One out of three fourth-graders can't find their state, survey finds

When I was in second grade they gave a test. I knew where the US was, but a lot of kids identified Brazil; this seems to happen on a lot of these surveys. I finally figured out why. The map in our classroom (not the one from the survey) was about halfway between eye-level for adults and eye-level for children, and the US was over most of our heads. But right there, printed across Brazil, was the word AMERICA (from "South America") and what would you think? Especially when the actual US was always where you couldn't see it.

Anyway, I don't know that this is "news" as such. I mean, we hear this sort of thing a couple of times a year. If I don't hear it for awhile, I start to get worried that maybe the tests are so bad they're afraid to tell us.