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Rozlee

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10. How come teabaggers are such bad spellers if

Reply to marble falls (Original post)

Mon Aug 12, 2013, 11:50 AM

Aug 2013

schools held such strict standards back then? Is it because so many of them are from the South and parts of Appalachia and the government gave them less federal funds for education? Or because many of them lived in rural areas and dropped out of school to work in their family farms? Maybe I'm just stereotyping Southern teabaggers, which is rather uncharitable, but statistics show that even now, public schools in the South are worse than in any other part of the nation.

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Can You Pass This 8th Grade Exam From 1912? [View all] marble falls Aug 2013 OP

An eighth grade education was probably valued at close to a "junior college" education, today. MADem Aug 2013 #1

Apart from imperial units, the Arithmetics section is a doozy. DetlefK Aug 2013 #3

Yeah, I think we'd all have to "go back to school" to ace that thing! MADem Aug 2013 #6

I think many of us would have to go back to school to pass the tests our OWN kids have to take. pnwmom Aug 2013 #15

Hmmmm Old Codger Aug 2013 #2

those are completely different questions sharp_stick Aug 2013 #4

Not the same test, and it's posted by the Bullitt County Geneological Society.... MADem Aug 2013 #5

That is actually pretty similar to tests I took in school JayhawkSD Aug 2013 #7

All in all that test needs some editing. sharp_stick Aug 2013 #8

The "test" was from a newspaper that looks contemporay to the 1912 test. The reporter, typesetter,.. marble falls Aug 2013 #13

There's a typo - LiberalElite Aug 2013 #9

How come teabaggers are such bad spellers if Rozlee Aug 2013 #10

I had to look up what "kalsomining" was. n/t Loudly Aug 2013 #11

I think those 8th graders would also find it difficult passing the tests required of our 8th graders pnwmom Aug 2013 #12

Touché pauliedangerously Aug 2013 #14