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Scott Ferrin wrote in message
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Key phrase : "as far as her seventh-grade
teacher has been able to ascertain."

I believe education majors in universities have the lowest SAT
scores of any field other than physical education.

Yeah, but being able to graduate college should mean you have a firm
understanding of things like subtraction.

To be fair to teachers, when I was in the 8th grade (1962), a science
teacher had no idea why I couldn't spin a magnet up in a vacuum, inside a
coil and extract unlimited energy from it.

That said, the bar for education majors is set very, very low and still they
can't clear it. NY City announced that they were firing 3000 teachers who
couldn't pass the (10th grade level) competency test after as many as 12
tries. One flunky protested that the test covered things that were
inapplicable to what she did in a classroom.