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Me#1You#10
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 Posted: Thu Sep 17, 2009 1:42 pm Post subject: 75% of OK HS Students...Can't Name First Pres. |
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Good Lord. 
This should suggest a rather obvious reality to the parents of America's school children. The parent's collective ability to add 2 + 2, however, may be less likely to produce a correct response than their children's grasp of basic American history...
| Quote: | 75 Percent of Oklahoma High School Students Can't Name the First President of the U.S.
Oklahoma Students Score Low on Basic Civic Questions
News9.com
Sep 16, 2009
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.
The Oklahoma City-based think tank enlisted national research firm, Strategic Vision, to access students' basic civic knowledge.
"They're questions taken from the actual exam that you have to take to become a U.S. citizen," Dutcher said.
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.
Dutcher said this is not just a problem in Oklahoma. He said Arizona had similar results, which left him concerned for the entire country.
"Jefferson later said that a nation can't expect to be ignorant and free," Dutcher said. "It points to a real serious problem. We're not going to remain ignorant and free."
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LewWaters
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They might not be able to tell you the name of the first U.S. President, but I bet they can list all of the alleged inhumanties of Americans worldwide.
Schools should be places of education, not social engineering and indoctrination.
My wife is going back to school at the local community college and we stopped in at the bookstore a couple days ago for her books. I was stunned to see an array of Obama books at the checkout, including a book of cut-out paper dolls.
Paper dolls for college kids?
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TEWSPilot
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| Lew, are you sure that wasn't "do it yourself" toilet paper? They probably get 3 hours credit for completing each "project". |
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