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Globalization folks...no recall of American History.
Global people living in a global world working with global peers and allegiance to no one.
Rote teaching was deemed ineffective. This is the product of that.
I grew up with rote teaching. I can go back to Columbus and the various explorers as well as Generals in the Civil War.
Sherman's march for one. Memorizing and rote teaching is what keeps those facts in my mind.
This is not a Texas issue at all. This is a US issue and this is what public education has begot.
This is not so much about Texas, Republicans, or even about these kids. This is about an utterly failed public education system.
As an 18-yr-old I was not bright. I never liked history until I got out of school. But even I would have been able to answer who won the civil war, who the VP was, etc.
This is a demonstration of an utterly failed public education system, which is run lock, stock, and barrel by liberals and public sector unions, even in Texas.
Is it just me or did anyone notice the OP is from LA and saying this? I seem to recall more than one Jay Leno people on the streets segment where they said equally stupid things. Like the others said, it's not a Texas problem. It's bigger than that.
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