In terms of ignorance, try these tests of basic citizenship/history against an elite group, like Ivy League GRADUATES! You get the same BLANK STARE! All of those basic knowledge classes that they used to teach, like Western Civilization? Gone with the politically correct wind!
Would it be too much, honestly, to require the FACULTY of EVERY PUBLIC HIGH SCHOOL (including administrators) to pass the US Citizenship Exam required of all naturalization applicants?
The answer, of course, is that such would be totally unfair, because it would expose the state of our non-education system!
“All those basic knowledge classes they used to teach, like Western Civilization? Gone with the politically correct wind!”
Eurocentric, white colonialist viewpoint. Thass ray-ciss!
And Judeo-Christian. We ain’t got time fo’ dat.
My local library has a free box by the door, filled with unwanted donated books. I snagged a high school American history textbook, curious to study the PC version of American history.
Gawdamighty! A hodgepodge of disjointed, unconnected and incomprehensible factoids, strung together by the most tenuous of threads.
The subjects were obviously chosen by class- and race-conscious committees, and plopped onto the page; as a reader, I got a dizzying sensation of a fly darting from one morsel to another, without really savoring or learning anything.
The objective obviously is to be “inclusive” of the point of view of every immigrant, ethnic, and grievance group. But the result is no overarching viewpoint, and no sense of e pluribus unum, or of the great American experiment as a noble, or even desirable, ideal.
I have a solid education and a lifetime of voracious reading. So the thousands of references were not unfamiliar to me.
But to any youngster encountering these thrown together dates, events, and groups for the first time, the book was simply incomprehensible, gibberish.I can easily see how the average high schooler would simply glaze over and tune it all out. Too confusing!
As a nation we have unfortunately decided that the melting pot idea of America is racist. and that a Balkanized nation of warring ethnicities is somehow more inclusive..