Eighth Grade Education circa - 1895 - - (long)

[kempermentor]

> Steve:
> This is one of those emails that is bouncing around from person 
> to person, but I thought it was interesting. This is an actual
> 8th grade final exam taken from the historical archives in 
> Kansas.
> 
> I thought Orthography was particularly interesting in that I've
> never heard of Orthography before, and if I had to have guessed,
> I would have said it was the study of birds.
> 
> As you can see, time allotted for the test was FIVE HOURS. 
> 
> Finally, remember this is 8th grade. ...snip...


Kemper now:
I'm not really impressed by the test.  I had to learn similar things
except for orthography, which I would've said was bone-pictures but
seems more akin to linguistics (sort of), as well as Kansas... though
I had an ear and eye full of Nevada, the most vile state in the Union.
 Plus, I had to learn life science, world history, algebra, intro to
lit and P.E. ...Okay, I didn't learn PE, but I spent time resenting
it.  I could've been reading!

Kemper