Pres. Obama and Nobel Peace Prize

[Aniki]

Are you saying only 26 percent knew who was the first president? Wow, that one the easiest questions.

[MMM]

Originally Posted by Aniki

Are you saying only 26 percent knew who was the first president? Wow, that one the easiest questions.

26% of Arizona high school students. This is not 26% of all Americans.

Most AZ high school students would fail US citizenship test | www.azstarnet.com ®

[Aniki]

I only answered 5, one more and I would've pasted the citizen test if I picked those questions.

[Sinestra]

Originally Posted by Aniki

Are you saying only 26 percent knew who was the first president? Wow, that one the easiest questions.

MMM is right sorry for the confusion SSJup81 and I were talking about an incident that happen a while ago where the Arizona students were tested and these were the results. But if you research a little you can find similar trends in other parts of the country.

i laughed when slightly higher that 50% answered which body of water is off the East coast of the US. Seriously it should be higher much higher.

[MMM]

Originally Posted by samurai007

Yes, my experiences are my own, as are yours. But mine were very different from what you're describing. I had many teachers who voiced their political views in class, even when it wasn't the subject of the class at all... for instance, my computer science teacher was one of the worst, taking anywhere from 5 to 30 minutes(!) each day of a 50 minute class to rant about the latest politics... needless to say, nobody learned a lot about computers in that class. Classes in the liberal arts, especially history, politics, literature, etc had the cover of "this is related to what the class is supposed to be about" and so would spend entire days discussing the teachers' views on politics and issues. And not in a "here's a balanced view of what the left and right each believe", presented in such a non-biased way that the teacher's own views were unknown. In fact, in one Poli-Sci class, the teacher would only give the left-wing view and then would call on me, the only admitted conservative in the class, for the "Republican response". He and I literally had hour long debates in class sometimes! Luckily, most of the teachers I had stopped short of lowering the grade of a conservative (there there were 1 or 2 that did, and I learned to keep my mouth shut in those classes.)

That goes to show what kind of different experiences happen in different parts of the country. Where I live this would have been a local news-worthy scandal if there was even a notion that a students grades were affected by political views. A couple local football coaches were just reprimanded for basically getting in an altercation at a bus stop after a pro hockey game that had nothing to do with the school on a weekend when no students were around. No one was arrested, but still one was fired and another demoted.

[Aniki]

Originally Posted by Sinestra

i laughed when slightly higher that 50% answered which body of water is off the East coast of the US. Seriously it should be higher much higher.

I never thought they'd put such easy question in the test. I always thought on the U.S citizenship test you gotta write stuff like the names of all U.S. presidents in chronological order.

[Sinestra]

Originally Posted by Aniki

I never thought they'd put such easy question in the test. I always thought on the U.S citizenship test you gotta write stuff like the names of all U.S. presidents in chronological order.

No its actually pretty easy you dont have remember dates or anything. What i dont like is for those people taking the citizenship test that dont speak or read English a translator is provided for them. That i dont agree with at all if you want to live here and be citizen its should a requirement to learn the language. I would never go live in another country without learning their native language first. oh well but the test itself is pretty easy as you can see.

[noodle]

Originally Posted by Sinestra

No its actually pretty easy you dont have remember dates or anything. What i dont like is for those people taking the citizenship test that dont speak or read English a translator is provided for them. That i dont agree with at all if you want to live here and be citizen its should a requirement to learn the language. I would never go live in another country without learning their native language first. oh well but the test itself is pretty easy as you can see.

That would be acceptable if the US had an official language. It doesn't have one!

[Sinestra]

Originally Posted by noodle

That would be acceptable if the US had an official language. It doesn't have one!

which is true however you are taking a taste to become a citizen of a country and instead of reading the test yourself a translator is doing it for you i disagree with it on every level. You are right though if the US would declare an official language thing might change.

[IamKira]

Originally Posted by Aniki

I never thought they'd put such easy question in the test. I always thought on the U.S citizenship test you gotta write stuff like the names of all U.S. presidents in chronological order.

even that would be no big deal.. in second grade we had to memorize them all... can't do it now, but there was a girl i liked in the class, so i managed to be the second to learn them all.. second to her that is.