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I feel like geography is a subject that most people have little or no clue about. I remember my first day of AP History junior year of high school, the teacher handed out a map and wanted us all to put the states in their correct places. Out of a 20 person, class, only about half of us got the states correctly (and this was an AP class...pretty smart group of kids).
It's just not one of those subjects that is stressed in schools; I know in CT it was part of the early-level social studies courses, but once I got to middle school (7th grade) there was minimal emphasis on the topic. I don't think it would hurt to have more integration into the high school curriculum, but that's just me.
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