Red and Rover by Brian Basset for October 04, 2010

He put a lot of thought into that answer. Makes sense, too!

I know some social studies teachers that will get a kick out of this.

Red’s the new Skylar.

That goes along with my 5-year-old’s favorite joke lately:

Q: What’s the first letter of the alphabet? A: T!

amerigo vespucci

That reminds me of an English test that I had where I was supposed to use words correctly in a sentence. I did the whole test using sentences such as…

Run is used as a noun in this sentence. Needless to say, my teacher was not amused.

No wonder why are students are lagging behind the rest of the world

Maybe it’s because they don’t know the difference between “are” and “our”. (that was just too easy to not say anything)

cleo Why? It’s correct.

Try parsing Greek.

defeat of deduct went over defence before detail.

Why not blame a teacher and the education departments, as well? Too may teachers today teach to a test, in part the legacy of “no child left behind”. They do not have the time to instruct today”s children nor do they have the backbone to stand up to the “educators” and tell them that the educators are wrong. Education is no longer a learning process in many schools. It is making sure that that X% of students in Grade Y pass test after test. How can children learn under such circumstances? I have some school books that were used in the NYC schools during the 1880 and 1890’s, with all the “advances” in education these 120 years or so I do not think today’s school children could pass a test from these books. Yet my grandfather and his brothers and sisters all managed to learn from these books; they graduated elementary and high school. My grandfather went on to graduate from college in 4 years, as did my mother and me. Somehow, we learned, why isn’t that possible today?

It was named after Julius Caesar. ‘bout 1500 years after, to be precise