percent of high prepare students said they had cheated at least once on an exam(199).Showing the full-grown amount of students that admitted to cheating yet there is nothing to support this stat istic as the actual question and how it was worded and how Skyes actually came to have that 60 percent of students. Did it interpose from one school or many schools? Skyes needed to give more culture about the statistics he acquired and focus less on the negative. Skyes uses the give voice IDIs (I-Deserve-Its) saying that todays kids are all about entitlement and are completely surrounded by personal necessarily wants and dont wants and rights. (199) Again where is Skyes getting all his information? In the scantiness stricken areas or middle class? It really does make a difference where Skyes got his information. Then he could have added in the different neighborhoods that people need to really take a look at and change. As the reader, I dont know. Perhaps it is an all-around assement maybe not besides, Skyes is not rattling clear on the wheres, or hows. His argument is validated to a point but does not give any information for the readers to make a decision.Skyes leaves thi s wide open for the reader to think that it is all American kids that are IDIs. Skyes compares American children to Asian children who are not given a choice in what they are allowed to read. Asian children continue to read about stories of perseverance, hard work, loyalty, duty, prudence, heroism, and honesty(200). The examples that Skyes gives that American students used to study are all white and dead Benjamin Franklin, Florence Nightingale and Thomas Edison.Skyes boosts that they taught lessons of inventiveness, character, compassion, curiosity, and truthfulness(200). I match that all of those mentioned are very noble historical people but we do have in todays living that carry the same lessons that children can relate with more than a bunch of dead white people. This was a very racist rumourmonger made by Skyes and his credibility went right out the window. Skyes has given a lot of statistics of negative morals with our American children of today.He does not allow the reade r to make his or her own educated decision without giving anything to go on except the negative statistics that Skyes has provided. Skyes tries to convince the readers that it is not just the schools but parents, media, and church that are to blame for the way American kids are. In auxiliary he has proven his racism with comments he has slipped in trying to sway the reader to think that other children are better than the American child. This excerpt makes me exceptionally angry with Skyes who makes me think that he is all holier than thou.Skyes knocks down the very country he lives in. He makes some very interesting points about the way children may think, but I do not agree with him. I feel that the American children are right where they are supposed(p) to be. These issues have always been. If he really wants a change, Skyes needs to include all the good that could be going on and not release teachers, parent, and clergy members feeling helpless. This excerpt was poorly thought out and Skyes really needs to reevaluate his own morals and social issues.