We do teach geography in schools. Not much knowledge retention evidently. If it isn't on TV, people don't remember

We do learn geography, though some schools/teachers are better than others. Geography is included in most history standards. It's up to the student whether they pay attention and learn the material.

Oh they teach geography. It's just that you can get a D in all classes and still graduate. Also, you don't have to graduate from school to post on the internet.

I'm sure they don't. They don't even know the difference between US of A, North America and (the) Americas). How did this country become so powerful in the first place ?? Not by educating their people, that's for sure

I’m a freshman in an honors world history class and I know we’ve been learning some geography in almost every topic we’ve covered, including the ones that aren’t solely geography. I personally have a lot of trouble remembering the names of places just because I’m more visual than... I’m not sure what the other word is, but I know many of my peers have fantastic geographic knowledge, of the United States, and even of the countries in other continents, historically and presently. However, as I said this is an honors class but I’m also a freshman so I don’t expect that this class won’t be taught to those at regular pace in sophomore-ish year. So we do learn geography but for some students, the way that it’s taught does make it difficult to retain over long periods. I definitely wouldn’t make the mistake above, though.

I love my country but...I am so embarrassed to be an American at times....

They do. It's just we have a lot of stupid people amf no amount of public education can help these people. I am not sure how they tie their own shoes.

No, they do. I'm taking one as we speak.

They teach it, but people don’t care enough to learn it.

They do. Some people just don't pay attention.

We get it, you hate America and you think we are all trash. Bugger off already.

They don’t. They also don’t teach Civics anymore. Both of those subjects must be added back into the required public school curriculum ASAP!

You learn state capitals major geographical features, and that's about it. It's embarrassing, really. I'm thankful my parents were both college professors.

They do, idk where the information went for these people.

And now we know why the votes go the way they do....

Actually they do. Perhaps some people don't pay attention or sleep during class. Not everyone can be perfect.

Oh, they do.

They don't really teach world geography so USAers confuse USA locations with the places they were named after. We still call our north eastern states New England (maybe not relevant, but it bugged me when I heard it today).

I mean, they sure as heck try

we do learn geography that's the sad part

They don't. I can confirm

In the UK, we had a choice of either History or Geography.

They're confusing the state of Georgia with the country of Georgia. Odds are good that they also think that New Mexico is a foreign country.

I never had a geography class. It gets some random mention in like the 2nd grade, when you’re learning continents and things like that. Always found it interesting, so mostly studied maps and taught myself.

Oh, they teach it. Some people are just stupid.

I had a geography class in 7th grade(I’m American by the way) and one of the first things we learned was the us map

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Sum Guy has officially been put on the "do not fly list" .

Well, to be honest - I am from Europe and I am pretty sure, that even though I had geography at school, I will have some problems with blind map of USA...

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I actually had this conversation recently. Someone told me that they didn't have a geography class in elementary school, so I asked friends/co-workers and I Googled it. Less than half of the people I found had a Geography class in elementary or high school.

No they do...I am awesome with world geography 😊

They do it just happens in middle school after that you forget it and move on

*and Autocorrect is killing me.

The problem (at least for my school) is we learned in about 5th grade, so about 11 years old. We only went over it again maybe once or twice throughout the rest of school, and usually just our state and neighboring states. We also went over world geography, but never went back over it, and that was around 12 years old (6th grade).

They did teach geography in classes to supplement the subject/time period of interest, however, the quality and emphasis...

Why would we want to learn about other countries when we're obviously superior?! /s

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Let's be honest, they don't have much luck teaching anything to students these days.

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499 out of 500 American young adults don't know what or where Australia is.