77% of Oklahoma HS Students Can’t Name the First President
Author: Sterling Heltzel | Filed under: Uncategorized
…and if an article posted by Channel 9 in Oklahoma City is to be believed, apparently Arizona doesn’t do much better in this regard. Somehow I am not shocked, and yet, I am. The Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs commissioned this survey to recognize Constitution Day, and had no idea that this was going to be in store when they tested over 10,000 high school students on the citizenship test. Only 3% of them passed, while immigration data says 92% pass on the first try. The land of the free and the home of…the whopper? I’m plagiarizing Peter Griffin. PLAGIARIZING.
News9 interviewed a conservative analyst named Brandon Dutcher, who compared the state to Arizona (living here shows that it could very well be true, I mean, just go back through the archives of this site and tell me the examples I posted of my fellow “Zonis” don’t ring true. “Jefferson later said that a nation can’t expect to be ignorant and free,” Dutcher said. “It points to a real serious problem. We’re not going to remain ignorant and free.” said Dutcher, who I am plagiarizing.
Question
% of Students Who Answered Correctly
What is the supreme law of the land?
28
What do we call the first ten amendments to the Constitution?
26
What are the two parts of the U.S. Congress?
27
How many justices are there on the Supreme Court?
10
Who wrote the Declaration of Independence?
14
What ocean is on the east coast of the United States?
61
What are the two major political parities in the United States?
43
We elect a U.S. senator for how many years?
11
Who was the first President of the United States?
23
Who is in charge of the executive branch?
29
Popularity: unranked [?]
Tags: Arizona, George Washington, oklahoma, protip it was george washington, teenagers, teens are stupid, who is the first united states president?
September 18th, 2009 at 8:23 pm
What ocean is on the east coast of the United States? 61
What are the two major political parities in the United States? 43
These two stun me the most. I mean the ocean thing is just general knowledge and you’d have to live under a rock to have not heard the words Democrat and Republican ten billion times.
September 18th, 2009 at 10:44 pm
Is it a bad thing that none of this actually surprised me?
September 19th, 2009 at 2:02 am
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September 19th, 2009 at 5:54 pm
What ocean is on the east coast of the United States?
61
OHMYGOD. OH MY FUCKING GOD.
September 19th, 2009 at 10:15 pm
haha who carz about nammes of that ochan lulz