So much for a college education...
Judge Judy Is a Supreme Court Justice, According to Some College Grads
A new civics survey highlights the fact that (somehow) almost 10 percent of college graduates think "Judge Judy" is on the Supreme Court bench.
The ACTA
report, entitled
A Crisis in Civic Education, found that 13 percent of all respondents incorrectly selected daytime TV star Judy Sheindlin on the multiple-choice question.
The correct answer, Justice Elena Kagan, was picked by 61.6 percent of college grads and 44 percent of all those surveyed.
The survey also found a slew of other troubling answers. For instance almost half of college graduates and more than 60 percent of general respondents could not identify the term lengths for members of Congress.
Here's more...
How do Americans amend the Constitution? More than half of college graduates didn’t know. Almost 60% of college graduates failed to identify correctly a requirement for ratifying a constitutional amendment.
We live in a dangerous world—but almost 40% of college graduates didn’t know that Congress has the power to declare war.
Less than half of college graduates knew that presidential impeachments are tried before the U.S. Senate.
I love it when right wingers come up with this "colleges don't teach anything" and "aren't any good". Their solution is, obviously, to end college. You don't need it. It's not good for anything.
And they will use an article that Fox news found somewhere. Read it. Read the article. Right away, FACTS almost jump out at you. But they don't. Why not? It's easy. They are missing from the article.
Do you know that article doesn't name a single school or college? That's odd. To many in the right, they are all pretty much the same.
Only,
They aren't.
I know a college whose student are nearly all home schooled and they teach the earth was made in literally 6 days. And is only a few thousand years old.
In fact there are similar colleges all across the US that teaches magical creation. You can get a list of them off the Internet, it's pretty long.
Even funnier, many kids in college love to take survey's they can answer with crazy answer. When I was in college 40 years ago, I rememer one that asked who the SOS was and I answered "Tonto". Whose Tonto?
When it comes to college kids, you take it on faith they are answering honestly. But that's only on faith.
You know, if Republicans believed Obama did a terrible job after Katrina, then I think we've found who believes Judge Judy is a Supreme Court Judge.