Should schooling make you stupid? We think not–but that’s what it’s doing. It’s also sucking up vast amounts of money that would be better spent on almost anything else.
One thing can’t be denied: Kill public education, and leftism dies.
The system’s ruined beyond repair, and most be junked and replaced.
Waddaya mean, public education isn’t working?
We don’t need no stinkin’ history! We don’t need no stinkin’ civics!
Just think: with the biggest, costliest, most comprehensive public education system ever devised by human beings, Americans can’t pass a basic citizenship test. This ought to lead to some skepticism about the value of our schools’ “social studies” programs.
In a test given to more than 40,000 people nationwide, the Woodrow Wilson Foundation found that only one in four Americans could score a passing grade (https://woodrow.org/news/one-state-pass-us-citizenship-exam/). Vermont was the only one of all 50 states in which most people–and by “most” we mean just 53%–were able to pass the test.
The test consisted of 20 multiple-choice questions, and a passing grade was “60”: 12 out of 20 correctly answered. When I went to school, “60” was a big red F.
In our nation’s capitol–Washington, D.C., in case you went to public school, then college, and still didn’t know that’s our capitol–58% failed the test.
How about getting an A? In this test, to get an A, you had to answer correctly 90 to 100% of the questions: a minimum of 18 right answers, in case you went to public school, then college, and can’t work out the arithmetic.
No state among all 50 got more than 6% A’s. Six percent!
Quick! More money for social studies! More administrators, higher salaries, snazzier benefits–that should fix it.
I dare them to give the same test to Christian homeschoolers. I triple-dog dare them.