This....isn't a good sign.

[LIMERICKFILE]

http://www.cnn.com/2004/EDUCATION/08/09/private.school.invest.ap/index.html

Lockyer said the curriculum consisted of a slim workbook riddled with errors, including:


-The United States has 53 states but the "flag has not yet been updated to reflect the addition of the last three states" -- Hawaii, Alaska and Puerto Rico.


-World War II began in 1938 and ended in 1942.


-There are two houses of Congress -- the Senate and the House, and "one is for Democrats and the other is for the Republicans, respectively."

[EN[i]GMA]

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[ASsman]

WAhahah, like trailer parks aren't dumb enough.

[mcaismyhero]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! Oh my god that is the funniest thing I have ever seen. Who found this crap? And who in the fuck is dumb enough to go along with it? These kids are in high school, aren't they?

[LIMERICKFILE]

Immigrants who don't know better would go along with it, none the wiser.

[ASsman]

Thats pretty much everyone, and if they ever saw a map and would put 2 and 2 together. Or "School House Rock", jeez. But as for me not exactly an immigrant but son of, I've always questioned what I was taught, if it didn't make sense or wasn't explained thoroughly enough. But yes that is bad, Cuban education systems > US.

[LIMERICKFILE]

Thats pretty much everyone, and if they ever saw a map and would put 2 and 2 together. Or "School House Rock", jeez. But as for me not exactly an immigrant but son of, I've always questioned what I was taught, if it didn't make sense or wasn't explained thoroughly enough. But yes that is bad, Cuban education systems > US.

Well yes, i think it's always better for us to question what we're told, simply because someone had to write the books, and when learning about American history especially, party favoring tends to affect what makes it into the books and what doesn't. I don't think being an immigrant or directly related to an immigrant warrants a questioning, but simply the nature of what we are taught and (at least in my experience) the only partial explanation of many important aspects of world history would cause anyone to question what they are being told.

For example....for all the years of history that we are required to take in junior high and high school......i couldn't have told you anything about Sudan, Iran, Iraq, Israel, a majority of Africa, most of Asia, and Europe was touched upon as long as it was a major country (France, Germany, Ireland, Scotland, etc.) So the mentality that the United States was the only country worth knowing about was basically pushed the entire time I was in high school. 9/11 during my senior year didn't help that much either in causing people to want to learn about other countries.

[LIMERICKFILE]

Have you ever considered that there isn't enough time for a thorough explanation on every part of our history. I don't think it's possible no matter how much funding, teachers, time invested for a public school (or any school for that matter) to provide a complete education. There will always be deficiencies.

Despite that, it's a shame the immigrants are tricked into paying for a faulty diploma.

My point wasn't the partial explanation that we get of our own history. We get plenty of that. I for one took one year of World History, one year of US history, and one year of Government in high school, which was basically US history again, only it was focusing on the functioning of governmental bodies through history.

My point was that we get such a partial explanation of WORLD history. There isn't just a couple holes in the common high schooler's world history knowledge, many times there is a complete lack of any actual knowledge when it comes to 90% of the other countries in the world outside of the US. Any kid that wants to learn more about France, or China, or Japan, or South Africa, or Chile, or Mexico, or any of the other countries in the world aside from the US, is many times given a half-assed paragraph bio of it in high school, and must take it upon themselves to learn about it further, which I can assume would just lead most high schoolers to say "Fuck it."

And now we've reached the point where we can't even teach immigrants about our OWN country correctly, let alone the other countries in the world. So yeah, it's a shame that they're paying for the faulty diploma, but it's more of a shame that there are people out there willing to give them the faulty diploma, teach them the facts that are completely wrong, and that there are immigrants walking around thinking things like "There are two houses of Congress -- the Senate and the House, and "one is for Democrats and the other is for the Republicans, respectively"" and other bullshit. I mean, if it was so easy for these guys to get away with shit, can you even think that your own teachers didn't throw in a little bit of their two cents along the way, maybe skewed a couple of the facts about presidents they didn't agree with, regardless of how respectful your school was?

I dunno.....just going on and on and on.......

[EN[i]GMA]

I'm just glad I had a kick-ass American History teacher. She knows more about history than I thought possible for high school teacher.

[Funkaloyd]

Why did they do that? If you're going to pull a scam, then surely drawing attention to it in this way isn't a good idea. Maybe it's run by xenophobes, who are interested in ripping off immigrants in more ways than one?

And how are consumers supposed to protect themselves if they don't have the name of the business in question?

[LIMERICKFILE]

And how are consumers supposed to protect themselves if they don't have the name of the business in question?

Good call, i dunno, but hopefully the business won't exist for much longer.