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Can Your Kid Answer These Questions ? If Not, Why Not ?
Artful Dilettante ^
| June 20, 2018
| Artful Dilettante
Posted on 06/20/2018 6:29:08 PM PDT by huckfillary
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To: huckfillary
"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. ? " 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.
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posted on
06/20/2018 10:01:01 PM PDT
by
Windflier
(Pitchforks and torches ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
To: Mears
...my list,which I memorized in 1948,has 21-and I can still recite it.(Maybe I lost two over 70 years. Mears, you're a treasure. We're blessed to have you as a member.
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posted on
06/20/2018 10:15:03 PM PDT
by
Windflier
(Pitchforks and torches ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
To: nopardons
“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.
To: huckfillary
Sorry even homeschoolers do not know half of this.
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posted on
06/21/2018 12:03:04 AM PDT
by
Bommer
( F the NFL)
To: huckfillary
Minorities had no problems learning these things. Why do they have problems with them now ? 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.
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posted on
06/21/2018 12:10:36 AM PDT
by
eartick
(Stupidity is expecting the government that broke itself to go out and fix itself. Texan for TEXIT!)
To: blueunicorn6
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posted on
06/21/2018 12:37:41 AM PDT
by
lizma2
To: huckfillary
Movable press? Did that mean movable type?
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posted on
06/21/2018 2:24:38 AM PDT
by
luvbach1
(I hope Trump runs roughshod over the inevitable obstuctionists, Dems, progs, libs, or RINOs!)
To: huckfillary
I wonder who the author thinks invented the light bulb....
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posted on
06/21/2018 3:06:12 AM PDT
by
trebb
(Too many "Conservatives" who think their opinions outweigh reality these days...)
To: Yaelle
Boy, you just outed how completely stupid you are!
What kind of idiot would use up memory for Taylor Swift lyrics instead of using that memory for snarking on FR?????
(/s)!
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posted on
06/21/2018 4:46:25 AM PDT
by
rlmorel
(Leftists: They believe in the "Invisible Hand" only when it is guided by government.)
To: huckfillary
Can Your Kid Answer These Questions? 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.
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posted on
06/21/2018 5:08:21 AM PDT
by
MosesKnows
(Love Many, Trust Few, and Always Paddle Your Own Canoe)
To: huckfillary
Apparently this guy does not understand common core. 😀
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posted on
06/21/2018 7:37:33 AM PDT
by
Georgia Girl 2
(The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
To: Windflier
Thanks for the nice compliment. :-)
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posted on
06/21/2018 8:08:59 AM PDT
by
Mears
To: metmom
" the dates in history are irrelevant" ~~~~~~~~~
Just as irrelevant as Time, itself... </SARCASM*gt;
(Time = (paraphrasing Hawking) "...that which keeps everything from happening at once...")
~~~~~~~~~
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?
~~~~~~~~~
Do you think you might want to revise your overstated disdain for factual knowledge a wee bit? '-}
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posted on
06/21/2018 9:05:27 AM PDT
by
TXnMA
("Allah": Satan's current alias; "0bama": Allah's stooge; "Moderate Muslims": Allah's useful idiots.)
To: TXnMA
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? 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.
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posted on
06/21/2018 9:18:42 AM PDT
by
metmom
( ...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith......)
To: huckfillary
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.
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posted on
06/21/2018 9:25:16 AM PDT
by
discostu
(Does this kind of life look interesting to you?!)
To: TXnMA
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.
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posted on
06/21/2018 9:34:54 AM PDT
by
metmom
( ...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith......)
To: rlmorel
My kind of idiot, bub! Plus I can snark and dance to Swift. Ok. Maybe not at the same time.
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posted on
06/21/2018 11:41:59 AM PDT
by
Yaelle
To: Yaelle
LOL...I’m slowly running out of storage space...darn it.
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posted on
06/21/2018 12:09:58 PM PDT
by
rlmorel
(Leftists: They believe in the "Invisible Hand" only when it is guided by government.)
To: Calvin Locke
LOL, I remember that!
Hehehe...WHO MADE THE SALAD????
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posted on
06/21/2018 12:15:56 PM PDT
by
rlmorel
(Leftists: They believe in the "Invisible Hand" only when it is guided by government.)
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