Education in the U.S.

[susanmcgee48176]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Lee Storm(God Is The Healing 
Force)" <n2fgc at ...> wrote:
> 
> [Lee]:
> Maybe, but I guess I'm an old-fashioned gal who believes that in the
> elementary grades the education of basic geography, knowledge about 
one's
> country (like the fact that there are five finger-lakes and seven 
great
> lakes and fifty states, as well as knowlege of how to write a 
complete and
> coherent sentence is essential to everyday life.  

Uh oh..you do mean seven finger-lakes (although I hear there are 
really eleven) and five great lakes? Do most people really know about 
the finger lakes? My dad spent summers there as a boy, otherwise I 
don't think I'd know about them.

I do heartily agree with you about the necessity of basic education.
My kids are still being taught penmanship, and are memorizing their 
multiplication tables (that was out of "vogue" for a while, but 
parent's complaints that kids couldn't do simple arithmetic brought 
it back). 

Okay, here's trivia..who knows how to parse a sentence?

Susan