Today's Kids: Dumbed down into subservience?

I'm not much a fan of Kathleen Parker and wary of anything the Knight Foundation does. It just seems likely that the bad news here is sugar coated. If so, then the contents of this article are really, really scary.

What they don't know can hurt them
Kathleen Parker, USA Today

In a recent study, the largest ever of its kind, the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation attempted to measure high school students' understanding of the First Amendment and the free press. Among the more depressing results:

• More than a third (35%) said the First Amendment goes "too far" in the rights it guarantees.
• Close to a third (32%) think the press has too much freedom.
• Only half of students surveyed (51%) said newspapers should be allowed to publish stories without prior government approval.

Methinks our public schools have prepared several fine crops of lemmings ripe for totalitarian rule.

Stupid, stupid, stupid...