75% of Oklahoma high school students don't know the first president!

[Mysterious F.]

I, for one, think that this is just pathetic.

Don't get me wrong, most high school students don't know very much about our country's history, or world history, for that matter. Still, most 5th graders know who was the first president, and high school students don't. How sad.

[Gamefreak]

Jon Stewart is not amused.

In all seriousness, it sickens me that people work so hard to make it into this country while this nation's own children barely put any effort at all into making it through high school.

[Mysterious F.]

It's not any one person's fault, it's the fault of all parents, students, teachers, lawmakers/lawenforcers, and everyone else involved for not taking education seriously. It is, like you said, quite disgusting. If you don't even know that George Washington was the first president of the United States, you shouldn't even be admitted into high school.

[DW]

You've got to factor in how many kids probably got it wrong on purpose or just didn't take it.

[Mysterious F.]

If they got it wrong on purpose, they don't take life seriously enough, and the same could be said for those who didn't take it.

[Keaton]

If they got it wrong on purpose, they don't take life seriously enough, and the same could be said for those who didn't take it.

Why should life be taken so seriously, man?  There's a lot of stress during High School as-is, so I for one would take every opportunity to screw around that I could get, especially one so deliciously statistic-skewing as this.

[Mysterious F.]

Those who fail to take life seriously enough usually don't understand the consequences their actions can cause.

[Keaton]

That's not true and I'm sure you know it.

[Mysterious F.]

So you mean to say that, let's just say, if Oklahomah decides to seriously change its education process, eliminating or seriously limiting sports, clubs, after-school activities, etc. (aka the fun stuff) because of such terrible results on that poll, all the students knew that it would happen?

[Keaton]

So you mean to say that, let's just say, if Oklahomah decides to seriously change its education process, eliminating or seriously limiting sports, clubs, after-school activities, etc. (aka the fun stuff) because of such terrible results on that poll, all the students knew that it would happen?

Although I don't see why they would eliminate such things in lieu of simply imposing stricter benchmark testing, I would say that were such an outcome plausible it would be at the very least foreseeable.

[DW]

Not to mention that they aren't going to change their education in the slightest because of that test, and it really has no impact on the world.

[Mysterious F.]

You never know, Shika. I, for one, think that if only 3% of all high school students in my state could pass a citizenship test, then something surely must be done.

[Keaton]

Your views, however, are radically different from 99% of the people in America.  That's just the honest truth.

[Mysterious F.]

Your views, however, are radically different from 99% of the people in America.  That's just the honest truth.

So your saying that 99% of America thinks stupidity is okay as a form of redemption? Thanks, that makes me feel better about this country.

[DW]

99% of America IS the stupidity, Whocares.