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They were a lot smarter without a teachers union or teachers that went to college. A lot smarter.

They were a lot smarter without a teachers union or teachers that went to college. A lot smarter.

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I quit reading at multiple misspellings of the word percent. They weren't that smart after all. Smarter than the kids of today though.

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per cent | pa 'sent I (also US percent)

adverb by a specified amount in or for every hundred: new car sales may be down nineteen per cent | staff rejected a 1.8 per cent increase.

noun one part in every hundred: a reduction of half a per cent or so in price. • the rate, number, or amount in each hundred.

ORIGIN mid 16th century: from per + cent, perhaps an abbreviation of pseudo-Latin per centum.

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It was wrong back then, and it is still wrong today.

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Not so old chap.

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There is more to this. Beyond "look how dumb we are" "how many can you answer" most do not write things by hand, and the electronic device, PC or smartphone will have spell check, so many don't have to use their brain to recollect words not often used. If you asked kids today to answer this, they will use their phones to find the answers, not to "cheat" but just to "fetch the answer" The kids in 1912 if would at least try to commit this to memory.

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Yeah go ahead. Locate the Erie Canal.

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In vt so I might get lucky, now the guy in Kentucky might have issues since, what region is that canal again? it's like for me anything in the middle east or eastern europe I have no idea since I don't give a fuck about that area or Africa not a clue either.

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It hasn’t really existed for over a hundred years. Even in 1912, infrastructure was being built to supplant it, so its importance wasn’t.

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Didn't think about it existing yet since we learned about that I think in seventh grade.

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that test be racis.

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That test for the room minus the door and window would explain architechure and just building itself why it's not just basic boxes but the men were skilled with math even doing the framing which is now a job strong drunks are given for their ability to drive nails and seems the carpenters might be smarter at times then our engineers we have now. I was shocked to see the government questions since now all answers would be orange man bad with the retards coming out of college and this is I believe high school so we have fallen like a meteor toward the retard circus of generations. Explains how we even have a single democrat where butt fucking and abortion are topics of you push for it to get a whores votes or you cannot run for office.

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This was 8th grade. HS starts at 9th.

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I can't see so well especially stuff like that so that makes us even worse because 8th grade is most kids are still not comprehending basic math and don't know shit about the government. It's like they are slipping stupid pills into the population now. I got canned for being pissed a guy at work said I could be more pussy by growing a beard and I was looking for a wife and said you cannot find a wife if she's got a seasons pass on the cock carosel you can only find an ex or a slut. I was in a very liberal town when that was said in northern NH, fired sexual harassment though I wouldn't even kiss a women if we dated for a while I told a few friends aka frenemies. the entire town was there to currupt good people more coke there than you'd believe like walk in and there's a 1/4 lb on their cats climbing tree on a metal tray, everyones a drunk or fucking around so I'm glad to be out of there.

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I hear tell that Truant Officer Chas G. Birdwell is a real ball buster.

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You can't have a test like this today because some kids can't pass it no matter how many lessons targeting those subjects and that information. The solution is to dumb it down to make sure the teachers look good and pass kids onto the next grade level so that the 9th grade teacher can still have the government job. If everyone is stuck in 8th grade then the education racket will be exposed.

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So if we get rid of the unions then the teachers can look dumb as fuck since I think a lot of teachers with college would fail this test miserably like D- if they were lucky.

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Get rid of unions and then the truth of useless teachers will next put pressure on allowing school vouchers. When parents can choose the educators via vouchers, there will be competition to get actual teachers. The problem will then be that good schools will have to be regulated by government to accept a percentage of the bad students that no school will want. Bad students will lower metrics on student and teacher success scores and ruin overall rankings. Somehow our US system got to the point where everyone gets a trophy/high school diploma in the dumbed-down system, and then therefore everyone can go the next step and enter college, even if not everyone should be going to college. The useless degrees become the ticket to the government jobs.