Another Department of Edumacation success story!
http://www.news9.com/global/story.asp?s=11141949
Only one in four Oklahoma public high school students can name the first President of the United States, according to a survey released today.
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A thousand students were given 10 questions drawn from the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services item bank. Candidates for U.S. citizenship must answer six questions correctly in order to become citizens.
About 92 percent of the people who take the citizenship test pass on their first try, according to immigration service data. However, Oklahoma students did not fare as well. Only about 3 percent of the students surveyed would have passed the citizenship test.
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We have to make sure none of our little snowflakes ever experience anything negative don’t you know. Well that is until the harsh reality of the adult world crushes them anyway. Hey, what’s a few more people on welfare anyway, it’s all free.
When the results of a test don’t matter for a grade or diploma certification, most high school students I’ve ever known lie through their teeth just to get ridiculous headlines like these. God knows I did back then. Irrelevant testing is just a waste of everyone’s time.
The really disgusting part of this story is that only 6 questions need to be answered correctly for a citizenship-applicant to be granted citizenship, and that the test is only 10 questions long. Those who want citizenship should have to take a full-semester civics course (again, like most HS students are mandated to by their states) and pass – with an A. A similar requirement for a class in US history (names/dates/places only; we don’t need to politicize it in any direction) wouldn’t be a bad idea either.
> A similar requirement for a class in US history… wouldn’t be a bad idea either.
With proof of a passing grade required before voting.