http://e-popp.com/blogs/monique/archives/2005/04/13/203/ 'Cause she says what she means and she means what she says Thu, 09 Sep 2010 12:53:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 http://e-popp.com/blogs/monique/archives/2005/04/13/203/comment-page-1/#comment-467 Kate Sat, 16 Apr 2005 18:46:10 +0000 http://e-popp.com/blogs/monique_wp/?p=203#comment-467 When I worked at the mortuary, we had 2 recent graduates of the CA school system and neither of them could correctly identify who Robert E. Lee was, who wrote the Guettysburg Address or which war Pearl Harbor is associated with (and this was when the movie had just come out)... one of them never even heard of Robert E. Lee and the other at least said he was some "Civil War Captian Dude. Close. One of them attribued the Guettysburg address to Martin Luther King, Jr. YIKES! Yes, something needs to be done there, but I'll be damned if I know what it is. Aaron struggled in math when we moved back to Van Buren (not exactly a place known for raising mathematical geniuses, mind you) because so many students couldn't read, the administrators decided to leave math on the back-burner until the 2nd grade and let the kids read 80% of their day... forget social studies, science or anything else. The scary part was that we seemed to be the only parents concerned about this... the only other concern we heard at the open house was that there wasn't an acting program... YIKES! When I worked at the mortuary, we had 2 recent graduates of the CA school system and neither of them could correctly identify who Robert E. Lee was, who wrote the Guettysburg Address or which war Pearl Harbor is associated with (and this was when the movie had just come out)… one of them never even heard of Robert E. Lee and the other at least said he was some “Civil War Captian Dude. Close. One of them attribued the Guettysburg address to Martin Luther King, Jr. YIKES! Yes, something needs to be done there, but I’ll be damned if I know what it is. Aaron struggled in math when we moved back to Van Buren (not exactly a place known for raising mathematical geniuses, mind you) because so many students couldn’t read, the administrators decided to leave math on the back-burner until the 2nd grade and let the kids read 80% of their day… forget social studies, science or anything else. The scary part was that we seemed to be the only parents concerned about this… the only other concern we heard at the open house was that there wasn’t an acting program… YIKES!

]]> http://e-popp.com/blogs/monique/archives/2005/04/13/203/comment-page-1/#comment-466 Monique Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://e-popp.com/blogs/monique_wp/?p=203#comment-466 I expected at least a comment on this one from Arlen... I expected at least a comment on this one from Arlen…

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