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 on 07/09 at 02:21 AM

  1. Snopes
    Status:  False.

    Posted by  on  07/09  at  11:44 AM

  2. More like: irrelevant. That this was an actual test is not refuted.

    Posted by  on  07/09  at  01:42 PM

  3. Damn.

    Posted by  on  07/09  at  05:46 PM

  4. I saw this test a few months ago along with the answers. Amazingly, the answers were wrong at least on one specific question.
    As a little test: How many Republics in Europe were there in 1895? 

    Posted by Tim Worstall  on  07/16  at  01:27 AM

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