There's a segment on Bill O'Reilly called Watters World in which Jesse Watters asks questions of the public.
'The South Won the Civil War?' Beach Babes Bomb Watters' World Memorial Day Quiz - Fox Nation
He conducted a Memorial Day Quiz and the answers to easy questions were nothing short of distressing. It makes you wonder exactly what has happened to the American education system.
People thought we fought either France or China during the American Revolution, That Lincoln was a founding father and from the south, did not know that the Civil war and the American Revolution were different conflicts, did not know who bombed Pearl Harbor, could not name the axis powers of WWII, did not know what American president authorized the use of the atomic bombs. A young black man did not know the main cause of the Civil War. It went on and on.
While at first, this appears comical and you want to laugh. In reality, it makes you want to cry. Besides poor teachers and a left-leaning, zero-tolerance, education system increasingly crowded with items from the progressive agenda, I'm also reminded that in my time and also in the present, being good in school was not considered cool and if you tried to excel, you just might become the target of bullies.
Bad system, bad teachers, classmate hostility. That's three strikes in my book.
'The South Won the Civil War?' Beach Babes Bomb Watters' World Memorial Day Quiz - Fox Nation
He conducted a Memorial Day Quiz and the answers to easy questions were nothing short of distressing. It makes you wonder exactly what has happened to the American education system.
People thought we fought either France or China during the American Revolution, That Lincoln was a founding father and from the south, did not know that the Civil war and the American Revolution were different conflicts, did not know who bombed Pearl Harbor, could not name the axis powers of WWII, did not know what American president authorized the use of the atomic bombs. A young black man did not know the main cause of the Civil War. It went on and on.
While at first, this appears comical and you want to laugh. In reality, it makes you want to cry. Besides poor teachers and a left-leaning, zero-tolerance, education system increasingly crowded with items from the progressive agenda, I'm also reminded that in my time and also in the present, being good in school was not considered cool and if you tried to excel, you just might become the target of bullies.
Bad system, bad teachers, classmate hostility. That's three strikes in my book.
! Seriously though, the youth of the U.S. don't have a clue. I used to do programs in our local high school on the War for Southern Independence at the 9th grade level and 99.9% of those kids had no idea. I always hoped that I at least helped put some of them on the right path about that period in our history.
