Overview
- Aangad Singh’s family says he answered questions correctly during the Department of Education’s citizenship game show and that broadcast graphics or captions showed those answers as wrong.
- The competition did not show a running scoreboard and Education Department staff refused the family’s request for final scores, telling them the results were “proprietary.”
- While watching the televised broadcast the family kept a detailed spreadsheet called “1776_Broadcast_Audit” and says the record shows multiple discrepancies between what Singh said and what was scored on air.
- The family sought an outside legal review after other parents and at least one contestant told them they had kept their own scores and believed Singh should have placed higher.
- No formal correction or public investigation has been disclosed and the episode has stoked wider concern about transparency and trust in government-run civic programs judged by volunteer teachers with James Madison Memorial Fellowships.