School
Miss Sally Edwards is a highly esteemed third grade teacher at Mercer County Elementary School.
In an effort to prepare her students for the all-important test, she compiled an exam consisting of 20 questions, which she administered to her class last Tuesday. The exam purposely covered a broad array of topics.
I call your attention to question # 11, which simply read:
LIST, IN ANY ORDER, THE FOUR SEASONS:
1. ________ 2. ________ 3.________ 4. ________
Now, could you possibly imagine that 67% of the students gave the following answer?
1. SQUIRREL SEASON
2. DEER SEASON
3. RABBIT SEASON
4. UK BASKETBALL SEASON
God Bless Kentucky….
Share a little humor from your childhood school days!
September 8th, 2009 at 5:15 pm
Re the President’s address to school children: I remember JFK’s push on fitness…anybody else remember The President’s Council on Physical Fitness????, and I think it was a good thing.
There is nothing wrong with any leader encouraging children to work hard and stay in school.
I do think this administration, however, is building a track record that does not promote trust. Look at Rangel, a tax cheat, in charge of tax law, and the list of tax evaders hired by this administration goes on and on. I have always thought you should demonstrate what you believe in your actions. Thus, what I wonder, is whether this “good speech” is a way to repair the damage done by other mistakes of this admin, or worse, distract us from the liberal health care debacle. Wake up, people. Don’t assume a good speech means good motives.
September 2nd, 2009 at 10:13 pm
At our little school the parents just pay us up front and we order everything the children will need for the school year. Alot less stress for everyone.
Re: college, I think it’s funny that, Freshman year, our kids took huge amounts of crap, but by Senior year, there were two or three plastic bins and that was it…they didn’t need that shower caddy after all! Who knew?!?
August 19th, 2009 at 9:48 am
I’m so glad I’m not back to school shopping. Every time I’ve walked into WalMart the last couple of weeks, I’ve seen the moms (rarely the dads) with their very long school supply lists and whiney kids looking for just the right notebooks, school glue and scissors.
I always wondered…where is all the tax money going? As I remember, I used to take a pencil and a pad of paper on the first day of school. Everything else was provided. Now parents have to provide everything down to the kleenex and hand sanitizers.
I’m also glad I’m not hauling a kid off to college…car loaded with plastic boxes filled with dorm and school supplies. Seemed move in day always fell on the hottest day of August. Freshman year I was so involved…feathering my child’s desk. By the time their senior years came around I had learned my lesson and parked myself on the bed and provided moral support and cold drinks while they moved themselves in. They were gonna rearrange the room after I left anyway.
Now school time rolls around and though I do sort of miss the kindergarten days of homemade Christmas gifts and school programs, for the most part it is such a relief that all that is over. Maybe by the time the grandkids come along, I’ll want to be all involved in the whole scene again. But, only in the fun parts!
August 14th, 2009 at 12:20 pm
Parents and teachers live in “Opposite World”. Parents want school to begin again soonsoonsoon, and teachers wish summer break could last forever…
June 27th, 2009 at 11:22 pm
Here’s my boomer comment about school.
I don’t like summer vacation, spring break or fall break because that means all those noisy crumb crunchers are taking up space in the local pool, screaming their heads off at the grocery and WalMart at all hours of the day and running up and down the road on their four-wheelers and scooters and otherwise making noise in the neighborhood.
This grumpy old woman will be glad when school starts again.
June 15th, 2009 at 7:16 pm
To stop learning is to beg for the “A” word.