Everything Important In Life Depends On Your Ability To Answer This Kindergarten Question

Business Insider ^ | 10/01/2010 | Joe Weisenthal

[Hot Tabasco]

I think I think too much.

Cup = Pinta, one of Christopher Columbus's boats....

[listenhillary]

You have to admit with a handle like cajungirl, it catches the eye and the imagination. Visions of spicy food, exotic music.

How old are you? (not hitting, promise)

[listenhillary]

Looks like the drummer has the sheet up as a splatter guard.

[Reeses]

Now, did you score well on that kindergarten test and graduate from a great school?

Many of the graphs are intentionally misleading by not starting the vertical axis at zero. I'm glad I didn't pay for this propaganda. Why is it colleges claim credit for people's brains and incomes yet all they really do is filter out as many idiots as they can afford to.

[Sloth]

When I was a kid our 2nd grade teacher began one ‘test’, first by announcing there were 100 things to do on it. The first item on the test read: “Read all questions before beginning this test.” The next item read: “Stand up and pat your head...” The next: “Rub you tummy...” The test did not give enough time to complete all remaining items - but they were pretty much “Hop in place 25 times..” and so on. The last item read: “If you followed the first item and read through all questions FIRST - congratulations! Put your head down and rest for ten minutes.

Whenever I encounter such a test, I wonder why the final item is supposed to get priority over all the rest. If there is a contradiction between two instructions, I fail to see why the latter one would automatically be assumed to be the binding one.

[Blueflag]

LOL ... it’s that kind of day ya know.

[kabumpo]

Yes, I remember that used to happen to me.

[goodwithagun]

Of course this is correct if one can already read. If you look at a former post of mine, my juniors and seniors mostly read at about a 5th grade level. That is the level at which they stopped formal reading class. From 6th grade on they have Language Arts where they learn only 10 vocab words/week. Up to 5th grade they learn whole word memorization. It is no coincidence that they are still stuck at an elementary reading level.

[goodwithagun]

You must not be very familiar with eduction. “Experts” are paid handsomely (from our hard work) to reinvent the wheel every few years. The phonics phase is so 1990’s and whole-word memorization is back. The only trend that public education will not return to is the classical trivium method. That’s because it works.

[aruanan]

You must not be very familiar with eduction. “Experts” are paid handsomely (from our hard work) to reinvent the wheel every few years. The phonics phase is so 1990’s and whole-word memorization is back. The only trend that public education will not return to is the classical trivium method. That’s because it works.

The Chicago Public Schools is phonics-based in reading instruction starting in kindergarten.

[BenKenobi]

I’m a college tutor, I try to destroy the whole word system by spelling out and breaking down all the latin terminology. It can be painful, but by the end of it, the student can actually read.

[goodwithagun]

Good for them. Now if the rest of the country would just follow suit we could have some progress.

[GOPJ]

God love ya - most of us have done something like this during our time here... posting quickly carries it’s own risks... On the lighter side, you might have created a classic thread...

[Blueflag]

Yup. It’s rewarding to have added to the FReeper lexicon.

I duk-kup’d.

;-)

[GOPJ]

You’re a good sport... and you’ve joined freeper lore...