This School Counselor Shared The Alarming “Lack Of Basic Knowledge” Among Their High School Students

“I am a football coach and currently we are doing our off-season strength and conditioning. Today, a freshman said he wanted chalk before he could do a lift (he didn’t need chalk), and I, trying to be funny, said, ‘Do you think gladiators had chalk?’ And he said, ‘What is a gladiator?’

I taught human Geography last year, and most high school students didn’t know the continents or oceans. A large percentage of them couldn’t say what continent they lived in, didn’t know the difference between a state, country, continent, etc. (This is like 2nd grade stuff.)

I had a test that was on their Chromebook, and the access code to get into the test was the word ‘globe.’ I would say 25% of my kids couldn’t get into the test because they couldn’t spell the word ‘globe.'”

—AUSpartan37