Posted on 01/13/2019 7:23:37 AM PST by 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.
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I guess this is to prove that since the Ministry of Education has been successful at dumbing down the population we no longer deserve to keep our country?
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.
Plus, consider the source.
Publik skrewls are doing their job very well.
BINGO! Same in my day too!
Everything found in a “Civics” exam should be contained in every American History curriculum. They’re not a separate set of facts and learning; however, many have since been expunged.
William Blake
“One of the things that was taken out of the curriculum was civics. Civics was a class that used to be required before you could graduate from high school. You were taught what was in the U.S. Constitution. And after all the student rebellions in the ‘60s, civics was banished from the student curriculum and was replaced by something called social studies. Here we live in a country that has a fabulous constitution and all these guarantees, a contract between the citizens and the government – nobody knows what’s in it. It’s one of the best kept secrets. And so, if you don’t know what your rights are, how can you stand up for them? And furthermore, if you don’t know what is in that document, how can you care if someone is shredding it?” Frank Zappa
“Kids are not required to take civics classes anymore. “
Massachusetts just enacted a law requiring civics education in the schools.
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Yep, we took Civics and American History
We need to change the test, so more can pass it. We need questions like, who played Wonder woman, who sold the most hip hop records, what is on the Starbucks Menu, how much free stuff are you entitled to receive, etc. etc.. Forget the old stuff, that was when all those old white men were in control, and times have changed, we don’t use horse drawn wagons (Budweiser is exempt), and buggy whips any more.
Instead, we teach “black history”, “Latino history”, “womens’ history”, “gay history”, etc.
Missouri requires schools that issue diplomas have kids pass a test on both the U.S. and Missouri Constitutions. Since my district was a K-8 district and gave out 8th-grade diplomas, the kids had to pass the test. They’d keep taking the test until they did pass—even if it meant in summer school. They then had to pass it again when they went to high school. I had a couple of phone calls from the high school asking me to verify that they had passed it in our school.
“...nobody knows what’s in it...”
Least of all the politicians who take the oath to support and defend it.
https://www.test-guide.com/free-citizenship-practice-tests.html
If these practice tests are representative, anyone who misses even one question should be ashamed.
This is why I have more respect for the average naturalized citizen than the average high school graduate.
If only you had to pass that test to register to vote.
Which is why the big cities vote for failed policies and utterly clueless (except in the areas of lying, graft, and corruption) politicians.
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