Why are we falling back in Geography?

Lately I have again and again been amazed at how many people really do not know the simplest of Geography. My history class for example: “Isn’t France in Italy? Its a city right?” (And me slapping my hand over my face. _ ) Ex.2 : “I didn’t know where Mexico was on that map, is it at the bottom?” (P.S I live in America) . Are people really losing that much knowledge? I thought these were just common sense things that you just know.