Posted on 04/26/2012 3:59:31 PM PDT by jacquej
A story and two questions on the New York state English exam taken by eighth-graders this week has stumped many including Jeopardy! star Ken Jennings.
The story titled The Pineapple and the Hare was included in a New York Daily News story about the consternation the questions have caused.
(Excerpt) Read more at npr.org ...
NT! lol!
Probably. And they’ll probably have to answer questions about Hemingway’s “The Elderly Man and the Sea.”
I do know that one question on the 6th grade math had no correct answers.
And when a smart kid figures that out...it is distracting for him/her as they continue on with the rest of the test.
someone went to the original author and interviewed him.
He complained they had rewritten his story - and he also thought the questions were silly.
“Wet birds don’t fly at night” ; Jackie Vernon
It is obviously a subliminal attempt by the New York State Teacher’s Association to force their homosexual agenda on us by pretending that fruits are just like everybody else.
Elderly? Are you serious (series)?
Yes, several years ago the NY Board of Regents decided to change “The Old Man and the Sea” to “The Elderly Man and the Sea.”
OMG!
*not* pineapple ;)
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