Re:Accuracy (Score 2, Insightful)

Fundamentalist religious forces are demanding the weaking of science and math education in schools because these subjects don't coincide with their mythology. No wonder U.S. students are so weak in these subjects!

Explain to me again how math and science education relates to civics education? The bottom line is that Americans have become apathetic and completely dispassionate about education period. Parents for the most part don't care enough to really take part in their children's education or to even ask them what they are learning. As a teacher I see this apathy in both parent and student alike on a daily basis and nothing is more frustrating than to know that if a parent really worked with their child that their child could be much more successful in the classroom and in their learning.

The results of this survey don't surprise me one bit, but until we as a collective society start taking education seriously again and start demanding more of the parents as well as the students, it won't change either.