Most AZ high school students would fail US citizenship test

Arizona Daily Star ^ | Rhonda Bodfield

[SandRat]

TEST YOURSELF

1. What is the supreme law of the land? Answer: The Constitution. correct 29.5 percent

2. What do we call the first 10 amendments to the Constitution? Answer: The Bill of Rights. correct 25 percent

3. What are the two parts of the U.S. Congress? Answer: The Senate and the House. correct 23 percent

4. How many justices are on the Supreme Court? Answer: Nine. correct 9.4 percent

5. Who wrote the Declaration of Independence? Answer: Thomas Jefferson. correct 25.3 percent

6. What ocean is on the East Coast of the United States? Answer: Atlantic. correct 58.8 percent

7. What are the two major political parties in the United States? Answer: Democratic and Republican. correct 49.6 percent

8. We elect a U.S. senator for how many years? Answer: Six. correct 14.5 percent

9. Who was the first president? Answer: Washington. correct 26.5 percent

10. Who is in charge of the executive branch? Answer: The president. correct 26 percent

[Psycho_Bunny]

uh...I just missed #4....I said 7. lol

[pray4liberty]

Yeeks. I remember those questions...some of them were on my citizenship test!

The one that would really get 'em would be "in what year was the Constitution ratified and where (what city)."

[Clintonfatigued]

I’m willing to bet that you’d see similar results in other states.

[Da Coyote]

How do you think they generate Obama voters?

[nmh]

I am not exaggerating. The goal of the public school system and leftist private and charter schools is to make your kids STUPID or DUMB - take your pick. They constantly water things down and lower the standards.

You still think I'm exaggerating. Okay. Look at the S.A.T.. They took out analogies because kids were clueless and replaced analogies with a subjective essay to write. This gives them wiggle room without a right/wrong answer dilemma. Kids were tanking on analogies so something easier was put in. Analogies require CLEAR THINKING AND LOGIC - it had to go. If you are not a home schooler, become a closet home schooler otherwise your child will join the stupid and the dumb.

[gorush]

Two generations of public education and leftist controlled media means that we are very close to the marxist takeover/coup that Yuri Bezmenov predicted back in the ‘80’s. I don’t believe it can be stopped now.

[metmom]

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[nmh]

My daughter learned that in second grade. In first grade she recited the Gettysburg Address.

Since then I've added more meat to it. I also keep her informed on what is going on.

I made sure she knew it.

I have my own required reading list. She's in fourth grade now and cruising through Animal Farm. She must write a summary for each chapter. Other required readings include, the Communist Manifesto, The Humanist Manifesto and the Christian Manifesto. When she is done with Animal Farm, I will then require her to write a compare and contrast essay on all three.

After the news, thank God ... she's learned to play the harp and settles me down. I am LIVID at what is going on in DC with these imbeciles.

[saganite]

This is a dog bites man story. Call me back when you have a story about well educated students instead of public school drones.

[Don Corleone]

Most AZ high school students would fail US citizenship test

Are most AZ high school students (?) citizens??? /sarc

[wintertime]

Two generations of public education and leftist controlled media means that we are very close to the marxist takeover/coup that Yuri Bezmenov predicted back in the ‘80’s. I don’t believe it can be stopped now.
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I agree. I am on these message boards **daily** crying out to conservatives to remove their children from the government K-12 schools and to work mightily to shut them DOWN! Conservative must work to set up tuition-free, conservative, private alternatives!

I feel like Jeremiah of the Old Testament.

Yuri Bezmenov was right. The “demoralization” is complete. Only “remoralization” can save this nation. Sadly conservatives are clueless!

[gore_sux]

That’s alright, I got #5 wrong, I said “God”

[sionnsar]

One is sometimes tempted to favor Heinlein’s solution regarding voting status. As it is, this country is headed for a fall.

[Wilhelm Tell]

I love the way the educrats claim that the mind is this fragile vessel that can hold only a tiny bit of information, as if the mind is an old 8 kb memory chip. Thus, the argument that one cannot remember the name of the first president and remember how to put on a condom, so the schools need to teach the latter. Remembering facts about WWII is too hard and irrelevant, so better to teach a class about contemporary pop stars.

The mind is almost limitless, given enough time. If you learn the basics of math you have the foundation to learn advanced math. If you have a good education in world history you are in a better place to learn the history of Argentina or Mesopotamia or wherever. If you study Latin, it will help you learn Spanish or Italian. But the educrats claim that children should barely be taught basic skills because if they are crowded with basic facts they will not have enough room for advanced facts. If children are taught basic math too well, someday their little minds will not have enough room for College Algebra or Calculus. What insanity.

[TXnMA]

LOL! I remembered that they’ve had lots of 5:4 decisions lately...

[Psycho_Bunny]

ack....That’s right....now I’m REALLY embarrassed.

[netmilsmom]

My nine year old missed only two.

She didn’t know the term of a Senator and thought there were eight justices.

[<1/1,000,000th%]

The correct answer to #7 is Republican and Communist.