I'm most worried about the 7% that think Obama wrote the Declaration of Independence.
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.
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Hey! You gosta understand!...All by design!...Teachers are just building the ideal whack left voting base for future garbage air head candidates
And politicians of all stripes seem to want more $$$ for education and teachers. We’ve got to get back to basics before another generation is lost.
> We’re doomed.
No, Oklahoma is doomed. Remind me not to hire grads from Oklahoma as well.
Bananas are so nineties. They now learn on cucumber.
Lincoln? Ha! Everybody knows it was Kennedy.
I think it was Lincoln, Ford, and Mercury.
Oklahoma public high school students, eh? Well they’re young yet. Most of ‘em aren’t a day over twenty-five. Give ‘em time.
Lincoln? Ha! Everybody knows it was Kennedy.
I think it was Lincoln, Ford, and Mercury.
Whatever, Obama’s our first REAL president anyway, right?
I'm most worried about the 7% that think Obama wrote the Declaration of Independence.
***No, Oklahoma is doomed. Remind me not to hire grads from Oklahoma as well.***
Years ago, when our plant was built, people from Texas came up to staff it.
They were thrilled that the Oklahoma schools were much better than those in Texas!
Meanwhile, Oklahomans were doing their best to get their children in Arkansas schools because they were even better!
Wow. That’s pretty pathetic.
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?
can, not can’t.
Read it again.
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.
You aren’t from Oklahoma by chance, are you?
Yet even with this isolation, allowing the common person a say in government has resulted in disaster. The common man operates almost entirely on the basis of emotion, and is easy for a demagogue to to manipulate. (Case in point: President Obama.) Rule on the basis of the "will of the people" is in reality rule by the most skillful demagogue.
As for atrocities: no king or emperor in history ever shed blood on the scale of a government by the people. A king's power is limited by the oath he swears to god; in a representative government, vox populi is vox dei, and as such is without limit. Hitler was, after all, an elected leader; Stalin is still loved by millions; the rule of both Mao Zedong and the Dear Leader were and are based largely upon the willing cooperation of millions of "jes' plain folks'. Even in America, we shed innocent blood on a scale that makes the worst excesses of the cruelest czar look like Sunday school. Get back to me when you find a king who allowed fifty million innocent babies to be legally murdered during his reign.
Only reprinting the title as it was printed in the article. The mods would delete it otherwise. :)
I was just kidding but that’s some interesting info. OK is a solid red state so this is a head scratcher..
Of course they know George Washington. They just know him as the dead white slave owner on the dollar bill.
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