College students lack a “rudimentary grasp” of American history and government, as displayed in a civic literacy assessment recently conducted by the American Council of Trustees and Alumni.
The 35-question survey, “Losing America’s Memory 2.0,” asked more than 3,000 students from all 50 states questions about history and government, including Senate term lengths and a quote from the Gettysburg Address, according to ACTA. The survey was conducted in June by College Pulse.
This was intentional. Schools have been teaching 'social studies' instead of history and geography since the 70s. You can't demand rights you don't even know you have.
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Deleteyou nailed it!
And civics too. My civics teacher was an ex-Marine.
DeleteSurvey Q13: (no shit!) To whom is Jay-Z married? SEVENTY-FIVE percent got it correct. WTF is a question like that even included?
DeleteSurvey Q13a: WTF is Jay-Z?
DeleteKnowing the American public education (or indoctrination) system and the National Education Association (teachers union), it is no wonder that students know little or nothing about our nation's history and/or civics.
ReplyDeleteIt’s not public education.
DeleteIt’s government education. They teach what they want people to know; not what they should and need to know.
back in the late 1990's when my kid was in high school, I went to a parent -teacher meeting to ask about the "social studies" book. it had 2.5 pages on WW2 where close to 70 million died and 64 pages on the damn civil rights era ??
Deleteand nothing at all about civics at ALL. it not that the kids today are stupid. it is they have been taught bullshit and it all they know. my grandson was all about how bad CO2 was until I took his dumb ass to a greenhouse and asked them to explain to him why they had CO2 generators to make the plants grow better and faster.
they put in a lot of those stupid windmills around here. fucking worthless !
there is no way they will ever pay for themselves and why we don't install more hydro plants I never know. we get over 100 inches of rain/snow a year here.
plenty of creeks/rivers that could be used to make cheap electric power without going nuke or solar -another bullshit scam. dave in pa.
It's all by design, has been for 60 plus years.
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It's all by design, has been for 60 plus years.
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They know even less about economics. Some are getting their student loans forgiven only to rack up more debt. https://dailycaller.com/2024/08/18/student-loan-borrowers-bailed-out-biden-piling-up-mounds-of-debt/
ReplyDeleteThe stuff kids graduate without knowing what we, us older than 50, knew by the 6th grade is shocking
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College students lack a “rudimentary grasp”
ReplyDeletestop right there
DEI matriculation
All by design during the Clinton administration. I don't think the wikileaks links are working anymore, but the following comes from my archives on this question:
ReplyDeleteOn diminishment of Civics education
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/51590
From Bill Ivey to John Podesta 2016-03-02 20:39:
". . . But all policy actors have been far to content to figure out policy from the inside, making our deals inside DC, then slicing up the country demographically every few years and targeting groups with slogans, promises to change things, etc., and with small initiatives "guaranteed" to push their voting buttons. This style of governing, combined with the complete abandonment of education in history, civics, etc. means we have both anger and ignorance abroad in the land, and it's difficult to gauge how wide and deep it is. Could Trump's message peel off African-Americans in the general - absolutely, positively - and many other groups previously dependably in our camp. This is serious and can't be solved through polling or surveys or focus groups or messaging. . . "
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/3599
From Bill Ivey to John Podesta 2016-03-13 17:06:
" . . . Secretary Clinton is not an entertainer, and not a celebrity in the Trump, Kardashian mold; what can she do to offset this? I'm certain the poll-directed insiders are sure things will default to policy as soon as the conventions are over, but I think not. And as I've mentioned, we've all been quite content to demean government, drop civics and in general conspire to produce an unaware and compliant citizenry. The unawareness remains strong but compliance is obviously fading rapidly. This problem demands some serious, serious thinking - and not just poll driven, demographically-inspired messaging. . . "
It began before and continued after the Clinton administration. Things weren’t all chocolate and roses before he came to power.
Deleteit was peanut man who install the dept. of stupid ED. in 1979. between that and the damn teacher union, the kids got fucked. very few schools have a shop class anymore
Deletesame thing with writing- not taught anymore. so, just what do they "teach" really ?
Remember when Bush the Younger invited Teddy the Swimmer to help write the No Child Left Behind Act?
ReplyDeleteGood times...
WTH are you talking about with "good times"?
DeleteOr as Rush referred to it as, the No Child's Behind Left Alone Act.
DeleteAnon - I found this laying around, must have fallen out of rickn8or's post - /s
Delete"It is not that they aren't educated. It is that everything they know is wrong" Ronald Reagan.
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