Editor: When asked to name a poet contemporaneous with Shakespeare, 60 percent of high school students picked a twentieth-century poet  Admittedly, it is hard to interpret this result accurately  Does it show that most high school students do not know any poets of Shakespeare' s era, or do they just not know what contemporaneous means
However, either way, there is clearly something deeply wrong with the educational system
as evidence that something is deeply wrong with the educational system