On Inside Edition the introduction of an interesting answer of Miss Teen South Carolina on Why 1/5 of children can't find the U.S. on a world map was advertised, so of course I have to hear this. Well I missed putting together my drawers and shelf in my closet, so I plug into my internet's MSN.COM page and it was a big news item. If you didn't watch the Miss Teen USA pageant Friday night (I was at work), it goes something like this.
Question: Why is it that 1/5 of kids in America can't find the US on a world map. Answer: Many people don't have maps and went on saying that we need to help children in South Africa and Iraq with their education and help them find the United States on a map.
I probably would have said something like kids sleep through history and geography thinking it's not important, or say 1/5 of school children are too young to take geography class or better yet, because that question is not on the mandatory state tests, or they are use to political maps with the 50 states divided and can't identify the US on a elevation map without state and country borders.
What would your answer be? Post later. Bye!
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