This is True

Geography Lesson

Students at Oakhill College in Lancashire, England, who wrote to President George W. Bush to congratulate him on his inauguration were thrilled to get a reply. “I hope you will continue to learn more about our wonderful country,” Bush wrote. “School provides the right foundation so I urge you to study hard. Then you can be well prepared for the future.” But the 11-year-old students dissolved into “gales of laughter” at another line in the letter: “As young Americans, you have an important responsibility, which is to become good citizens.” (Reuters) ...Maybe he knows something they don’t.


Publication Date: 24 June 2001

This story is in True's book collection, Volume 7.