EDITOR,
   I almost had a coronary while reading through the Sun Post’s Feb. 15 issue! I had to read and reread the "Heard On The Street" piece repeatedly. I then read it out loud to my husband to see if I was missing something and momentarily lost my mind. I am shocked and dismayed that only one out of six people actually knew who were the first three presidents of the United States.

    I can more easily dismiss the 11-year-old because of his age, and since he had at least one out of three correct (and was close with John Quincy Adams). To see someone my age guessing at Bill Clinton and Bush, I sincerely hope that she misunderstood the question due to too many hours of studying Pathophysiology.

    Overall, the answers were shocking, and make me wonder about the state of the school system in this area.  Maybe it is time to do competency testing on those that teach our youth and raise the standards back to what they used to be, instead of lowering them so that more people are able to graduate and not feel "excluded." If we lower the standards any more, you might find your nurse injecting you with Ringer's lactate solution rather than insulin.  

    At least all but one of the respondents knew who the founding father of our nation was. Thank God for small favors.
 
 — Amy Russo, Lathrop, Feb. 18, 2008