How Did These People Get Into College?

[shipperx]

Seriously, how did these people get into college?  And should we side-eye more psychology majors?

(And, yes, there are people this stupid.  To this day I remember going to see that terrible Mel Gibson/Heath Ledger movie "The Patriot," where prior to the trailers I was eavesdropping on a father and his two mid-teen daughters sitting behind me.  The conversation went like this:

Daughter 1:  What's this movie supposed to be about?
Father: The revolutionary war.
Daughter 1: What war is that?  Who fought in it?
Daughter 2: The North and South.

Picture me rolling my eyes...)

Examples of same stupidity (Hmm... which bothers me more, the ones that don't know what the Civil War was, or the ones who think the Confederacy won?)

Comments

[brunettepet.livejournal.com]

That's horrifying. Everyone knowing "The Jersey Shore" and Angelina Jolie is just icing on the stupidity cake,

[shapinglight]

Oh dear!

My kids know the answers to those questions (except the Jersey Shore one probably, they'd think it meant Jersey the island between England and France) and they don't even live on the same continent.

[petzipellepingo.livejournal.com]

"nods"

bookishwench who is professor was just posting something similar from her students the other day. It's just...pathetic and scary.

[molliemole.livejournal.com]

It's unbelievable that college students (COLLEGE STUDENTS!!!) could be that ignorant. And they all seemed to find their own ignorance amusing.

[wildrider.livejournal.com]

Those were questions I knew the answer to before I was out of grade school! (Now, to be fair, I was in 6th grade in 1976, which a big year for teaching kids about American History...)

[queenofattolia.livejournal.com]

Made it halfway through. The jolly stupidity - it just doesn't burn, it lays waste.

Weeping now. There is no future except for Aldous Huxley's future.