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75 Percent of Oklahoma High School Students Can't Name the First President of the U.S.
news9.com ^ | 9/17/09 | staff

Posted on 09/17/2009 10:02:45 AM PDT by Nachum

OKLAHOMA CITY -- Only one in four Oklahoma public high school students can name the first President of the United States, according to a survey released today.

The survey was commissioned by the Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs in observance of Constitution Day on Thursday.

Brandon Dutcher is with the conservative think tank and said the group wanted to find out how much civic knowledge Oklahoma high school students know.

(Excerpt) Read more at news9.com ...


TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; US: Oklahoma
KEYWORDS: 75; education; oklahoma; percent; publiceducation; publicschools; schools; students
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To: Nachum

And the Governor of Oklahoma is a member of the ...... (drum roll)... Democretin Party.


81 posted on 09/17/2009 12:08:15 PM PDT by rfp1234
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To: A. Patriot

“President of the Continental Congress. . . .”

Yes, that was a tricky question. No wonder so many of them got tripped up.


82 posted on 09/17/2009 12:09:22 PM PDT by Genoa
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To: Nachum
"They're questions taken from the actual exam that you have to take to become a U.S. citizen," Dutcher said.

A thousand students were given 10 questions drawn from the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services item bank. Candidates for U.S. citizenship must answer six questions correctly in order to become citizens.

About 92 percent of the people who take the citizenship test pass on their first try, according to immigration service data. However, Oklahoma students did not fare as well. Only about 3 percent of the students surveyed would have passed the citizenship test.

This is why I think we should put 10 citizenship questions on every ballot. Your vote is weighed by the percent correct of the citizenship questions. If you want your vote to count, you should at least know the basics.
83 posted on 09/17/2009 12:13:30 PM PDT by esarlls3
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To: TankerKC

Where did you find that graphic?


84 posted on 09/17/2009 12:14:24 PM PDT by esarlls3
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To: Lucky Dog
Your claim is misleading. Yes, the Articles of Confederation in Article I states:

The Stile of this Confederacy shall be "The United States of America."

And in Article II, the Articles state among other things that each state retains its sovereignty.

The expression "the United States in Congress assembled" occurs 28 times (by my count) in the A of C.

But the word "president" occurs just once in this document, in Article IX.

In that article, the A of C gave "the United States in Congress assembled" the authority to create 'A Committee of the States' with one member from each state, to meet when the Congress was out of session. This committee could appoint officers, including a president of the governing authority. The president was not referred to in the Articles of Confederation as the President of the United States of America. Period.

Some on this board have tried to conflate the stile of "The United States of America" from Article I with the presiding officer of the committee mentioned in Article IX. Some FReepers like to conflate unrelated things to prove their points of view. It's a free country.
85 posted on 09/17/2009 12:15:08 PM PDT by normanpubbie
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To: Nachum

As with everything, we need a demographic breakdown.

Would anybody venture that result?


86 posted on 09/17/2009 12:18:47 PM PDT by truth_seeker
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To: A. Patriot

I’m sure that less than 0.0001% of the 75% of OK kids that didn’t name Washington named John Hanson instead.

And, no, John Hanson was not the first president of the United States.


87 posted on 09/17/2009 12:20:01 PM PDT by AuH2ORepublican (Fred Thompson appears human-sized because he is actually standing a million miles away.)
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To: truth_seeker

“As with everything, we need a demographic breakdown.”

####

And therein lies the crux of the matter.

I am stating the OBVIOUS, am I not?


88 posted on 09/17/2009 12:20:08 PM PDT by EyeGuy
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To: rfp1234
Two percent think MICHAEL Jackson wrote the Declaration.

I'm going to give them a pass. At least Michael had a long career and did write "Leave Me Alone"... ;)

89 posted on 09/17/2009 12:20:50 PM PDT by TankerKC (No Taxation Without Lubrication)
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To: max americana
Google Results 1 of about 109,000,000 for Washington High School. (0.37 seconds)

Lot of schools named after George, but doubt if they still have pictures of the White Racist on the walls anymore.

