I laughed right out loud when I saw this.
One of the black kids I interviewed for an undergraduate slot at Cornell last year told me he wanted to study architecture.
He couldn't identify a favorite building. He couldn't name an architectural style. He couldn't name a favorite architect.
His cluelessness was astonishing. He wouldn't have lasted one week on a serious college campus.
And the NEA clonetroopers who inhabit the classrooms of America aren't doing a damned thing to help change this! If there is a problem, then you would think that the teachers would go out of their way to try to help these kids either move forward toward a goal of attending college, or identify what problems exist so that they can be eradicated. Unfortunately, most of the clonetroopers are only interested in their next paycheck and whatever they can do outside of helping their students. They would rather the students fend for themselves.
And woe unto them when/if they end up with me as one of their parents. They thought life was "bad" before...[lol]