Re: OT: baloney and cheese

Not only can I tell you a bit about the Civil War, like the president and
who was what and why and when (and I haven't even covered it yet), but I
can pick out Lithuania and Switzerland blindfolded, recite a list of most
of the major American wars, and spell (and give basic information about)
McKinley correctly.
And I'm not even a junior yet.

I love being homeschooled. *g*

Really, my friends had a foreign exchange student from Lithuania staying at
their house, and he was quizzing us on geography, and I even got the -stans
right!

But... it's sad public/private schoolers are so... dumb. Sorry to phrase it
like that, and I know I sound rather holier-than-thou, but most of
the /normal/ ones just have no desire to learn. I don't blame anyone for
not wanting to learn in a public school -- and now I could start my long
unschool-John Holt-"people are not trains" ramble, but for the sake of
brevity and my own image, I won't.


-- Erin Notagain --
i iz homskuld




>You really must tell us how it went.  It'll be like Jay Leno but without
the
>camera.  And I lost my faith in the level of informative-ness demonstrated
>by anyone in the United States the day I read about the survey of American
>high school seniors who were unable to correctly place the US Civil War in
>the correct *century* (or tie the war with the correct US president).  I
>don't expect everyone to know where Lithuania is (as a point of fact, not
>only did NO ONE in my geography class -- apart from the three other people
>who worked on my final project with me and the teacher himself -- know
where
>Lithuania was, fully a third were unsure whether it was a country or not),
>or to remember all the names of the Presidents from McKinnley forward (even
>I have trouble with everyone between JQ Adams and Lincoln, and then again
>from Grant to McKinnley, and I'm a US History major) but come ON.  The wars
>are kind of obvious, and it wasn't even a hard war.  Not that there are
that
>many... I mean, the War of 1812 is more or less self-explanatory.
>
>Anyhow, I have no faith in the American public.  So, we'll see.
>
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>
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>Of course, I also don't expect anyone to know how to spell McKinley's name.
>But that's only because apparently *I* can't spell his name.  I have an
>excuse though; I lived in McKinney, Texas, for a while.  It warped my
brain.
>Honest.

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