Posted on 03/12/2015 9:45:48 AM PDT by ilovesarah2012
In a recent video from PoliTech, some students from Texas Tech University in Lubbock, TX sought to find out how politically challenged our college-aged youths are. Several questions were asked to the students like, “Who won the Civil War, Who is our Vice-President, and Who did we gain our independence from?”
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I see stuff like this and I am reminded of discussions I had with our resident commie lib who was, of course Big Government this and Big Government that: If BG is so wonderful and can do everything so marvelously, why are our public schools failing students so miserably?
... BLANK STARE....
Must have a great school system in Texas.
A couple of years ago, he was sidelined during his youth football game. I went down and gave him my personalized concussion test, asking him three questions:
What happened on June 4th, 1944?
When did the Alamo fall?
What happened on November 22nd, 1963? Full disclosure, I had to give him a hint, i.e. I was in 4th grade.
Of course, he got all 3 right. I knew he was fine. His teammates looked at him in awe, "how did you know all of that?" lol
He corrected his drama teacher last year. She was talking about Elvis Presley and "Blue Suede Shoes." When she said he wrote the song, he corrected her...it was Carl Perkins. He remembered that from our visit to Sun Studio in Memphis. He stood on the spot where Elvis, Carl Perkins, and Johnny Cash recorded their first songs.
You don’t have to worry about bad lecturers in the classroom, any more. The teachers just instruct the kids to watch a YouTube video with a lecturer who has all the facts. The teacher doesn’t have to know or explain anything.
Better yet "From whom did we gain our independence?"
No need to show grammatical illiteracy when questioning college students.
The Allies captured Rome?
What did happen on June 4th 1944? A pub brawl in London?
But they know who won the Super Bowl two years ago and this year’s Grammys!
They likely queried students that matriculated from other states...lol.
Schools don't teach history like they used to. We were in a discussion about Obama's executive orders, as if this was not that big a deal. Then I asked them, anyone ever heard of the Supreme Court ruling in Korematsu v. US? Blank stares all around. It gave them a different perspective on the topic after reading about the case.
Good for you, mom!
I guess I would have still been on the bench. LOL
These questions were very basic and there is no reason college students shouldn’t know the answers. Elementary students should know the answers.
They asked who Brad Pitt was married to and every one of them got that right.
Of course you are right. That is “TV”, but to think that there are even people out there that were born in the USA and speak English as their first language that don’t know that is disturbing. And you know all those on the video think that global warming is the biggest issue of the last 400 years of the history of the United States of America.
I tried to find some levity in the answers Leno got when he went “Jay Walking” and asked young adults questions every one of them should know in order to be “qualified” to vote. I couldn’t stand the realization of who put our current crop of riff-raff into office.
The Federal Government won. The states, both North and South lost.
At least it wasn’t over when the German’s bombed Pearl Harbor...>snicker<
A number of these districts claim they don’t have the money to hire history or geography teachers, so they drop those classes from the curriculum.
My impoverished school district did that. Then the following year, lo and behold there was money — to build a new football stadium and basketball arena. Eventually, the district caved to some very unhappy taxpayers, but many of the parents — most from the free stuff crowd — really wanted the sports facilities. They figure Junior will make money as an athlete. He doesn’t have to know who won the Civil War or name all 57 states.
Well, the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor...
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Very nice, and correct, too!
1) There wasn’t a civil war it was a war of secession.
2) No one won.
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