OzarkCat
Greenie
- Mar 9, 2016
- 13
- 11
- Detector(s) used
- Garrett GTI 2500 Pro and Garrett Ace 250
- Primary Interest:
- All Treasure Hunting
Austin in Texas, is right about the states only being concerned with the "test". In Arkansas it is the "Bench Mark Test" it seems to be less about the educational material and more about the way the test questions are worded and how they are answered. When scores are returned, the parents get a readout of percentages, the percentage of students in the same age range that did better and the percentage that did worse than your child. When I attended school (long ago) it wasn't just in an English class that spelling mattered, words had to be spelled correctly in all classes be it History, Science or any other subject but that was not the case for my children. I taught my children how to "count back" change, even though it isn't needed with computerized registers. There are so many things that have changed in a short period of time. A telephone that confines you to an area by a cord is an odd concept to my grandchildren, just as a turntable and vinyl albums were odd to my children.
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