America Needs Some Education
Miss Colorado may have won the coveted Miss Teen USA crown, but it’s Miss South Carolina who won our hearts. Consider this eye-opening analysis on the state of our union’s school system.
Transcript after the jump:
Q: Recent polls have shown 1/5 of American’s [sic] can’t locate America on a world map. Why do you think this is?
Miss South Carolina: I personally believe that, U.S. Americans are unable to do so, because some… people out there in our nation that don’t have maps, and I believe that our education, like such, as in South Africa and Iraq, everywhere like such as, and I believe that they should… our education over here in the U.S., should help the U.S., er, should help South Africa and should help the Iraq and the Asian countries so we will be able to build up our future.., for our…
Announcer: Thank you very much South Carolina
The poor, poor girl…
What’s even more telling of the nation’s educational system is the inappropriate use of an apostrophe in the transcript (“American’s”) recounting Miss South Carolina’s stupidity.
…or the word “transcript” itself being misspelled.
i work up to this news story on the tv… i just wanted to go back to bed…
She is very smart coz she is very pretty and stuff.
Oh my god- that was so awesome.
I can be like pretty and stuff or I can be like smart and stuff but I can’t be like pretty and stuff and like smart and stuff all like at the same time and stuff.
Like, um, what’s a map and stuff?????
I am so excited to know that this young woman is the face of teen America. It sends a message of hope to the nation. It communicates to the world that we are “not going to take it anymore,” look at the caliber of teen our educations system is offering to the world. You go dumb-girl!