90 posted on 09/17/2009 12:21:30 PM PDT by itsahoot (Each generation takes to excess, what the previous generation accepted in moderation.)
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To: esarlls3
Here:  Read the Full Report from OCPA 
91 posted on 09/17/2009 12:24:09 PM PDT by TankerKC (No Taxation Without Lubrication)
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To: Nachum
Only one in four Oklahoma public high school students can name the first President of the United States, according to a survey released today.
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Okay? ....So?..How many Freepers out there are **still** using the government schools?

This is Oklahoma, folks! This is one of the most conservative states in the union and even their government schools are snake pits of ignorance! Why on earth would you think that your child's government school is somehow better!

Oh!...And if you are attempting to fill in the gaps at home, why not just homeschool? It is far, far, far easier and takes much, much, much LESS time to do it right the first time by simply homeschooling from the beginning!

When are conservatives going to wake up, get their kids out of the government school cesspools, work to shut done every government K-12 school in the nation, and set up private tuition-free alternatives?

92 posted on 09/17/2009 12:25:27 PM PDT by wintertime (People are not stupid! Good ideas win!)
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To: Ted Grant

Yes.


93 posted on 09/17/2009 12:31:21 PM PDT by normanpubbie
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To: TankerKC

Do you have the graphic for the question about the first president?

Looking at the responses, I have to assume that they gave the kids choices. How else do you explain 2% saying that Michael Jackson wrote the Declaration of Independence, or that 4% think that the first 10 amendments to the Constitution are known as the Monroe Doctrine?

I just noticed that the responses to the question about the number of members of the U.S. Supreme Court add up to 100% (inclusive of “don’t know”), and the responses include 12, 10, 9, 8, 6 and 5 (all with between 5% and 21% of responses) but not, say, 7 or 50 or some other number that dumb kids might guess. So they definitely gave the kids choices for each question. And roughly 3/4 of the kids *still* couldn’t answer questions that my 3-year-old could answer.


94 posted on 09/17/2009 12:31:42 PM PDT by AuH2ORepublican (Fred Thompson appears human-sized because he is actually standing a million miles away.)
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To: Nachum

I wonder what the % would have been had the answer been a write-in rather than multiple choice.


95 posted on 09/17/2009 12:33:37 PM PDT by Trillian
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To: TankerKC
I saw that you posted a link to the report, and found the graphics for the 4 questions that you hadn't posted:


96 posted on 09/17/2009 12:34:47 PM PDT by AuH2ORepublican (Fred Thompson appears human-sized because he is actually standing a million miles away.)
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To: Old Sarge

Wasn’t the first president the one who chopped down a cherry tree? I remember making axe cookies in grade school.


97 posted on 09/17/2009 12:36:17 PM PDT by RobRoy (The US today: Revelation 18:4)
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To: Ted Grant
I know who Barry Switzer was

But do you know the name of the assistant coach, whose wife, Barry was boinking?

98 posted on 09/17/2009 12:37:29 PM PDT by itsahoot (Each generation takes to excess, what the previous generation accepted in moderation.)
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To: Nachum; TankerKC

Question #7 purported to give kids two choices, but both choices were pretty much the same:

“What are the two major political parties in the United States?

A. Democrat and Republican

B. Communist and Republican”

I think that the 11% that answered “Communist and Republican” should at least get partial credit. : )


99 posted on 09/17/2009 12:40:34 PM PDT by AuH2ORepublican (Fred Thompson appears human-sized because he is actually standing a million miles away.)
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To: EyeGuy

Washington High School
101 E. Kerby
Washington, OK 73093
Phone: (405) 288-2354
Washington School District

I wonder how this school did?


100 posted on 09/17/2009 12:42:17 PM PDT by itsahoot (Each generation takes to excess, what the previous generation accepted in moderation.)
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