Posted on 08/11/2024 7:35:17 AM PDT by hardspunned
8th graders then were better prepared for life in the real world than 12th graders are today.
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I used to play 9th grade football against N. Bullitt and half my extremely racially integrated Army brat team was always fearfully and inexplictedly convinced that the very Klan itself was born there.
Most of the questions are stupid. It was 1957 when I was in eighth grade...and we were Waaaaaaay beyond that crappy little test.....with mostly useless information.
Funniest part: “Given by the teacher”
Wonder if even a modern teacher could verify the answers without looking them up online.
Wrong. This is obviously a proportional font, which did not exist in 1912. It seems to have been transcribed from an original 1912 document to a post-1970s word processor or typewriter, which is what is shown in the link above. I am betting the original did not have typos.
Probably a regional distinction. In recent years here in Upstate NY, that's a "face cord", basically one stacked rank 8' wide, 4' high, and one roughly 18-20" piece deep. Three of those, thus 6'x4'x5' is what's sold as a "full cord". At least by the local firewood services.
Then again, unstacked (cut and split) firewood is ordered and delivered by the truckload or partial truckload, and "cord" definitions are secondary.
They had to be, because the real world back then was not very forgiving and stupidity had big consequences.
Brings back memories. , I wonder what Archie would think about all this transgender stuff going on nowadays.
I doubt a show like All in the Family could be on TV nowadays. You could not use a show like that as a vehicle for exploring some of the issues we have nowadays such as this transgender stuff. The script,writers would not allow Archie to express himself, because to do so he would be said to be transphobic and homophobic and all of that.
The need to be woke and politically correct in today’s Hollywood overrides everything else.
The "goal" is not to prepare students for life.
Rather, to prepare students remain in the "educational industrial complex" - "Big Education"
$$$$$
Bet they knew the definition of NBC.
Many of today’s students can’t read or do their sums. Last year, 13 Baltimore HS had zero pass the state math test and most others were still reading at an elementary level.
Walz let Minnesota’s schools drop rankings during his time.
What’s left for the foreign country or what’s left for the US?
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I could not pass it today. Might get a D-.
Here’s a 2024 test for 8th graders I found:
1. Josef Stalin was a hero for humanity. Please spell his last name.
2. What is 1 + 1? 2 or 11 will be acceptable answers.
3. The first line of the Soviet national anthem is:
“Unbreakable Union of freeborn Republics,
Great Russia has welded forever to stand.
Created in struggle by will of the people,
United and mighty, our Soviet land!”
What is the first word of the Soviet national anthem? Hint: The first few letters are “Unbreakabl*”
Heh, I’d love to see Kam the HO’s score on that.
Back in the day when young people were educated instead of indoctrinated into the socialist/NWO crap???
Don’t worry, they all have it on their phones.
My dad was born in 1914 in SC. He was the son of a sharecropper who worked his kids like slaves, frankly. He never got past the 5th grade because by that time he was too valuable as a work hand than wasting time on schooling all day.
He pretty much had to remain like that - working on the farm- until he couldn’t take it anymore and enlisted in the Army in 1939. He was there in the thick of it from before the war til long after in 1965 when he had to retire because of service connected disabilities that were connected to all the south seas A/H bomb tests he was assigned to.
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