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To: snoringbear
Actually students of those one room school houses would do quite well if tested by today’s tests, especially if compared against today’s counterparts.

In reading, writing, and arithmetic, I'd bet on an eighth grader from a one-room schoolhouse over the average High School graduate of today.`Chances are the Eight grader would do better at History and the classics, too.

36 posted on 03/21/2015 7:18:01 AM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: Smokin' Joe
In reading, writing, and arithmetic, I'd bet on an eighth grader from a one-room schoolhouse over the average High School graduate of today.`

I consider myself a partial graduate of the one-room schoolhouse as I had a couple of teachers in elementary school who began their teaching careers in one-room rural schools. One was my 4th grade teacher who had also taught my godfather in an actual one-room schoolhouse across the road from where I lived the first five years of my life. This teacher's methods would appall modern "educators" with her emphasis on rote learning, drills, and in-class spelling bees.

I expect Bo-bray's meltdown on such methods would be epic.

73 posted on 03/21/2015 8:28:26 AM PDT by T-Bird45 (It feels like the seventies, and it shouldn't.)
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