 FistOfBono
Male, 18-29, Canada
 33 Posts
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Friday, February 03, 2012 9:32:32 PM
"I haven't been taught that knowledge" |
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 skullgrin
Male, 18-29, Eastern US
855 Posts
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Friday, February 03, 2012 9:24:22 PM
notice that it was only a small group of kids who didnt know the answers. Im sure the majority of who they asked did know the answers. You have to be careful with clips like this. They only show you what they want (just like the media) |
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 PinkRhoid
Male, 18-29, Eastern US
1149 Posts
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Friday, February 03, 2012 9:10:17 PM
These are the results of putting sports on a pedestal.That or picking what to show. Take note world.
Notes for what? Have you seen European football where a celebration kills 100s or a riot kills thousands all over a win or loss. I hardly think we put sports on as high a pedestal as that. It's because we spend more on war than education and even more-so because parents have next to nothing to do with their kids anymore and don't help and push their kids to make something of themselves. As long as they leave mommy and daddy alone they could care less if TV, PC, Console games, Lil Wayne, and disgruntled, underpayed, undersupplied teachers at understaffed, underfunded schools do all of it (or little of it) for them. Then when the kids fail out (much to their surprise of course) they blame it on everyone else or on liberals, conservatives, dems, GOP, gays, blacks, or the Nazis. So long as they don't blame themselves any. |
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PinkRhoid
Male, 18-29, Eastern US
1149 Posts
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Friday, February 03, 2012 9:02:24 PM
Liberals have taken over our education system, and this is what they've done with it -- created a bunch of ignorant, mind-numbed sheeple who will grow up to be loyal Democrats voters.
If you believe this you are drating retarded right along with the countless Democrats who say this poo about republicans. I contest that the deeper rooted problem is that crooked politicians do whatever the drat they like regardless of voters because they are too busy being good sheep arguing amongst themselves and blaming anyone and everyone who doesn't agree with them for everything that's bad. Democrat/Republican, two sides to the same drated up coin keeping stupid drats like you pointing fingers instead of fighting back. United we stand Divided we fall.
-Aasop |
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 Fatninja01
Male, 18-29, Australia
23996 Posts
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Friday, February 03, 2012 8:08:25 PM
really... i hope this is staged |
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 OldOllie
Male, 50-59, Midwest US
8751 Posts
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Friday, February 03, 2012 7:53:54 PM
Liberals have taken over our education system, and this is what they've done with it -- created a bunch of ignorant, mind-numbed sheeple who will grow up to be loyal Democrats voters. |
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 smaus
Male, 30-39, Midwest US
668 Posts
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Friday, February 03, 2012 7:49:21 PM
who cares if they vote, the electoral college will still decide who we get in office not them... |
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 EgalM
Male, 18-29, Canada
1667 Posts
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Friday, February 03, 2012 7:39:57 PM
Too many to name......LMAO |
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 ledzeppeloyd
Male, 18-29, Midwest US
2184 Posts
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Friday, February 03, 2012 7:23:43 PM
canada? o no sorry thats a state sigh |
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 eovogt
Male, 18-29, Canada
197 Posts
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Friday, February 03, 2012 7:07:14 PM
Wow, just wow. |
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 Pooptart19
Male, 18-29, Southern US
2101 Posts
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Friday, February 03, 2012 6:53:03 PM
And soon they'll vote... maybe. |
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 Draculya
Male, 30-39, Asia
6354 Posts
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Friday, February 03, 2012 6:28:35 PM
My American wife couldn't answer these questions. I guess people only know stuff that's relevant to them. If you had asked what's the largest chamber of the heart? I am sure there'd have been fewer wrong answers.
Also, it's biased reporting for laughs; they filtered for wrong answers to compile. So the students were overwhelmingly correct. Except the blonds, who seemed to feature heavily. |
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 McGovern1981
Male, 30-39, Eastern US
10257 Posts
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Friday, February 03, 2012 6:06:08 PM
These are the results of putting sports on a pedestal.That or picking what to show. Take note world. |
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 xiquiripat
Male, 18-29, Western US
2419 Posts
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Friday, February 03, 2012 5:51:26 PM
And yet, somehow, the Flynn Effect exists.
But clearly, no child left behind has been a resounding success. |
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jamie76
Male, 30-39, Western US
2249 Posts
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Friday, February 03, 2012 5:45:52 PM
we. are. F'd. |
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 Freyr108
Male, 18-29, Europe
192 Posts
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Friday, February 03, 2012 5:01:06 PM
i could only answer a few... then again, i'm not american and could give a rats ass about american politics or history |
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 Gerry1of1
Male, 50-59, Western US
25672 Posts
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Friday, February 03, 2012 4:42:41 PM
Knowledge is so overrated anyway. |
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 swoop408
Male, 18-29, Western US
1768 Posts
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Friday, February 03, 2012 4:40:32 PM
FeelTheRide, Are you naked in your pic? lol.
Back to the video -- This is an old Leno bit and extends much further from the halls of high schools.
I wouldn't put too much stock into it. I love history, but I know not everyone does. It's funny though. |
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smaus
Male, 30-39, Midwest US
668 Posts
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Friday, February 03, 2012 4:29:16 PM
ummm, bin laden, ha ha ha ha ha, sob |
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 5Cats
Male, 40-49, Canada
16975 Posts
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Friday, February 03, 2012 4:10:37 PM
Teenagers are funny! Their brains are so scattered... |
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Chancho
Male, 18-29, Western US
7 Posts
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Friday, February 03, 2012 4:03:10 PM
Pretty easy to ask the questions when your holding the paper with all the answers. |
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 piperfawn
Male, 30-39, Europe
3165 Posts
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Friday, February 03, 2012 3:56:05 PM
CrakrJak i told you in the zeitgeist post..XD |
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 cobrakiller
Male, 18-29, Midwest US
6848 Posts
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Friday, February 03, 2012 3:49:25 PM
Cajun, no, that would actually mean sitting through Leno. No thank you. |
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 FeelTheRide
Female, 18-29, Eastern US
474 Posts
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Friday, February 03, 2012 3:40:52 PM
Wait a second @NNoamfer...you don't think knowing who the VP is or knowing the war that we gained our independence was or HOW MANY STATES THERE ARE is basic knowledge for an American?!? I understand you are not an American...but these are things that are taught in American Elementary Schools.
On another note I think this can be explained pretty easily. Kids are not taught...they are shown answers to basic questions and expected to memorize them for tests. As soon as the test is over so is the retention. Schools want their students to pass so they get more funding. If schools were given funding not based on pass rate I don't think this would be as much of a problem.
I really hope I can afford to send my future children to private school. Which I honestly don't think would be much better. |
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Amurika
Male, 30-39, Eastern US
282 Posts
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Friday, February 03, 2012 3:38:04 PM
"Errm gee, I can count to facebook?" |
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