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Link to:

1912 Eighth Grade Examination for Bullitt County Schools

http://www.bullittcountyhistory.com/bchistory/schoolexam1912.html

40 posted on 08/22/2013 9:53:57 AM PDT by Iron Munro (To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize - Voltaire)

What fraction of the Bullitt County 12-13 year old population was enrolled in eighth grade in 1912?

How many of them took the test?

What was the pass rate?

I have no doubt that the public schools are a mess, and also that they are worse than they have ever been. But way, way, WAY too many kids are enrolled past 8th grade, and the necessity of pretending to educate the ineducable and the unwilling distorts everything.

If you think that greater than 25% of 18 year olds are capable of twelfth grade work - EVER - and however delivered - I can only ask, what color is your unicorn?

41 posted on 08/22/2013 11:38:11 AM PDT by Jim Noble (When strong, avoid them. Attack their weaknesses. Emerge to their surprise.)

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