Survey: Young Lack Geography Skills

[amk714]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tm...8&u=/ap/20021120/ap_on_re_us/geography_quiz_1

Ask young people to pick out Iraq on a map of the Middle East, and only 13 percent can locate it — despite a barrage of headlines and broadcast reports about a possible war against Saddam Hussein.

I'll let you read the rest. Pathetic, isn't it? 🙁

 

[shark]

That's ok....as long as they have high self-esteem,it's ok to be dumbasses.

 

[ForgottenTcklr]

Well,

Teachers just aren't as hard on kids as they used to be. That's how these kids learned, and it's seeming to be the only way!