Posted on 06/20/2018 6:29:08 PM PDT by huckfillary
If your kids don't know these things, it's time you seriously considered educational alternatives for your child. And please don't say you can't afford it, because you can't afford not to. If you love your children, take them out of public school, find a good private/parochial school, homeschool, or simply keep them at home. They'll learn a lot more watching Jeopardy and Wheel of Fortune than spending seven hours in a government-run holding tank for the children of dysfunctional parents.
Below are subject matters that my peers and I learned between the ages of 10-17. These issues and facts were taught during the 60s and 70s. Minorities had no problems learning these things. Why do they have problems with them now ? It's called the "soft racism of low expectations."
Ask your children or grandchildren these questions. If they can't answer a good many of them, your children are the victims of child abuse.
QUESTIONS
Who invented the cotton gin?
The steamboat ?
The electric lightbulb?
Movable press?
The reaper?
The sewing machine?
Vulcanized rubber?
Can you identify all 50 states from a map of the United States? And name their capitals?
Can you diagram a sentence?
Do you know the rules governing the use of "less vs. fewer?"
Can you quickly recite the multiplication tables? Like, right now.
Can you discuss the significance and meaning of the Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation, and U.S. Constitution?
Can you name five major figures of the Renaissance? The Enlightenment?
On which date was Julius Caesar assassinated?
Could you identify most of the countries on a map of the world ?
Can you briefly discuss the early American settlements at Plymouth and Jamestown? What drew these early settlers to risk life and limb to come here?
Can you name the major battles of the War of Independence? Which war preceded the War of Independence that, in fact, helped set the stage for the War of Independence?
Can you prove that a triangle is 180 degrees?
Can you prove that alternate exterior angles are equal?
Can you name the formula of the Pythagorean Theorem?
Can you name the formula of Einstein's theory of relativity?
Can you cite the four rights enshrined in the First Amendment?
Can you name your Natural Rights? HINT: There are three.
Do you know the rules of punctuation, grammar, and syntax, i.e. the King's English---the correct use of quotation marks, when to use a semi-colon instead of a comma, the rules of capitalization, etc. ?
Can you name the seven continents?
Can you the name seven parts of speech?
Can you name the seven auxiliary verbs?
Do you know the "rule of three" in mathematics?
Have you read any of the following---A Tale of Two Cities, any Shakesperean plays, Oliver Twist, Wuthering Heights, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, The Last of the Mohicans, Uncle Tom's Cabin, Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn, Little Women, Scarlet Letter, The Red Badge of Courage, The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, Democracy in America ? If not, can you at least name the authors of these classics ?
Do you know the difference between a peninsula and isthmus?
Can you briefly discuss the Protestant Reformation, Counter Reformation? Can you name the major players of these historic periods?
Who is Charlemagne and why is he important? On which day was he crowned the first Holy Roman Emperor and what was the name of the crown?
Can you discuss the Age of Discovery? Columbus, Pizarro, de Leon, Sir Walter Raleigh, Sir Francis Drake, Magellan, Balboa ? What can you say about these conquistadores and explorers?
Can you identify at least five major figures of the Enlightenment ? Can you identify the generally accepted years during which the Enlightenment took place? What was the significance of the period? Explain its impact on our own history?
Our country is routinely called a democracy. This is soooo incorrect. Our Founding Fathers loathed the idea of democracy, likening it to the "rule of the mob." Which term correctly describes our form of government?
What is a synonym? An antonym ? A homonym?
Do you know when to use there, their, and they're ? Your and you're ?
Do you know the formulae for converting Fahrenheit to Celsius and vice versa?
Can you name the planets? In order of their distance from the sun ?
Can you name the oceans ?
What was the first battle/act of aggression in the War of Northern Aggression (i.e. Civil War) ?
Can you name the Great Lakes ? In order of size ?
I could go on and on. But these are just the basics of grammar, mathematics, and history that all of us were required to learn while attending school in the 60s and 70s. Minorities were required to learn these things, and did. I don't recall any minorities struggling with these things. If they are, it's termed the "soft racism of low expectations."
Judging by the posts on this forum, I'd sadly have to say that most Freepers would fail this portion of the test.
As for myself - even though I left high school in the early 70s, and spent half my school years in superior military-run schools, I'd probably only manage a weak passing grade on the whole thing.
Mears, you're a treasure. We're blessed to have you as a member.
“You may be bored, but your post is NOT 1) funny 2) clever 3) educated 4) with the time it took to read.”
OK. OK. Point taken. I’d ask for a pardon but then I saw your name.
Sorry even homeschoolers do not know half of this.
One major reason because they KNOW they will be passed no matter what.
The other is the same thing that affects non-minorities not to learn it. A well rounded home with both parents showing an interest in the child learning.
Protective tariffs???
Movable press? Did that mean movable type?
I wonder who the author thinks invented the light bulb....
What kind of idiot would use up memory for Taylor Swift lyrics instead of using that memory for snarking on FR?????
(/s)!
Compare this to the 1895 High School test that floats around the Internet.
At one time students had to provide the answer rather than select an answer from a list.
At one time teachers had to read the answers the students’ provided.
Thanks for the nice compliment. :-)
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Just as irrelevant as Time, itself... </SARCASM*gt;
(Time = (paraphrasing Hawking) "...that which keeps everything from happening at once...")
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Dear lady, your posts generally reflect knowledge and wisdom. Whence, then, did the above idiocy come?
How is it that you are assured that your mother was not born before her great-grandfather?
How do you know that the quotation, "...a date that shall live in infamy..." was not first applied to the election of Barack Hussein 0bama?
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Do you think you might want to revise your overstated disdain for factual knowledge a wee bit? '-}
And it's child abuse because I don't care what year that happened in?
The name of his CROWN? Really?
That's about as irrelevant as knowing the name of Dwight Moody's song leader.
Hell I can’t name most of them. Some I used to be able to but I haven’t done a geometric proof in over 30 years and don’t plan to start again. Really they’re mostly useless information, unless you play Trivial Pursuit professionally. Ides of March is my anniversary though (yes on purpose), I can’t forget that one.
You know, if I really want to know that stuff in history, then I can look it up, but honestly, it does not affect my day to day living very much.
I think it is more important to know what happened and WHY as opposed to just memorizing names, dates, and places.
Being able to spew back facts does not equal a quality education. Being able to think does.
My kind of idiot, bub! Plus I can snark and dance to Swift. Ok. Maybe not at the same time.
LOL...I’m slowly running out of storage space...darn it.
LOL, I remember that!
Hehehe...WHO MADE THE SALAD????
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