Commentary On The Film Stupid In America

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Stupid in America is documentary based on the United States education system, its teachers and most importantly its students. This film shows all the flaw there is in our schools throughout the country. Even though this documentary seem to have some unexplainable alternative motive behind it, the film itself shows everything going on in the inside of our public school system.

The very first topic this documentary talks about is money. I personally believe that if schools were given more money and if those schools used it properly, at the very least a quarter of the problem would be solved. At the beginning of the money segment they report on a certain school spending billions of dollars on pools, gymnasiums and other nonsense. This was obviously

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