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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm a French person in her 40s, never got an American history lesson in school, and got 5/5!

OK, I'll tell you how: my kids love Youtube history channels like Oversimplified and AP Crash Course history. Plus we recently visited Colonial Williamsburg and I remember a guide saying the right to a jury was in your Constitution.

So proud of myself :-)[/quote]
DH is from the UK, and he studied a bit to take his citizenship test. He probably knows more about the Constitution than most Americans.

It's not just the school aged kids, OP.  Most adults don't know US history, either.

https://citizensandscholars.org/resource/national-survey-finds-just-1-in-3-americans-would-pass-citizenship-test/

I recall watching, I think Jay Leno's show, where they went out onto the streets and asked random people simple US history questions, like when was WWII or the Vietnam war. The answers were sadly funny.

It doesn't surprise me, though.   I mean.. with all the 50% rule, test retakes, kids being passed up even when they fail.. this kind of thing was bound to happen.[/quote]

SO how does that explain adults' ignorance?   I think disrupted education due to pandemic (and all the absences since) probably plays a bigger role.  Many other countries who do testing are seeing similar declines--even ones that kept schools more open.[/quote]

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