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Pretty damned RACIST! A kid would have to study for eight years to know all of that stuff. I’d pass it but I wouldn’t be bragging about my score.
1 posted on 08/11/2024 7:35:17 AM PDT by hardspunned
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"Civil Government"? Whut's dat?

"History"? Who dafuq cares about history?

2 posted on 08/11/2024 7:39:37 AM PDT by dayglored (“Courtesy is owed. Respect is earned. Love is given.” - Kinky Friedman 1944-2024)
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8th graders then were better prepared for life in the real world than 12th graders College students are today.

Fixed it.

3 posted on 08/11/2024 7:41:29 AM PDT by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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They didn’t have to wonder about what sex they were.


5 posted on 08/11/2024 7:45:02 AM PDT by ryderann
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8th graders, 8th graders. I had to keep reminding myself of that while reading this, I kept thinking High school seniors. Nope, this is a test for kids 12 - 13 years old. Unbelieveable. Just shows the incredible damage the communists have done to education.


6 posted on 08/11/2024 7:46:46 AM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (As long as Hillary Clinton remains free, the USA will never have equal justice under the law)
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May if most kids would have dropped out of school by the eighth grade to enter the workforce or if they were lucky an apprenticeship.

For most of society, If you could read and write and ‘do your sums’ you were educated enough.


7 posted on 08/11/2024 7:48:58 AM PDT by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.)
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Here is a link to the exam. It is much easier to read:

1912 Eighth Grade Examination for Bullitt County Schools

8 posted on 08/11/2024 7:51:15 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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And now a modern question:

Congress gave $210 million to a corrupt foreign regime. How much is left for the country after Joe Biden takes his 10% and the foreign leader takes 2/3 of what’s left?


10 posted on 08/11/2024 7:55:00 AM PDT by Leaning Right (The steal is real.)
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This would require study, can’t do that nowadays!


12 posted on 08/11/2024 7:58:53 AM PDT by Reno89519 (“We believe in the collective,” says Gun Grabbing Harris and Stolen Valor Timmy "Tampon" Walz.)
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It’s amazing how fast this country has taken a dump. Read Laura Ingalls Wilder books to catch a glimpse of the fledgling education system of the late 19th century and the education standards of the day. Also how teachers operated. It’s really impressive how it only took 1.5 centuries for our populace to go from Christian fundamentalist, educated, respectful, motivated people to the dregs we have today. Really uncanny and an interesting study in the human condition


14 posted on 08/11/2024 8:01:24 AM PDT by Rural_Michigan
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“Define Personal Pronoun.”

Considering we have a SCOTUS clown who can’t do that we are Fd. And I bet she couldn’t answer a single one of these questions. And neither could that woman with a “PhD in Break Dancing” from Australia.


16 posted on 08/11/2024 8:11:55 AM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
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Did anyone actually pass that test?


17 posted on 08/11/2024 8:21:08 AM PDT by Jonny7797
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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.


21 posted on 08/11/2024 8:27:56 AM PDT by Theophilus (covfefe)
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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.


24 posted on 08/11/2024 8:29:22 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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Funniest part: “Given by the teacher”

Wonder if even a modern teacher could verify the answers without looking them up online.


25 posted on 08/11/2024 8:35:23 AM PDT by P.O.E. (Pray for America.)
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They had to be, because the real world back then was not very forgiving and stupidity had big consequences.


28 posted on 08/11/2024 8:41:49 AM PDT by bigbob
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...prepared for life...

The "goal" is not to prepare students for life.

Rather, to prepare students remain in the "educational industrial complex" - "Big Education"

$$$$$

30 posted on 08/11/2024 8:59:52 AM PDT by goo goo g'joob (When honest people say what's true, calmly and without embarrassment, they become powerful)
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34 posted on 08/11/2024 9:42:00 AM PDT by Fledermaus (Clay Bevis and Cuck Butthead are panty wadded, pearl clutching cowards. Rush deserves better.)
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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*”


36 posted on 08/11/2024 9:56:52 AM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (As long as Hillary Clinton remains free, the USA will never have equal justice under the law)
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Heh, I’d love to see Kam the HO’s score on that.


37 posted on 08/11/2024 10:00:02 AM PDT by Da Coyote
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Back in the day when young people were educated instead of indoctrinated into the socialist/NWO crap???


38 posted on 08/11/2024 10:05:17 AM PDT by high info voter (Delivery )
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