Posted on 09/17/2009 10:02:45 AM PDT by Nachum
And the Governor of Oklahoma is a member of the ...... (drum roll)... Democretin Party.
“President of the Continental Congress. . . .”
Yes, that was a tricky question. No wonder so many of them got tripped up.
"They're questions taken from the actual exam that you have to take to become a U.S. citizen," Dutcher said.This is why I think we should put 10 citizenship questions on every ballot. Your vote is weighed by the percent correct of the citizenship questions. If you want your vote to count, you should at least know the basics.A thousand students were given 10 questions drawn from the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services item bank. Candidates for U.S. citizenship must answer six questions correctly in order to become citizens.
About 92 percent of the people who take the citizenship test pass on their first try, according to immigration service data. However, Oklahoma students did not fare as well. Only about 3 percent of the students surveyed would have passed the citizenship test.
Where did you find that graphic?
As with everything, we need a demographic breakdown.
Would anybody venture that result?
I’m sure that less than 0.0001% of the 75% of OK kids that didn’t name Washington named John Hanson instead.
And, no, John Hanson was not the first president of the United States.
“As with everything, we need a demographic breakdown.”
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And therein lies the crux of the matter.
I am stating the OBVIOUS, am I not?
I'm going to give them a pass. At least Michael had a long career and did write "Leave Me Alone"... ;)
Lot of schools named after George, but doubt if they still have pictures of the White Racist on the walls anymore.
Okay? ....So?..How many Freepers out there are **still** using the government schools?
This is Oklahoma, folks! This is one of the most conservative states in the union and even their government schools are snake pits of ignorance! Why on earth would you think that your child's government school is somehow better!
Oh!...And if you are attempting to fill in the gaps at home, why not just homeschool? It is far, far, far easier and takes much, much, much LESS time to do it right the first time by simply homeschooling from the beginning!
When are conservatives going to wake up, get their kids out of the government school cesspools, work to shut done every government K-12 school in the nation, and set up private tuition-free alternatives?
Yes.
Do you have the graphic for the question about the first president?
Looking at the responses, I have to assume that they gave the kids choices. How else do you explain 2% saying that Michael Jackson wrote the Declaration of Independence, or that 4% think that the first 10 amendments to the Constitution are known as the Monroe Doctrine?
I just noticed that the responses to the question about the number of members of the U.S. Supreme Court add up to 100% (inclusive of “don’t know”), and the responses include 12, 10, 9, 8, 6 and 5 (all with between 5% and 21% of responses) but not, say, 7 or 50 or some other number that dumb kids might guess. So they definitely gave the kids choices for each question. And roughly 3/4 of the kids *still* couldn’t answer questions that my 3-year-old could answer.
I wonder what the % would have been had the answer been a write-in rather than multiple choice.
Wasn’t the first president the one who chopped down a cherry tree? I remember making axe cookies in grade school.
But do you know the name of the assistant coach, whose wife, Barry was boinking?
Question #7 purported to give kids two choices, but both choices were pretty much the same:
“What are the two major political parties in the United States?
A. Democrat and Republican
B. Communist and Republican”
I think that the 11% that answered “Communist and Republican” should at least get partial credit. : )
Washington High School
101 E. Kerby
Washington, OK 73093
Phone: (405) 288-2354
Washington School District
I wonder how this school did?
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