INNOCENT !
Here is the actual answer on YouTube.com:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHmi4YKULQE
How’s THAT for a reason to homeschool?
INNOCENT !
That said, I'd be willing to tutor her---for free! :-P
This is a non-issue.
She is a kid who did better under scrutiny than most kids her age.
She needs our kindness. Leave her alone. Her critics have been so cruel.
One fifth of Americans? Lower than I expected but I’m sure that’s because the older people got an education in school. I suspect a lot more than one fifth of more recent high school graduates are as dumb as Miss Teen South Carolina. Her excuse, of course, is that she has been well indoctrinated in politically correct dogma without being exposed to an education.
I have had the argument with several online people about whether Americans are right to call themselves Americans. Her use of “U.S. Americans” has been widely criticized, but that part of her answer was poltiically correct. We are apparently very arrogant to call ourselves Americans when there are other courntries in North and South America who also have a claim to the name American. Nevermind that Canadians like to be called Canadians and Mexicans are fine with Mexicans, etc. And never mind that “United States-an” doesn’t really work. We use the title “American” to be mean and arrogant, apparently.
I’ve heard dumber statements out of Democrats in Congress.
We don't know anything except the way to the mall, how to us an ipod and vote Democrat. Our schools have been successful, given their mission. Perhaps teaching Ebonics would be a step up. At least they could practice that while listening to their rap music.
At least I can say my daughter and her friends are better off. They are finishing college, working or in the service. However, when I showed the video to my daughter, she said, "Oh my gawd, that is just like [name deleted]!"
Geez when I was a kid they handed out tracing paper and cool coloring pencils and told us to make maps. Maps of states, regions, continents, the town, the playground, treasure maps, pirate maps, maps of the moon, maps of imaginary places.
I still know where stuff is (although some names have changed) and still know how to read a map.
And it was loads of fun, sigh. Schools are prisoner re-education camps now.
I wonder what the answer would have been if she was asked “Can YOU locate America on a map?”
I suspect she will do just fine as long as she has “walking around sense”.
That is all she needs.
This young lady makes the case for just look good and keep your mouth shut!
I knew a young guy I worked with that actually asked me if Wyoming was a state. Whoa, that was unreal.
I can’t believe parents send kids to public schools.
Just imagine! 20,000,000 Mexicans have been able to locate the United States even without a map.
She said the girl didn't have a clue about the subject, and was just making up stuff to "answer" the question. One of the visuals was a repeated raising of one shoulder (shrug), as if to say, "I don't know."
I know a girl who graduated first in her high school class (private catholic) who thought Alaska was an island.
Well judges, public schools suck and as a result no less than a fifth of this country is dumb as a bag of hammers.
Yeah, that'll fly.
ML/NJ
Duh, i seez her probelm nows. Sheds a blund.