Posted on 06/14/2012 6:27:40 PM PDT by QT3.14
This exam was given in 1931 by the West Virginia Department of Free Schools (now West Virginia Department of Education) to students seeking graduation from eighth grade.
For many students, that was the last year of formal schooling.
The exam is provided John N. Beall of Wilmington, NC, who received it from his father, the teacher who administered the test in a one-room school in Gilmer County, WV.
(Excerpt) Read more at gilmerfreepress.net ...
Better yet challenge a 2012 8th-grader to take it!
Many public-school children seem to know only two dates--1492 and 4th of
July; and as a rule they don't know what happened on either occasion.
In the first place God made idiots. This was for practice. Then He made
school boards.
I've never let my school interfere with my education.
I had a kid at Target last year asked me what date the 4th of July was on.
Yep, she was serious.
I told her on the 5th and she said thanks and walked away.
I've had fun with others with this question: Does Canada have a 4th of July?
They usually think about a moment, then say no.
Then I tell them: "They sure do. They've got a 5th and a 6th too!"
Figures.
Friend went to bakery the day of the September 11 attack. He remarked to the young lady it reminded him of the Pearl Harbor attack.
She never heard of Pearl Harbor adding she must have missed that day in school.
You and I should get along. My Gf is Canadian too, and when I explain to Americans what Boxing Day is in canada, their first thought is Canadians beat each other senseless after Christmas Day.
The math and the spelling were a joke - far inferior to what I would expect an 8th grader to know. The other stuff - the fluff - was much harder than what I would expect an 8th grader to know.
I remember having to draw a map of South America and get the country’s location right and include the major products from each country when I was in the sixth grade. I loved learning it!
Someone needs to proofread the uploaded text. Compare it with the text in the images at the link. OCR misread “write” as “wire” for example.
I stopped counting at 9 mistakes in the copy. Twice they used and for an.
She probably went back to tell her friends about the dumb guy she talked to who thinks the 4th is on the 5th.
The Golden Book Encyclopedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Book_Encyclopedia I read when I was a kid had sections on each state with a map of the resources of the state.
The test seems to be biased in favor of children learning about natural resources in the land around them and exploiting them. This isn't the sort of thing modern children would be taught.
Oh the irony.
Gilmer County Schools were taken over by the State Board of Education last year due to mismanagement.
My thoughts exactly.
I agree...the girls bested you. They were tired of asking “Do you have Prince Albert in a can?” and “Is your refrigerator running?”
Way too hard for me (I grauated from the 12th grade in 1953)
It is as hard as becoming a monk! Like the man that wanted to be a monk, so he applied.
Those that told he how to qualify, said, first go into this little room and stay there for 3 years. He did, and when they let hm come, They said:”Tell us in 2 words what you think.” He said “BED HARD”
They told him to go back into the room and stay 3 more years; when he came out they said: “Tell us what you think in 2 words.” He said “FOOD BAD”
Again they sent him back into the room 3 more years, whe He came they asked him again to tell then in 2 words what he thought. “HE SAID “I QUITE”
They all said:”YOU SHOULD, ALL YOU EVER DO IS COMPLAIN”
I don’t understand the question. Can someone explain? I’m feeling really stupid.
Tell what bad effects may result to pupils from a desk:
too low.
too high.
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