Where Is Louisiana? Many Have No Idea.

Of course this is bad, but I’d be curious to what the percentages were 10, 20, 30, 50 years ago. Its entirely possible that these percentages were always the same, or to paraphrase, there will always be a % of dumb or ingnorant people in this country.

With this apparent reduction in the capacity for higher learnin’, maybe Uncle Dave’s earlier story about reduced teen fertility is the good news of the day

Schools seem more fixated on political correctness and not offending any minority group, then actually teaching anything.

“So, what do we do about the state of education in America?”

Isn’t that the state above South Dakota?

Edumacation be good in the USA.
For example we can all answer important questions like:
a) Name the two nations that the USA invaded because of their proven roles in the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
b) If we export 50 middle class jobs to China and India, and that results in lower costs for US corporations, how many equivalent pay Walmart jobs will that produce to replace the exported jobs?
c) Now for the hard math:
If you have a political system with two dominant parties, and the President was elected by a 52 – 48 margin, what would the margin be if the president enjoys a 32% approval rate overall, with the approval rate within the winning party being 70%. If you can’t do math, then lets simplify the question… does a 52% margin constitute a “mandate”?

So my U.S.-born wife was touring Europe with a Canadian friend she met along the way when the pair encountered another U.S.-born person. The third person learned there was a Canadian among them, and quickly asked, “Where is the state of Canada?”

Only 25,000 illegal immigrants? Maybe we can send them some of ours.

My Dad and Mom said that when they were in high school, people didn’t know places outside the U.S., but knew there own country pretty well. Back then they taught geography and you had to learn the states and their capitals. You also had to know where the big rivers were as well.

#17, Bruce, I have been to New Brunswick many times and know several people quite well from there. Even the people with French as a first language are quite well spoken in English. I would have to say that the test must be flawed if 100% of the students failed it. So I checked it out and couldn’t find ANY reference to a test in English where not one student had a good grasp of English writing

Second if you would look on a map, New Brunswick is North-East of Maine, not North. That, though, is subjective, the same as the quality of English writing is subjective.