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All I can say is GOOD GRIEF!

This just goes to show how far our education has been dumbed down.

1 posted on 12/18/2008 9:30:57 AM PST by Halfmanhalfamazing
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To: Halfmanhalfamazing

Not me, I wasn’t born until 1957.


2 posted on 12/18/2008 9:32:37 AM PST by SFR
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Answer:

This test hurts my feelings.

4 posted on 12/18/2008 9:35:43 AM PST by ClearCase_guy
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To: Halfmanhalfamazing

Sorry. This is an urban legend. Please see http://www.snopes.com/language/document/1895exam.asp for the background of this hoary chestnut.


6 posted on 12/18/2008 9:36:43 AM PST by redpoll
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To: Halfmanhalfamazing
Snopes 1895 exam
7 posted on 12/18/2008 9:37:20 AM PST by Drew68
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To: Halfmanhalfamazing

Arithmetic’s doable, but the rest... ah... I may need time. ;)


8 posted on 12/18/2008 9:37:22 AM PST by CE2949BB (Fight.)
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To: Halfmanhalfamazing

Since the classroom was different as the teaching of that era and I’ve never been in a classroom of that time period, the answer is no.


10 posted on 12/18/2008 9:38:08 AM PST by lilylangtree (Veni, Vidi, Vici)
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To: Halfmanhalfamazing
Geography:
4. Describe the mountains of N.A.

I can answer that one. I am currently in Irvine CA for business. I reside in MA. This is my first trip to the West Coast.
The only description I can give of the mountains I've seen this week (between rain storms) is...Holy Crap!

I'll be taking lots of photos this weekend. (If I can tear myself away from The Irvine Spectrum.)

11 posted on 12/18/2008 9:38:27 AM PST by Bloody Sam Roberts (A couple of pints and a package of crisps....ahhh. Life's good.)
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“This just goes to show how far our education has been dumbed down. “

In researching the novel I recently wrote, I learned a lot about education in the 1800’s. First it was valued above anything for those who could afford it. I have volumes of documents, letters, written by Cherokee ancestors from the early 1800’s, all the way through. They had to fight hard to be educated and they were better educated than most students of today. One day perhaps, we will get back to the idea of education being valuable.


13 posted on 12/18/2008 9:39:09 AM PST by AuntB (The right to vote in America: Blacks 1870; Women 1920; Native Americans 1925)
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To: Halfmanhalfamazing

I am truly offended and intimidated. That article should have not been written in black. A soft, understated purple should have been used. :D


14 posted on 12/18/2008 9:39:28 AM PST by RushIsMyTeddyBear
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To: Halfmanhalfamazing

The students of today know only to vilify our current President and praise the prez-elect.


15 posted on 12/18/2008 9:39:32 AM PST by lilylangtree (Veni, Vidi, Vici)
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To: Halfmanhalfamazing

No, I could not have passed. Maybe I could dig up a McGuffy Reader.


16 posted on 12/18/2008 9:40:49 AM PST by madison10
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To: Halfmanhalfamazing

i m a publik scewl teechur. I might be able to teach some of this if the NEA would let me. I would also need permission to discipline my students as they would have in 1895.


18 posted on 12/18/2008 9:41:59 AM PST by goodwithagun (My gun has killed less people than Ted Kennedy's car.)
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To: Halfmanhalfamazing

bfltr


19 posted on 12/18/2008 9:42:09 AM PST by mnehring
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Obama’s Harvard-educated pick for Sec. of Education, Duncan, couldn't begin to pass this test. He doesn't even have today's basic grammar skills as evidenced by yesterday's public appearance quote “...gave my wife and I.....” . If it wasn't important for him, why should he think it is important for the children?
20 posted on 12/18/2008 9:42:09 AM PST by Melinda
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To: Halfmanhalfamazing

Ridiculous!
How will this test help my self-esteem?!
And no mention of global warming or diversity?
At least my ‘F’ should be in purple marker...


22 posted on 12/18/2008 9:44:26 AM PST by astyanax (If you need to wear a mask while speaking your mind, it is probably best you remain silent...)
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In a related note, I have a sneak peek for everyone of the 2009 8th grade aptitude test.

1. Describe how you feel now. (4 hours)

24 posted on 12/18/2008 9:44:53 AM PST by mnehring
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To: Halfmanhalfamazing

wtf...!!! lol no wonder kids today are stupid look at todays teachings.....


29 posted on 12/18/2008 9:51:18 AM PST by tatsinfla
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To: Halfmanhalfamazing

Pick up a text book for those times and you’d easliy pass the tests. Things DO change.


39 posted on 12/18/2008 10:08:43 AM PST by Sacajaweau (I'm planting corn...Have to feed my car...)
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To: Halfmanhalfamazing

Yes, but people being people, just like they are today, very few people back then could probably get an A on these tests, either.

The difference is that the people who did poorer on those tests back then, still studied, were learning, and did learn something. Today you’ve got people not even studying at all for anything.


40 posted on 12/18/2008 10:10:43 AM PST by Secret Agent Man (I'd like to tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.)
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Wait wait wait wait.....they had school in the 1800’s???


43 posted on 12/18/2008 10:12:55 AM PST by VanillaBlizzard (Welcome to the USSA (United Socialist States of America))
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