Quillwitch
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- Jan 1, 2015
My kids (ages 12 and 14) are getting a public education here in the USA. I just asked them the questions posed to the Cal Tech students on the first video.
The 14-year-old got all of them right except two. She didn't know the name of vice president or who Brad Pitt married. In fact, she didn't even know who Brad Pitt is. Boy, does that make me feel old! But, she knew Snookie was on Jersey Shore. So did the 12-year-old.
The 12-year-old didn't know the year we gained our independence, who Brad Pitt is and who he married, or the name of the Vice President. But he breezed through the other questions. BTW, he was gaming online with a classmate who is 11-years-old. He knew most of the anwers as well.
This makes me suspicious of the video. I'm imagining that the majority of students knew the answers. The producer chose only the most ignorant ones to highlight . . . because there wouldn't be much of a story if college kids were actually somewhat knowledgable of history.[/QUOTE
What´s scary is that all of those kids on the video somehow made it in to college.