I'm most worried about the 7% that think Obama wrote the Declaration of Independence.
I'm most worried about the 7% that think Obama wrote the Declaration of Independence.
Where do you get the 75% in the posting title that can’t name the first U.S. President, when the first paragraph/sentence says one in four can’t name the first President?
Yeah but how many know who Barry Switzer was?
Wow.
I can remember in Grade School how EVERYONE knew the answer to that question. Even in High School, it was rare to find someone who didn’t know.
I guess condom usage and diversity training is more important.
Of course they know George Washington. They just know him as the dead white slave owner on the dollar bill.
My bad! Need to change out my contacts! Need to get back to work! Need to stop reading so much on FreeRepublic!!!!
Means we really don’t have a “country” in the true sense of the word...
History begins with Obama anyway, according to those running the public school systems.
I was talking about the 2010 elections, and stumped my 15 year old sophomore in high school. He was like what 2010 elections.
Then I proceeded to ask him how often congress is re-elected and then the senate. He knew the president was every 4 years, and he guessed that the senate was every 6 years. He didn’t know that the senators are voted in at different intervals.
He’s been in public and private school throughout the years, and I take the blame for not making sure he doesn’t know simple US government.
Not bad for a public school. Of course we are in Texas and your mileage may differ.
Native American students?
This is great news. 25% now know who the first President was, a huge increase from last year when only 20% knew.
It shows that all it takes is more resources and schools will turn things around.
Think of the success had we inject more funding into those schools. /s
Even in Jenks?
No big deal. He was another evil white racist. (sarcasm off a little bit)
Mix liberal teachers and principals with liberal text books, and you get these results.
I can has college app now?
This is news? Most CA public high school graduates don’t know what a president is and can’t find the U.S. on a world map. They makes the OK kids look like rocket surgeons.
I ask because it used to be - and I assume still is - a popular game among classmates to answer such surveys in entirely ridiculous ways.
One would have thought a large number of my freshman class was addicted to heroin with the way many answered the drug questionnaires.
Of course, I'm sure there's still far too many students (and adults) who can't answer basic civics questions. But I wouldn't put a whole lot of stock in counting on high-schoolers to answer these things honestly.