Poll Shows Many Can’t Find Louisiana on Map

Posted May 2, 2006, 1:59 p.m.

Despite the wall-to-wall coverage of the damage from Hurricane Katrina, nearly one-third of young Americans recently polled couldn’t locate Louisiana on a map and nearly half were unable to identify Mississippi.Americans between the ages of 18 and 24 fared even worse with foreign locations: six in 10 couldn’t find Iraq, according to a Roper poll conducted for National Geographic.

Now that public schools spend all their time teaching students not to criticize authority, not to discuss controversial issues, and not to wear kilts, is it any wonder that they have a hard time finding a few free minutes to teach basic geography?

At what point will we finally wake up and realize that public education is in desperate need of major reform?

Poll Shows Many Can’t Find Louisiana on Map (AP via Yahoo.com [no longer available]).

Scott Bradford is a writer and technologist who has been putting his opinions online since 1995. He believes in three inviolable human rights: life, liberty, and property. He is a Catholic Christian who worships the trinitarian God described in the Nicene Creed. Scott is a husband, nerd, pet lover, and AMC/Jeep enthusiast with a B.S. degree in public administration from George Mason University.

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