If everyone had to take a citizenship test when they were eighteen, we would quickly eradicate idiots from the country, amirite?

+267 If everyone had to take a citizenship test when they were eighteen, we would quickly eradicate idiots from the country, amirite?

by Anonymous 13 years ago

where would they go?

by Anonymous 13 years ago

not sure. I suppose it wouldn't work for ALL countries. Two or three.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

we could have an idiot island!

by Anonymous 13 years ago

absolutely.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

positootley

by Anonymous 13 years ago

However, another factor needs to be considered. Think about it. How great were you at history? How great were you at English? Or math? Or Science? What if you're great at English or Math, but you have trouble with history and remembering dates? The new citizenship test is memorizing history. The thirteen colonies, the meanings of the stripes, numbers of stars. When the civil war started, when the civil war ended. The revolutionary war. Independence. How well do you know your early history? I've even seen a version of the citizenship test that asked for department names of the government. A majority of Americans, a large majority don't know their representative. Do you? It's on the test. Your president. Your vice president. Your secretary of state. Your two state senators. Your governor. Your lt governor. How much do you know about American politics? You kind of have to know that too. How about the early Federalist parties? The Wang parties? These were the big parties before the Gr...

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Maybe they could change it to be like an IQ test, or some kind of common sense test, or at least a test on something that might be a bit more useful in daily life than American government history from ages ago.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

you need an iq test to stay here cuz if youre stupid youre getting kicked out??

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Well it doesn't make sense that people should know history to have to stay, either. :P

by Anonymous 13 years ago

We would have to kick out almost everyone in the country...I tutor people on the citizenship test, it's hard. If I didn't take AP government in high school I wouldn't know a lot of the answers.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Society needs stupid people to do all the crappy jobs. If everyone went to college, who would be flipping the burgers?

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I think you should just have to take some kind of test to vote.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

THAT is a good idea.

by Anonymous 13 years ago