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>This is plausible.  There is reasonably solid evidence that U.S. 
>Kindergarten actively instructs students to act unintelligent, and that 
>this behavior is *difficult* to unlearn.
I thought kindergarten teaches kids how to 1) sit still; 2) listen
while an adult speaks to a _group_ of children; 3) play (relatively)
nicely with other children; 4) sing and do simple artwork; 5) perhaps 
learn to read (if not known yet).  (This seems to be what happened 
with my children, at least.)
What about kindergarten "instructs students to act unintelligent"?
Is it a plan or ?bad? teachers?  Or?
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