Only 71% Americans can locate Pacific Ocean on a map

Forbes ^ | May 12, 2003 Issue | Paul Recer

[FITZ]

Of course, homeschooling our children

My kids are in public school and know geography pretty well ---partly because they learn map reading on family trips to different states. If these kids don't know where the Pacific Ocean is, it's very doubtful their parents know where it is ---also these kids are the kids likely to have children quite soon themselves ----homeschooling only works in the families whose kids would do okay either with homeschool or public school. I can't imagine what homeschooling would do these kids.

[Alberta's Child]

LOL.

[JasonC]

See the link in post #33. The one I was replying to with my previous comment.

[texas booster]

Thanks. I'll post results next week from my experiments.

Since I am traveling with a bus load of Jr. High kids this weekend, I might pull this out and test them. All church kids, half from urban south Dallas, half from suburbs.

Might have interesting results.

[mylife]

So adolecsents are self centered and ingnorant.
Like that is news!!
I am shocked to hear that they are more interested in what Suzie Creamcheese did at the party last night than the geographical location of Bulgaria!!Shocked!! Shocked!! I Tell You!

[holdmuhbeer]

Thats a higher percentage than I thought.