I get tired of all the taunting after a while. You know, all the news reports telling us how much American kids suck at geography. Well, it isn’t just American kids. Japanese kids suck at the subject also.

It wasn’t only small countries that didn’t register, however.

Takizawa said that some students couldn’t find the United States and located it in China, Brazil or the central African state of Congo.

Now my wife can’t find things on the map but both of my kids have been playing with maps and globes since they were babies and are pretty dog-gone good at locating states, countries and continents on a map. They both have fairly high aptitudes in math and science too but neither one could be called good students.