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Three Houston police officers accused of eating pot brownies they allegedly found while arresting suspect on drug possession charge →

In an outstanding example of social media idiocy, three officers who found (and subsequently ate) pot brownies while searching a suspect’s apartment, promptly used their work computers to brag about it on Twitter.

Wow.

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::facepalm:: via i.imgur.com

Quick Takes: Report Says Students Don't Study Enough →

Students these days study only about 14 hours a week, down from 24 in the early 1960s, according to a report released Thursday by the American Enterprise Institute. The report, “Leisure College, USA,” rejects the idea that technology has decreased the need for studying, and suggests that colleges are failing to assign enough work and to enforce requirements.

As a recent student, I read this and thought:

HA! HAHAHAHA!

Studies like this bother me because they take the perspective that the cause must surely be on declining academic standards.

It’s studies like this that display just how out of touch some organizations are with students today.

Students aren’t studying as much as they used to. But the educational standards aren’t the sole cause. Perhaps the American Enterprise Institute (who conducted this study) would do well to realize:

• Students in the 1960s grew up in an industrialized society, with industrialized education. This thing called “The Internet” appeared a few years ago and happened to change everything.
  
  
• Students today have much higher standards for education and learning, and won’t waste their time if they feel their time is being wasted. Just lecture won’t cut it anymore.

• Many students don’t have as much time to study because they have to work nearly full time just to afford the classes they’re missing.The study has the audacity to speculate that students want more leisure time because they have more money. HAH!
  
  
• That “the old days was better” mentality is almost always incorrect. I don’t think anyone wants to go back to the 1960s to witness Vietnam, the assassination of Kennedy and King, The Civil Rights Movement, etc. Times change. Get over it.

My apologies for the vitriol, but I take a strong exception to any group outside of education that ends up displaying their far-reaching ignorance of the field, and the issues of its constituents.

Maybe next time the American Enterprise Institute can stick to their core issues, since Education isn’t even listed among them.