Klarinet Archive - Posting 000703.txt from 2000/04

From: "Michael Byerly" <jjhugo@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] good beginner books
Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2000 03:35:42 -0400

Jim Hobby wrote:

>Artificial statistics. It's easy to do, when you consider that the
>knowledge base of
>a high school graduate today is roughly the same as an eighth grade
>graduate
>in
>the sixties. Most students today cannot read. Even the better students
>read poorly,
>thanks to the reducation of standards in public schools...

It's nice to know that, back in the sixties, eighth-graders knew calculus
and college-level chemistry, as I do now as a high school senior. Funny
that I didn't learn that fact in my AP US History class. Also, I see that I
and all other students on this mailing list are poor readers, another fact
of which I was not previously aware. Thanks for your post.

-Michael Byerly
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