Latest Geo Gaffe

Sunday September 23rd 2007
Filed Under Current Events, Education 

The latest round of fury in the geography realm was ignited when Sherri Shepherd, the newest host on the television show “The View” admitted during a lively debate that she didn’t know if the world was flat.  Her defense of her ignorance is that she was too busy feeding her child to look into it.  Given that this is something that I would have hoped she would have learned in elementary school (were there no globes where she was educated?), this latest gaffe only adds to the debate about the quality of education in geography within the United States.  Take a moment to make sure that geography education gets the funding it deserves. 





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