I'm also a college student and I think I agree with what you're saying for the most part... but at least for the high school I went to this article wouldn't be

I'm also a college student and I think I agree with what you're saying for the most part... but at least for the high school I went to this article wouldn't be an exaggeration. In high school, one of my classmates couldn't tell the teacher if President Bush was a Republican or Democrat. It's sort of shocking to see how little some people know or care about anything outside their immediate world. But I wonder how bad this really is? My reaction to the article is that maybe it's not as "sad" as the author of this article wants me to believe... I know personally the world of politics and government isn't too appealing to me. I don't care about reading the huge newspapers and I can't stand the evening news shows. I'm not ignorant - I can answer almost everything he asks in the article - but most of what I do know is just a side effect and not a result of some extra effort I put in to keep up on current events. Maybe I'm just naive student, but this article doesn't convince me that I'm necessarily missing out on a whole lot.