If they ever get around to doing that sequel for Idiocracy, it could be suggested to the producers to set up a casting call in our 46th state, the Sooner State, Oklahoma.
75 Percent of Oklahoma High School Students Can't Name the First President of the U.S.
Only one in four Oklahoma public high school students can name the first President of the United States, according to a survey released today.
The survey was commissioned by the Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs in observance of Constitution Day on Thursday.
[snip]
"They're questions taken from the actual exam that you have to take to become a U.S. citizen," Dutcher said.
[snip]
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.
Holy empty schoolbags, Batman!
How can this be?
It's almost as if they have intentionally, with great purpose, avoided anything -- books, magazines, television, radio, the Internet -- that would remotely, incidentally, educate themselves.
I mean, even the Scottish students, in not doing well in exams, winged it:
WIKIPEDIA and other online research sources were yesterday blamed for Scotland's falling exam pass rates.
The Scottish Parent Teacher Council (SPTC) said pupils are turning to websites and internet resources that contain inaccurate or deliberately misleading information before passing it off as their own work.
The group singled out online encyclopedia Wikipedia, which allows entries to be logged or updated by anyone and is not verified by researchers, as the main source of information
I might be tempted to suggest that, "Hey, Oklahoma students, get a glove, get in the game!" -- but I fear that may cause distress, as they get stumped on what part of the anatomy to put the glove on.
If they did bring Idiocracy to Oklahoma, they would have to import Miss Teen USA from South Carolina to take the lead role, played by Luke Wilson.
On the upside, it could be a windfall for the state in having the most Stella, or Darwin, Award winners, for years to come.
You can go here to read more of the Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs Study.
(Cross-posted at The Garlic.)
No comments:
Post a Comment