Should Math Be Taught In Schools? Miss USA 2011 Spoofed (VIDEO)

Last week, the Miss USA Pageant put out a video montage of every crowned Miss USA's answer to the question, "Should evolution be taught in schools?"

Unfortunately, the ladies' answers played directly into the "notoriously inarticulate" trope for the most part, and the general consensus among YouTube voters (4,700 to 400) seems to be that the video does not reflect well on the pageant or the U.S. On the bright side, the things these women said were also prime parody material.

Mackenzie Fegan and friends stepped up to the plate with a pitch-perfect parody and did the Miss USA girls one better by asking whether or not math should be taught in our nation's schools. The ladies give some thoughtful responses.

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Comments

[mrfnk]

04:56 PM on 06/30/2011

OK, I'm gonna say it. The best answer here, "Not to Women."

I disagree with her, but it's still the best answer here.

[VTL]

04:34 PM on 06/30/2011

hidenout - "I know many, many liberals who never made it through high school....­.you've got your won set of problems as well."

Implying it's the conservatives who are being parodied here?

Duh.

[loncowber]

04:02 AM on 06/30/2011

Both the parody and the actual video are hilarious, The actual video is the future of this country if liberals don't vote.

[hidenout3]

01:52 PM on 06/30/2011

I know many, many liberals who never made it through high school.....you've got your won set of problems as well.

[hidenout3]

01:52 PM on 06/30/2011

lol (at myself)....own...

[VTL]

04:33 PM on 06/30/2011

And I bet some of your best friends are black?

[hoagie76]

11:49 PM on 06/29/2011

I just watched the actual responses of the Miss USA and wow. Isn't evolution taught in schools already? Wasn't that what the scopes trial was about? It seems the northern state reps have a much better grasp than most of the southern states. Another reason why I'm glad I grew up in a northern state.

[mokvaw]

03:40 AM on 06/30/2011

We were taught evolution in schools in the south. Dinosaur National Park is only an hours drive southwest of Dallas/Ft Worth.

[artist-53]

04:03 PM on 06/29/2011

I went back to view the original video and I can't believe I sat through it.

For those that want creationism, fine , go to a religious or a charter school.

BTW, the spoof was far more entertaining than the original. :-)

[TaxpayingVoter]

04:44 PM on 06/29/2011

That's because the original was heartbreaking and frightening.

[hoagie76]

11:53 PM on 06/29/2011

yea I was pretty sure the scopes trial was what made it possible to teach evolution in schools.....and you can't teach biology without it....