Posted on 06/20/2018 6:29:08 PM PDT by huckfillary
Quite a few of those queries weren't even known by kids, who went to school in the 1920s through the early '60s, when such things WERE actually being routinely taught, until they were in high school.
My grandparents were taught algebra and geometry in the 7th and 8th grade; however, by the time I was in school, even elite private schools were NOT teaching algebra and geometry until high school!
OTOH...my progeny got algebra ( but NOT geometry ), in a very elite private day school.
And now their progeny are getting sort of algebra and geometry, in a private day lower & middle school; however, classic lit is no longer being required reading in any lower nor middle school, that I know of, to the extent it once was,so the English section of this article is also ridiculous because it doesn't have age groupings.
The history part is also all over the place! The ENLIGHTENMENT? In what grades? That wasn't EVER taught in lower grades, in this nation. But some of the other stuff was and still is.
Let’s take the first question.
“Who invented the cotton gin?”
I remember studying about that in grade school.
If you look up “cotton gin” on the Internet (which is what a kid would do), Wikipedia will show you that it was Eli Whitney.
If you continue to read the article, you will read that the cotton gin caused the Civil War.
So, what has the child learned?
Baloney.
Teach the child to research and then question and think.
The Liberals consider themselves to be highly educated because they know Eli Whitney caused slavery.
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“If they know how to pull up porn on their phones they meet the Public schools standards for HS graduation.
Ready for welfare or jail or both”
For heaven’s sake,give it a rest.
There are many excellent public schools,many,
There are 40 or 50 million US kids in public schools—your ridiculous comment is ludicrous.
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You've never read any of those books, as a kid? Cripes...you must have gone to lousy schools and been ignored by parents/grandparents/aunts & uncles!
My phone knows all these answers and more. duh.
March 15, 44 BC
I learned about Eli Whitney in the third grade and NOTHING at all was said about it "causing the Civil War"!
No it doesn’t!
If you say 23,I believe you——my list,which I memorized in 1948,has 21-——and I can still recite it.(Maybe I lost two over 70 years.) :-)
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Well said, and I appreciate your posts on Grace church. I know John.
And public schools are preparing them for jobs bagging groceries for college educated Indians and Chinese.
And to join Antifa.
Re: “Douchebag” and “impressive level of shrillness”
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He’s just illustrating the dumbing down of US education (i.e. lowering the level of difficulty and the intellectual content of something, such as a textbook; also : lowering the general level of intelligence in society.)
...as also described in the following article
An 1895 8th Grade Final Exam: I Couldn’t Pass It. Could You?
https://newrepublic.com/article/79470/1895-8th-grade-final-exam-i-couldnt-pass-it-could-you
Didn’t Don McClean cover this in Great American Pie?
I went to some good schools and some bad. I have a bunch of degrees. I just don’t know all those things in that list. And I can live with it. I can find that stuff out any time.
I think it said life, liberty, and property originally and was changed to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness which meant the right to determine one’s own destiny. But I could be misremembering.
Thanks and thanks.
If you don’t know the name of the Civil War...
Lol
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