Only one in three Americans can name the 3 branches of the Federal government

[richardhutnik]

NintendoPie said:

Jay520 said:

Mr Khan said:
This is what you get when you cut educational funding (or redirect funds to the football team :/)

More like when the students don't give a shit. I went to some of the worst schools in my America, yet facts as simple as this was always common knowledge for decent students.

That's what I was going to say.

The student's have to give a darn first before anything else.

If there is wide scale students not giving a damn, then there are things systemically wrong with a country.  It could be the whole gospel of self-esteem taught, kids growing up in broken homes, or something else at the root of the problems.  But there is something going on wrong, wide scale.

In my case, I did try to substitute teach for a bit in a city school district near me.  Was one of the worst experience I had.  I thought the kindergardners were terrible.  Sheesh, at least I got them to sit quiet.  It was the high schoolers who were a big problem.