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Lonestarblue

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7. If most US citizens had to take the test for citizenship, they would flunk.
Sat Aug 20, 2022, 07:44 PM
Aug 2022

I have taken a sample test, and it is not that difficult, though it does require you to remember which quote comes from which founding document. We have a crisis of education in this country because too many people just do not want to learn. They’re content to get by with jobs at Walmart or the local fast-food joint—and I’m not knocking those jobs because they are an important part of our economy. What I’m knocking are the people who refuse to acquire better skills for higher paying jobs and then get angry because they think they don’t have what they deserve—what the world owes them.

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Most don't know all the capitals of their own states. LakeArenal Aug 2022 #1
It'll only get even worse EnergizedLib Aug 2022 #4
They want teachers who don't know where Bosnia is too. LakeArenal Aug 2022 #5
Agreed. My better half had an old collegue... paleotn Aug 2022 #12
I have to admit I don't recall all my countries anymore lambchopp59 Aug 2022 #2
Forever FB47243 Aug 2022 #3
It's taught, or at least it use to be. Certainly still is in private secondary schools.... paleotn Aug 2022 #6
If most US citizens had to take the test for citizenship, they would flunk. Lonestarblue Aug 2022 #7
WalMart? Fast Food? An incurious twit can be President of the U.S.A.! Just look at Trump. hunter Aug 2022 #16
We don't learn, we don't teach mcar Aug 2022 #8
Indeed... Wednesdays Aug 2022 #10
It is pathetic. Years ago the MSM dropped their foreign correspondents. yardwork Aug 2022 #9
In 1983 I moved to Cleveland from Seattle for my husband's job. OMGWTF Aug 2022 #11
Oh my Rebl2 Aug 2022 #14
It is stunning know how little most Americans know about the world. JanMichael Aug 2022 #13
"Who...?" is a good question given that Trump made Richard Grenell ambassador to Germany,... xocetaceans Aug 2022 #15
An old joke told by my European friends: thucythucy Aug 2022 #18
There is some hope now with the internet. It might change things for the better if the aspects of... xocetaceans Aug 2022 #19
According to David Halberstam there wasn't a single "expert" on Vietnam thucythucy Aug 2022 #17
She must not have ever been to the SE section of Chicago. former9thward Aug 2022 #20
I just found out there is a Bosnian restaurant in Tucson Kali Aug 2022 #21
It's by design. Every other country makes learning about world news ecstatic Aug 2022 #22
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