All of this is part of the reason my children are home-schooled. If the f-ing teacher can't tell the students where the Yucatan peninsula is or even where Israel lay on the map, then how can the students hope to know geography. From the frozen campus in Upsala, Sweden to the bottom of Lake Malawi across the ruins in Borobodur, on a boat in the Volga and across the Pacific to Easter Island where you could hop a balsa raft to the mainland and ride a donkey up to Lake Titicaca then catch the nearest condor home to stupidville, USA.
This is the world we live in. People should know about it. I know people who can list details about NASCAR and football statics in minutae but they couldn't hope to tell you where Mauritania, Afghanistan, Syria, or Wales are. It's sad and common in this age.
Stoopid peepul.
cheers, Noel
no method, no guru, no teacher