LATINO Most of us would fail the U.S. citizenship test, survey finds

NBC News ^ | October 12, 2018 | Allyson Escobar

[Ancient Man]

The survey, released Oct. 3 by the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation with the research firm Lincoln Park Strategies, sampled 1,000 American adults. It showed that only 36 percent actually passed the test. Respondents 65 and older scored the best (74 percent), while only 19 percent of test-takers 45 and younger passed.

[Bonemaker]

“Massachusetts just enacted a law requiring civics education in the schools.”

Communist Manifesto required reading.

[Baynative]

It's been a while, but moving from 8th grade to High School required passing "The Constitution Test" in my day. It was like prepping for a bar exam, we thought about it all the time.

Things are much different now and probably not going to get better for kids in government controlled schools.

[FlingWingFlyer]

Take it up with YOUR WORTHLESS PUBLIC SCHOOLS, Allyson. Little kids don’t have time for history and civics with all the pressure put on them by the school teachers and officials to decide with “gender” and “race” they prefer to be.

[Bonemaker]

“Yep, we took Civics and American History”

That’s been broomed and replaced with global warming and diversity classes.

[Southside_Chicago_Republican]

I am in training to teach a citizenship preparation class. I have seen the test. As part of the curriculum, students learn the answers to 100 questions on American history, government, and geography. It isn’t rocket science. It what
average native-born Americans should know if they are even halfway paying attention in school or to the world around him.

[Mears]

Probably! :-)

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[patriotspride]

Kids are not required to take civics classes anymore. In my day, when you still walked to school, you were required to pass a civics test at the end of eighth grade with a grade of 70% or better. Then again in sophomore year. Now the snowflakes learn and know zippo, nada, nothing except how to get offended.

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They should also be tested on how long do you pay social security and Medicare. Can social security, a tax, be taxed again based on your earning more than an allowed limit, and how much is that.

Do people who have never paid into these systems get covered. In other words you pay for someone who didn’t contribute.

The results would be eye opening when they see how long “ Dracula aka Feds” drain your income.....

[bigbob]

Anyone who has watched Jesse Waters interviews would know this. Most of them would probably flunk a blood test...

[Southside_Chicago_Republican]

Sorry for the grammar errors. I was rushing this post before I went into church!

[Delta 21]

95% after 100 questions. If this is a stumbling block in the path of dreamers then so be it.

[Chgogal]

I was a Northside Chicago Republican........

[Delta 21]

I’ll take a Sunday morning Mulligan on one.

Ciphering the PC nomenclature into a rationally thought out and asked question? Thats not on me.

[Mears]

“anyone who misses even one question should be ashamed”

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I missed one and I’m not the least bit ashamed——it was poorly worded and had a question regarding the length of some U.S. rivers-——a ridiculous quiz.

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[Dalberg-Acton]

It must be easy, I got 100% correct.

[EinNYC]

I'm quite sure that if you would sit in on a current American History class, it would be full of anti-white references. It might even dredge up the first gay to do ____. It would certainly denigrate the bravery and accomplishments of George Washington et al, both as white and as men. Maybe even as being straight. I'm sure any class debates would include white privilege, how blacks have been kept down by the white man, how gays have been persecuted, etc. All a bunch of tangential points, while the important essentials of American history are shunted to the side. It would be exactly as if a hard core commie taught the class. And indeed, today you have a bunch of socialist-leaning people using their position as teacher to put that slant on it.

Bring back traditional American History courses. They are sorely needed. But first, you'd need some conservative teachers to teach them, and they have been driven out of most school systems.

[stanne]

If only you had to pass the test in order to run for office

[Innovative]

We just need to change the educational system to tech kids the important things, not leftist propaganda.

[marajade]

I scored 90%.

[stanne]

Oh yeah. When was the constitution written 1787 or 1789?

Come on.

I took it three times. The repeating questions have Obama, you can vote if in us elections if you weren’t born here, filler questions like how many Stars and Stripes

There IS a question regarding what does the flag stand for — which eludes NFL execs and fans not to mention NFL thugs

[virgil]

In Illinois, we were required to take civics class, pass the U.S. constitution test, and take a classes in US and Illinois history. I knew the state song, the state motto, the the state bird and the state animal, and I still know it. All students read Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar in English class no matter how you were tracked. That was in the 70s.