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spongebob
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 Posted: 11/20/02 - 16:58 Post subject: please support runswithscissors
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runswithscissors
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Posted: 11/20/02 - 17:04 Post subject:
Are you listening to NPR right now, too?
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jrjo
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Posted: 11/20/02 - 17:19 Post subject: great job security
No sudden oversupply of competitors for your job Rando!
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Sahara
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Posted: 11/20/02 - 17:27 Post subject:
So 13% of Americans could find Iraq and only 10% could find the good ole USofA?
| Quote: | | One in 10 young Americans could not locate his own country on a blank map of the world, a survey of geographic literacy shows. Only 13 percent could find Iraq. |
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prohemp
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Posted: 11/20/02 - 17:29 Post subject:
 our future is in good hands I hope i die before i get old
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copteacher
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Posted: 11/20/02 - 17:33 Post subject:
thanks randy for being on the front lines of the map stuff everyday
for making us maps and stuff like that
let's all hear it for randy
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prohemp
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Posted: 11/20/02 - 17:35 Post subject:
| rtpd113 wrote: | thanks randy for being on the front lines of the map stuff everyday
for making us maps and stuff like that
let's all hear it for randy |
but what good are they when kids can't even read them
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runswithscissors
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Posted: 11/20/02 - 17:37 Post subject:
Well, they do have pretty colors. Kids like pretty colors.
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prohemp
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Posted: 11/20/02 - 17:38 Post subject:
| runswithscissors wrote: | | Well, they do have pretty colors. Kids like pretty colors. |
make more of the rubber -mat-type where the streets are wider so they can roll their play cars on them
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omega lambda
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Posted: 11/20/02 - 17:44 Post subject:
Teaching geography isn't nearly as important as teaching our children the answers to the standardized tests. 
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Sandy Cheeks
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Posted: 11/20/02 - 18:06 Post subject:
That's very scary.
If you took all the stupid people in the country and put them all in California, we'd sink into the Atlantic ocean for sure!
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rolling rock
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Posted: 11/20/02 - 18:38 Post subject:
apparently, they didn't bring their map to our district. we're all genuises.
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Floridaboiler
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Posted: 11/20/02 - 20:27 Post subject:
I would love to try the test!
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runaroundsue
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Posted: 11/20/02 - 20:40 Post subject:
I was just watching National Geographic Today, before logging on. It was giving out stats about how bad our geography skills are. They said that 80% of Americans knew that Al Queda's ties were in Afghanistan but only 1 in 4 could locate Afg. on a map........more pathetic
Foreigners scored more accurately as to knowing the correct population of the US.....most Americans believe our population is over a billion.
sue
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Cappy
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Posted: 11/20/02 - 20:47 Post subject:
and most foreigners and those from other countries can speak English as well as there native language. Kids here in the US can barely speak English and its their only language.
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