Oct 082010
Oy.
British children believe Buzz Lightyear was the first person to walk on the moon and 24’s Jack Bauer blew up the Houses of Parliament, according to research released yesterday…
One in five kids believe Toy Story’s Buzz Lightyear was the first person to set foot on the moon rather than Neil Armstrong.
And one in twenty youngsters thought Counter Terrorist Jack Bauer was the brains behind the Gunpowder plot.
But two thirds of the 6-12 year olds correctly identified malaria as Cheryl Cole’s illness and David Beckham as being the most recent player to be dropped by Fabio Capello.
Spectacular.
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Well, at least he _should_ have been the first person to walk on the Moon.
I’d take Buzz Lightyear any day of the week over Buzz Aldrin, and even Neil Armstrong has a hard time measuring up.
It would appear that British parents and teachers see no reason to have the children aware of the real world. Are celebrities more significant than any other type of person, to the average Briton?
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: Modern Britain is a hellhole.
Hey, now. I have little doubt that if similar questions were put to American kids, you’d get similar answers.
I’ve sent the link to an Internet girl friend who teaches first grade in the “worst school” in her city. I’ll ask her to ask her kids.
Oh well, At least no one can say the US has the stupidest kids on Earth anymore, we can all share in the honor! Screw wealth redistribution, lets spread the stupidity.
Hooray! Finally the surveyors are picking on the morons of a country other than America!
Scott wrote:
“Hey, now. I have little doubt that if similar questions were put to American kids, you’d get similar answers.”
In 2000/2001 while working as a Volunteer In Service To America (VISTA, part of my “step-down” program from 20+ years of government service 🙂 ) I took part in various outreach education activities with the local schools on behafe of the Ogden Nature Center. During one of our activities I found out that the school we were working with was having a “space-activities” day which included space history and a test on that history.
I volunteered to help grade some of the tests and was quite horrified to find out that the “answer-key” given to us for the test was in fact incorrect and when I brought this up to the class teacher we had to go back and re-correct all the tests.
Turns out the test and answer key were done by a part-time volunteer in her mid-40s and that none of the teachers or teachers aids had in fact gone over the test or the answer key prior to handing it out to the students! And no one had been looking at the actual answers versus the letter code on the answer key!
I’m happy to report that at the time students in grades 5-6 here in Utah at least actually correctly identified Alan Sheppard and the first American in Space and Neil Armstrong as the first man on the Moon despite the answer key having these backwards!
I’m not so happy to report that I have run into a good number of 40+ folks here in Utah who don’t KNOW who Yuri Gargarin is with a number of THEM insisting that Neil Armstrong was the first man in space….
Randy
I asked my government-school teacher friend about giving that kind of thing in her class. She said that it would be “illegal” because the Department of Education has to approve anything that happens in the classroom.
“She said that it would be “illegal” because the Department of Education has to approve anything that happens in the classroom.”
In other words, any actual education will have to be “bootlegged” into the classroom
*headdesk*