Maybe I'll stay in Japan...

[JonDubya]

(KSDK) - The federal government gets a failing grade when it comes to its own study guide that is supposed to help immigrants become United States citizens.

The guide, published by the Department of Homeland Security's Office of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, is filled with dozens of spelling, grammar, punctuation, and fact errors.

We asked fourth graders at Herzog Elementary to help the authors of the study guide improve their spelling.

The government spelled "Governor" incorrectly. In the study guide, it reads governer.
The government spelled Great Britain wrong too. In the study guide the word is spelled "Britian".

The study guide is used by hundreds of St. Louisans and people nationwide who are yearning to become United States citizens.

Paul Michaelson, the civics teacher at St. Louis University High School, examined the guide and called it sloppy.

Since St. Louis University High has more perfect ACT scores than a third of Missouri, we asked his students to examine the guide as well.

It didn't take long for 18-year-old Matt Hoffman to find a mistake.

He said, "On the very first page of the study guide, the word naturalization is spelled wrong."
The government version forgot the "r" so it read "natualization" not naturalization.

Question 5 asked how many "strips" are there on the flag.

And question 6 asked, "What do the strips mean on the flag represent?"

The back of the guide states, the colors of the (word "flag" misspelled") are red, white and blue.

18-year-old Mark Zinn was appalled. He said, "It's absolutely ridiculous."

Government spokesperson Marilu Cabrera said, "Our agency reaction was that we can't have a document with mistakes, especially one as important as a study guide. We immediately took action."

In January, after the study guide was on the market for nearly two years, the government published an updated guide.

Mr. Michaelson said, "It still leaves a lot to be desired."

Our SLUH whiz kids found mistakes here too.
They did not find as many mistakes as in the first guide.

In question 85, the answer states President George Washington warned against political parties. SLUH Students stated it was James Madison who first warned against political parties.

Question 89 asks: What kind of government does the United States have? The guide's answer: a Republic.

But one student said, "There are several answers to that question. It could be a federal republic, a representative democracy...and its not just as simple as answering a Republic."

Question 25 and 47 seem to repeat each other.
Question 25 states: There are 100 Senators in Congress, 2 from each state.
Question 47 asks: Why are there 100 Senators in the United States Senate?
Answer: Each state elects 2 Senators.

Question 93 asks: What is the most important right granted to a United States citizen? The SLUH students found that question to be incredibly subjective.

The SLUH Seniors gave the government an "F" on the first guide and a "C" on the updated version.

The spokesperson promised to look into the new errors.

She could not immediately tell us how much each guide cost taxpayers, but promised to have that answer soon.

KSDK

Discuss.

[SweetEBPSi]

I'm telling you, America is the laughing stock compared to other countries.

[OnePointEight]

Immigrants are being bamboozled.

They study rigorously to memorize information half the american population don't know themselves.

[Spork]

we learn all of those things at some point, but it is our god given right as Americans to proptly forget all of it.

[SweetEBPSi]

Immigrants are being bamboozled.

They study rigorously to memorize information half the american population don't know themselves.

What I really hate is that I know someone that was deported due to a grade in school that she was taking over here. For something as little as that. However, an immigrant gets drunk, drives, hits another car, kills the other driver, and doesn't get deported. This is why I hate our government. It seems like they don't look at whats right anymore.

[clndwhr]

I had a friend in High that I am still kind of in touch with and in high he took this test and while studying i was looking over the study guide and was like dude you might as well learn the dictionary, youll get more correct answers from it than this POS and i went on to show him some of the mistakes i found and he nearly failed it due to he actually found the correct answers and used those correct answers on the test. It's pretty ridiculous how many errors there were.