Teaching trash

This happened on the last working day before Christmas. I was chatting with 3 biggies in my office.( I resented that fact later when I knew that all the youngsters in the office were sitting in the next room and talking about bringing an Xbox and playing for the next 3 hours.) The chat went different paths and the topic became school kids and their education. The company chairman said he was helping his son do Physics homework. The question was "If you are halfway between the earth and the moon, would there be any gravitational pull on you?" And the answer key said, the correct answer was "No". What? So, the teacher has never heard about Newton's law of Universal gravitation? If this is the sort of trash school kids are taught here, I don't know what the future holds for the USA.