Could You Have Passed the 8th Grade in 1895?

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haha dont think os george! i just wonder if the teachers of today could too. haha doubt it! or hte kids. that,s a whole lot to chew! and time wise, not very much fer the kids back then to do it in. had to do math in your head too. and we even still we,re learnin to do it in our heads when i was a kid, you member??? dividin addin subtractin.multiplyin/ kids have computers to be doin it fer em today. or them hand held ones. i learned cliff the old way so, he,d know how i wouldnt allow him to use one;. teacher got hot. but when it come to havin to know the answer right off, cliff was right there with it. before them with the computer. and checkin his answers, too. from bottom to top/ but this is somethin. think the kids learned more bout there state, as fer as doin basics and survival and knowin the prices and how to do the math so nobody took advantage of em. could be a framer store keeper, whatever. it was more just the basics, math readin writin and there ways of life. that,s more important than the bull they put on the kids nowdays.too much, i,ve seen where some kids have to go back to school, summer school cause they cant even read very good. and there in high school. who,s fault is that. the teachers just keep passin em cause they dont want ot deal with it, git there favorites that pick it up quick and to -- with the ones that need the extrie hep. this stinks. paychecks. what it boils down to. i member mr. ryan heppin me in math after school, i,d go to his house and he,d hep me. he wa strict but a damn good teacher and principal, and nobody give him any crap./ he give me lotta hours and his time, and didnt even git paid fer it, he cared bout me, i was dislexic and nobody knew what that was back then too, and cliff was, and they found it out by then, i didnt even have any idea, ma either, what was goin on. that,s when ya see stuff backwards, but he loved me too.enough to take the time with me, good ol guy. that,s when there was teachers. ways back when. and there respect fer em too. i know i wont fergit him.
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