I'm proctoring an SAT practice exam right now for my parttime tutoring job. I just finished grading my students' essays. Here are some of the things these high school juniors apparently believe, judging by the examples they provided in their essays:
1. Romeo and Juliet were not allowed to get married to each other, and so to punish their families they killed each other.
2. There is a European nation. Just one (and no, that wasn't just the kid leaving off a critical s in his rush to finish the essay, he repeated the phrase "the nation of Europe" many times).
3. Martin Luther King, Jr. Gave his "I Have a Dream" speech during the Civil War.
4. Barack Obama faces racism due to his race. (As opposed to racism based on his...yeah.)
5. "100 years ago people used to wear colorful clothing in America known as the "hippies" era. They danced to jazz and rebelled against social norms." (Wrong, and then wrong again.Also, oh my god, sentence structure!)
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