8th grade class of 1895 final exam from Salina, Kansas

[rudder]

Originally posted by: rocadelpunk
I could come up with any number of things that my current 8th graders do which no one from 1895 would be able to do.

send eachother nude pics on their cellphones?

 

[PlasmaBomb]

Originally posted by: JTsyo

Originally posted by: gar3555
I happen to live in Salina Kansas, granted I didn't live there in 1895, but i did some sleuthing:

Actual Smokey Valley Genealogical Society

main page

Good info here.

RULES FOR TEACHERS
1872


1. Teachers each day will fill lamps, clean chimneys.
2. Each teacher will bring a bucket of water and a scuttle of coal for the day?s session.
3. Make your pens carefully. You may whittle nibs to the individual taste of the pupils.
4. Men teachers may take one evening each week for courting purposes, or two evenings a week if they go to church regularly.
5. After ten hours in school, the teachers may spend the remaining time reading the Bible or other good books.
6. Women teachers who marry or engage in unseemly conduct will be dismissed.
7. Every teacher should lay aside from each pay a goodly sum of his earnings for his benefit during his declining years so that he will not become a burden on society.
8. Any teacher who smokes, uses liquor in any form, frequents pool or public halls, or gets shaved in a barber shop will give good reason to suspect his worth, intention, integrity and honesty.
9. The teacher who performs his labor faithfully and without fault for five years will be given an increase of twenty-five cents per week in his pay, providing the Board of Education approves

This makes it sound that the teachers lived in the school. I like the part where they threw in getting shaved at the barber shop as a vice.

I like the way christians get an extra night for courting if they go to church regularily...

 

[zebano]

Originally posted by: spunkz
snopes doesn't say it's a fake test, just that they don't think it proves the drastic decline of education standards

Kudos to you sir. I thought I was the only one who actually read the article.

 

[zebano]

Originally posted by: darkxshade

Originally posted by: lxskllr

Originally posted by: spunkz
snopes doesn't say it's a fake test, just that they don't think it proves the drastic decline of education standards

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I have no idea what Orthography is but it probably wasn't important enough and got replaced by foreign language.

Answer.