[ml/nj]

Just spent four days with my 2nd grade granddaughter on trip to visit her great-grandmother. We got talking about school, and that I didn't really like it when I was her age. She does seem to like it. She asked me why I didn't like it, and I told her that they spent a lot of time talking about things I wasn't interested in like history. (Things have changed, to be sure, but probably not until I was in my mid-20s.) I don't think she really knew what history meant, but after a brief back and forth the first name she mentioned was ROSA PARKS.

OMG !!

I asked if she knew who George Washington was, and she asked me if I meant GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER. A little more discussion revealed that she did know that the George Washington the first President. I asked her about the second and third. She knew neither even though both of her parents are UVa alumni. (FTR, Mr. Jefferson founded the University of Virginia.)

[This granddaughter is not a dummy. She knows who Anna Netrebko is and can talk about several of her performances.]

ML/NJ

[FreedomPoster]

Go do a Google image search on American scientist.