Posted on 06/14/2012 6:27:40 PM PDT by QT3.14
This exam was given in 1931 by the West Virginia Department of Free Schools (now West Virginia Department of Education) to students seeking graduation from eighth grade.
For many students, that was the last year of formal schooling.
The exam is provided John N. Beall of Wilmington, NC, who received it from his father, the teacher who administered the test in a one-room school in Gilmer County, WV.
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Today almost no high school seniors could complete the test much less pass it. The public schools have been dumbed down. Students in advanced programs are probably more advanced today but the standards for the average students have declined dramatically.
Teachers have lost control of the classrooms in most schools. Students learn little or nothing. Public schools have become a waste of time and money.
Today almost no high school seniors could complete the test much less pass it. The public schools have been dumbed down. Students in advanced programs are probably more advanced today but the standards for the average students have declined dramatically.
Teachers have lost control of the classrooms in most schools. Students learn little or nothing. Public schools have become a waste of time and money.
“In what way do poets gain courage through animal or plant life?”
How do I answer this?
Normally I would agree with you, however this girl and her friends had been talking about a 4th of July party they were going to attend, the invite said “4th of July party at 7pm” and were trying to figure when the party was.
I wish I could write the “valley girl” language and inflection of the words.
Prince Albert, back in the day (no caller ID) a common prank call along with “is your refrigerator running?”, hadn’t thought about that in a loooooong time.
:-))
They are asking the student to describe ergonomics. Possible answers would include cramps, stiff neck, sore wrists, headache, and in extreme cases oxygen deprivation (That’s a high desk!).
Almost got that beat. I was at the register of a store when the power went out. The high school girl at the register was trying to compute the cost of my 3 items costing $5 each.
She seemed to be stumped and called out to her co-worker - another high school girl. She hollered to her -”Hey, how much is 3 times 5 ?”
Her friend shouted back. “I don’t know but I think it’s the same as 5 times 3.”
No lie really happened. I shudder at what goes on in our schools.
LOL! Really? Answer one question, just one on that test. Without using the Internet....kids back then had to use....a book. No calculaters from Walmart....nothing....except memory.
Really? Those dumb idiot children went on to fight in World War 2. Apparently, perfect diction wasn't what was taught, to those morons that allow you to post silly repiles....patriotism.....what a concept!
Ask a Liberal how many people died at Three Mile Island. After they make their third guess, give them this clue.
One less than died in Ted Kennedy’s Oldsmobile.
I told the kid my purchase is $6.29. I gave you a $10 so start with $6.30 and just count your way up to $TEN DOLLARS. He still didn't get it.
A bit to liberal to me....praising taxes, what does the state do with gasoline taxes and automobile tag money? Why is it good to pay taxes? I don’t think this test is any better than what the kids get today with regards to the liberal parts.
I didn’t get that either....I read it twice and decided to skip it and pretend I didn’t read it....lol. I am interested to find out what that was all about.
Ping!
We homeschooled. From time to time my wife would turn our house into a store. The kids would go around the house and put price stickers on things. We would then buy several items and pay for them with play money. The kids would have to add the price of the items by hand and then count back the correct change. I would even try and bargin on the price. My kids were ruthless negociators.
They got pretty good at it. It was fun.
I don’t care. Even 20 years ago there were no computers to learn math. And math was more advanced then than it was on that weak math test from the 19th century.
I will laugh to myself the next time someone says they don’t teach math anymore. Math is definitely more advanced now.
Really? Take a good look at the Moon launches, to old for you I'm sure. They were using slide rules. Those were real engineers. Not some Walmart calculater, I'm allowed multiple choices on the internet children of today. I'll tell you what. Have your geniuses you are so proud of build a Saturn 5, with slide rules....then get back to me.
Have become? Nothing has changed in the last century. As I quoted Mark Twain earlier....
I've never let my school interfere with my education.
BTW. You have more computing power in your cellphone than all of NASA when the Apollo missions were done....I know they don’t teach such things anymore.....
“Even 20 years ago there were no computers to learn math.”
LOL!
Boob.
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