Are you smarter than a spring breaker?
Hordes of bikini-clad spring breakers are being mocked mercilessly online for failing to answer simple questions from the US citizenship test — with one wildly declaring that Asia borders Canada and that the aptly named Pentagon is shaped like a square.
The footage, posted online by conservative social media personality Kaitlin Bennett over the weekend, has led some jeering critics so say it’s proof that the American education system has failed, and the US Department of Education should be disbanded.
The clip, which racked up more than 150,000 views in its first 48 hours, showcased scores of college kids in swimsuits in Clearwater Beach, Fla., incorrectly firing off answers to questions about the 2nd Amendment, from whom the US declared independence and whose face is plastered on the $100 bill.
The footage was posted online by conservative social media personality Kaitlin Bennett over the weekend from Clearwater Beach, Florida. Liberty Hangout/YouTubeAsked to name a US state that borders Canada, one dumbstruck student said “Asia” while another said, “I didn’t even know Canada had a border.”
One young woman, who confessed she is majoring in elementary education, suggested the US won independence from Spain during the Revolutionary War, the video shows.
Another confidently said the Civil War was fought between the “East and West” and that the 2nd Amendment is the right to vote.
Others, meanwhile, insisted the Pentagon building was shaped like a square and that there were only seven US senators.
When one was asked how many justices are on the Supreme Court, one girl sought to clarify: “So when you say that, do you mean like the FBI?”
Reactions to the clip, posted on the Liberty Hangout YouTube page, were swift — and unforgiving — on social media.
Spring breakers party with drinks and dancing at Señor Frog’s restaurant near Fort Lauderdale’s Olas Beach Saturday. James Keivom“I’ve never seen a better video proving why the department of education needed to be abolished,” one person tweeted.
“The US Department of Education really did their job, I see,” another wrote on X.
One viewer griped, “Defund the department of education already. This is embarrassing.”
And one user raged that “public education is a dismal failure” — arguing that “every 8th grader should know this and definitely before graduating high school.”
