> > > Hmm. I never went to third grade, which, by all accounts, is the year in which they taught *everything.* This explains why I'm such a moron, as can be seen at the beginning of theis message.
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> > actually, i didn't learn anything in 3rd grade... my teacher was awful. i don't remember a thing from that class.... then there was the 2nd grade teacher that made us read Things Fall Apart....
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> Say I was just thinking about "Things Fall Apart" by Chinua Achebe the other day... You read it in Grade TWO!? Would that be the 2nd year of high school or elementary school? I liked the linear and vivid way in which TFA was written -- but I read that in the 1st-year-equivalent of college, not elementary school. TFA is NOT material for 9-yr-olds...
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> Another thing I've always wondered about is why on earth the "Lord of the Flies", an overextended exercise in depraved cynicism, is required reading at the high school level. I mean, come on... Is there anything actually *redeeming* about that book that you couldn't pick up better from, say, "Animal Farm" by Orwell, or simply Genesis for that matter?
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> > uni"everything i need to know i learned at home"peg
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> I've learned a lot by checking out article references in the newspaper. But who's "de vere", unipeg?
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> Wolfspirit

that's 2nd grade in elementary school. i was 7. don't ask me, it was very VERY sad... bad teacher... but in the wrong sort of way.

Edward de Vere was a Duke who a lot of people think wrote Shakespeare... and after doing a history paper on the subject, i agree wtih them... i'm not going to put all the reasons here, though...

uni"unless someone actually CARES..."peg