Is it true that one thrid of americans can find america on a map?
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Don't even get me started on how complex it is, seeing as it changes on a whim it seems. First you have pre-school, that's right, a school to get you ready for school. Then you have Kindergarten through 6th grade for what they call elementary school. Next are 7th and 8th Grade for middle school. Finally 9th through 12th for High School. That was how I grew up. however my sister who was only two years younger then me had her 6th grade class moved to the middle school, so it just goes to show you American schools just change on a whim.EvilMaggot said:
As to the whole Freshmen and things, I think it has to do with how they use to name classes in 4 year colleges and the kids wanting to emulate them, or not who knows.
Don't worry, that specific one-third of America will be dead within the next few years, I'm betting. We younger Americans know better ^^
to an extent yes, but in the same way a kid complains about his brother, we don't mean it really, your just an easy target for light teasing. We satire ourselves a lot as well, because we're an easy target too. I mean you guys voted in bush and sum idiot decided to let brown be prime minister for more than 3 days. Both these events confuse me.For.I.Am.Mad said:
Fair play. UK/US collaboration I'm happy withLeemaster777 said:
Yeahh I know it is pretty bad. But the only decent reason I could come up with. Surely they did basic geography in school? Unless the deliberately forgot where countries were (is that even viable?) then I guess it was just old knowledge being lost. Or something :S
??? since when is geography a highschool course? are your education standards lower than those of the US? or do you live in the US and are in one of THOSE states.Sacman said:
Yeah, pointing out places on a map is not a very hard skill to learn. You should have probably been learning about Modern US history, (possibly just US history I guess, but you should have learned the first century and a half of US history in middle school) or World history where you learn that the United states was a very imperialist nation not so long ago (and to an extent today) and that Germany didn't start the first world war. You would have learned that Europeans were once the brute savages of the old world and the Han empire was the longest standing and most efficient empire of the pre-industrial world.
But of course if you took Geography you would have learned none of that stuff.
I live in California...<.<Plazmatic said:
We were required 4 years of history including geography but geography, U.S. History, World History were all required... the last one we had a choice of taking US government instead... besides I took geography in 5th grade as well...
Sacman said:
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"Geography: the study of the earth's surface"
and
"-Humanities-
Humanities are academic disciplines which study the human condition, using methods that are primarily analytic, critical, or speculative, as distinguished from the mainly empirical approaches of the natural and social sciences.
Examples of the disciplines of the humanities are ancient and modern languages, literature, law, history, philosophy, religion, and visual and performing arts (including music). Additional subjects sometimes included in the humanities are technology, anthropology, area studies, communication studies, cultural studies, and linguistics, although these are often regarded as social sciences. "
point executed.
Now go tell those dumb-ass school superintendents of your to use the right word for the right course, or don't use the word at all.
"Is it true that one thrid of americans can find america on a map?"
I'd certainly hope so. Hell, I'd wager the majority of Americans could.
I'd certainly hope so. Hell, I'd wager the majority of Americans could.
All Middle-eastern people are terrorists
All Black people like KFC
And 1/3 of Americans can't find America on a map
All Black people like KFC
And 1/3 of Americans can't find America on a map
