Friday, July 09, 2004

But They Could Name Every Crotch on MTV

The state of education in the U.S. is, depending upon who you speak with, either pitiful, or leaving no child behind.  I’m in the pitiful camp.  I just looked at a final exam for eighth graders, which, I would wager, big, 99.8% of eighth graders could not pass, heck, I’d bet big many twelfth graders couldn’t pass, today.  The exam is from 1895 and was given in Salinas, Kansas.

Title to this post is a modification of a lyric from an Iris DeMent tune.

Link to exam via Fred Lapides.

Posted by John Venlet on 07/09 at 02:21 AM
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