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As part of President Donald Trump’s 250th celebrations, the Department of Education held a game show about American citizenship. Aangad Singh’s family is concerned it may have been rigged. <\/p>\n

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NOTUS reported that there appeared to be some creative counting of answers during a show that depended on points, but had no scoreboard. <\/p>\n

\u201cIt doesn\u2019t make sense,\u201d said Singh’s mother, Ramandeep.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey just made this whole thing for show,\u201d his uncle said. \u201cThey know who they want to win.\u201d<\/p>\n

As the family left the event, other parents of kids on the game show stopped them, saying how “shocked” they were. One boy stopped her and said that a group of contestants kept their own scores. <\/p>\n

“We thought he won,” the boy said, according to the report. <\/p>\n

Even the young blond teen who won couldn’t look him in the eye. She was a homeschooled student from Wyoming.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat was insane,\u201d she confessed. \u201cYou clearly knew everything.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat did she say?\u201d Singh’s father asked.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat I should have won,\u201d the boy reiterated.<\/p>\n

That’s when his mother approached the Department of Education official to ask for the final scores. They refused to hand them over, claiming they were “proprietary.”<\/p>\n

\u201cHow did they count the numbers?\u201d she said. \u201cThat\u2019s something we need to understand.\u201d<\/p>\n

So, they waited until the show was broadcast and watched, doing their own scorekeeping. His father was ready, with a spreadsheet titled \u201c1776_Broadcast_Audit” open on his laptop.<\/p>\n

“Aangad\u2019s parents didn\u2019t want to accuse anyone of fixing the competition,” the NOTUS report said. “But they felt compelled to ask questions because their son never would.”<\/p>\n

Not only was there no scoreboard during the competition, but the show also never put the scores on the screen. <\/p>\n

In the third round, the question had multiple answers; each contestant received the full 20 points. When it came to Singh’s turn the question was, \u201cAccording to Article 3 of the U.S. Constitution, in which cases do the federal courts have jurisdiction?\u201d He had to list all four answers for full credit. <\/p>\n

He did it, yet the graphic on the screen counted two of the correct answers as wrong. <\/p>\n

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\u201cMaritime jurisdiction.\u201d Correct. <\/p>\n

\u201cParties of state and citizens of another state,” was marked incorrect.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat?\u201d Aangad said on the couch, his voice sharp.<\/p>\n

He got two more correct, then another wrong: \u201cCase with state and foreign nation.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat?\u201d Singh’s said. <\/p>\n

He pulled out his phone to look up the Constitution. Sure enough, it said the phrases \u201cbetween a State and Citizens of another State\u201d and \u201cbetween a State, or the Citizens thereof, and foreign States, Citizens or Subjects.\u201d<\/p>\n

The final was a lightning round. They asked the amendment that ended slavery, and Singh answered the 13th. They counted it wrong. The screen displayed the correct answer. Singh exclaimed that was what he said. <\/p>\n

His only conclusion was that they thought he said fourteenth. While they were watching on television, however, the auto-generated captions also captured his answer as “thirteenth.” <\/p>\n

The family is split between those who think the judges were simply incompetent and those who believe something more nefarious was afoot. Singh’s uncle wants an investigation. <\/p>\n

\u201cI personally think that they just had faulty sources,\u201d Singh said. <\/p>\n

The judges were all teachers who received the James Madison Memorial Fellowship to study the Constitution. The only thing Singh could think is that they graded things incorrectly. The report said “it seemed likely to him that they hadn\u2019t memorized Article 3 as well as he had. Or maybe his answers didn\u2019t match the phrasing on their rubrics.”<\/p>\n

\u201cThat shows ineptness,\u201d Singh said.<\/p>\n

They tried to decide if they should press things with the Department of Education. Singh’s mother didn’t think that they could afford such a fight. <\/p>\n

NOTUS reporter Sam Fortier was invited by the Department of Education to follow Singh through the competition. “Now, their predicament felt like a window into something bigger: If the government or the courts couldn\u2019t bring them justice, then maybe, they thought, the media could,” he wrote. <\/p>\n

“All I could do was write what happened. But the Fourth Estate was another institution at low ebbs in trust and influence, and [Singh’s father] knew it. He doubted the government would bow to media pressure,” said Fortier.<\/p>\n

In the end, they reached out to a lawyer, asking for an objective eye to calculate the answers and the scores to see whether Singh was supposed to be in the top three. <\/p>\n

The family moved on, the reporter said, “He didn\u2019t see Miriam, the girl from Wyoming, tell her local newspaper that she was surprised by who made the top three. He didn\u2019t see the Education Department use<\/u> Miriam\u2019s homeschooling as a cudgel in the culture war.”<\/p>\n

Read more Trump biographer reveals the trouble he doesn\u2019t see coming after the midterms<\/a><\/p>\n

His father messaged the Department of Education, but never got a response.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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