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I’ll let you decide. Here is an 8th grade final exam from Salina, Kansas, from 1895, which, according to the Washington Post (Here’s the famous 1895 eighth-grade test from Kansas), resides in the Smoky Valley Genealogical Society and Library in Salina:Grammar (Time, one hour)1. Give nine rules for the use of Capital Letters.2. Name the Parts of Speech and define those that have no modifications.3. Define Verse, Stanza and Paragraph.4. What are the Principal Parts of a verb? Give Principal Parts of do, lie, lay and run.5. Define Case, Illustrate each Case.6. What is Punctuation? Give rules for principal marks of Punctuation.7-10. Write a composition of about 150 words and show therein that you understand the practical use of the rules of grammar.Arithmetic (Time, 1.25 hours)1. Name and define the Fundamental Rules of Arithmetic.2. A wagon box is 2 ft. deep, 10 feet long, and 3 ft. wide. How many bushels of wheat will it hold?3. If a load of wheat weighs 3942 lbs., what is it worth at 50 cts. per bu, deducting 1050 lbs. for tare?4. District No. 33 has a valuation of $35,000. What is the necessary levy to carry on a school seven months at $50 per month, and have $104 for incidentals?5. Find cost of 6720 lbs. coal at $6.00 per ton.6. Find the interest of $512.60 for 8 months and 18 days at 7 percent.7. What is the cost of 40 boards 12 inches wide and 16 ft. long at $.20 per inch?8. Find bank discount on $300 for 90 days (no grace) at 10 percent.9. What is the cost of a square farm at $15 per acre, the distance around which is 640 rods?10. Write a Bank Check, a Promissory Note, and a Receipt.U.S. History (Time, 45 minutes)1. Give the epochs into which U.S. History is divided.2. Give an account of the discovery of America by Columbus.3. Relate the causes and results of the Revolutionary War.4. Show the territorial growth of the United States.5. Tell what you can of the history of Kansas.6. Describe three of the most prominent battles of the Rebellion.7. Who were the following: Morse, Whitney, Fulton, Bell, Lincoln, Penn, and Howe?8. Name events connected with the following dates: 1607, 1620, 1800, 1849, and 1865?Orthography (Time, one hour)1. What is meant by the following: Alphabet, phonetic orthography, etymology, syllabication?2. What are elementary sounds? How classified?3. What are the following, and give examples of each: Trigraph, subvocals, diphthong, cognate letters, linguals?4. Give four substitutes for caret 'u'.5. Give two rules for spelling words with final 'e'. Name two exceptions under each rule.6. Give two uses of silent letters in spelling. Illustrate each.7. Define the following prefixes and use in connection with a word: Bi, dis, mis, pre, semi, post, non, inter, mono, super.8. Mark diacritically and divide into syllables the following, and name the sign that indicates the sound: Card, ball, mercy, sir, odd, cell, rise, blood, fare, last.9. Use the following correctly in sentences, Cite, site, sight, fane, fain, feign, vane, vain, vein, raze, raise, rays.10. Write 10 words frequently mispronounced and indicate pronunciation by use of diacritical marks and by syllabication.Geography (Time, one hour)1. What is climate? Upon what does climate depend?2. How do you account for the extremes of climate in Kansas?3. Of what use are rivers? Of what use is the ocean?4. Describe the mountains of N.A.5. Name and describe the following: Monrovia, Odessa, Denver, Manitoba, Hecla, Yukon, St. Helena, Juan Fernandez, Aspinwall and Orinoco.6. Name and locate the principal trade centers of the U.S.7. Name all the republics of Europe and give capital of each.8. Why is the Atlantic Coast colder than the Pacific in the same latitude?9. Describe the process by which the water of the ocean returns to the sources of rivers.10. Describe the movements of the earth. Give inclination of the earth.Biology (Time, one hour)1. Where are the saliva, gastric juice, and bile secreted? What is the use of each in digestion?2. How does nutrition reach the circulation?3. What is the function of the liver? Of the kidneys?4. How would you stop the flow of blood from an artery in the case of laceration?5. Give some general directions that you think would be beneficial to preserve the human body in a state of health.UPDATE:I’ve gotten a number of interesting comments in response to my post, which was not unexpected. Several people have suggested that the test I posted was a hoax, or a teacher’s exam, not a student exam, so I thought it would be good to edit my original answer to add a citation in the first paragraph above. I don’t intend to travel to Salina, Kansas, to personally inspect the archives, so that is the extent of my due diligence. For those of you who remain skeptical about how representative this exam was, here are references for two similar exams from early in the 20th century which suggest that the 1895 test was not atypical of education a century or so ago:Smithsonian Magazine - Bullitt County, Kentucky, 1912 8th Grade Exam: No, You’re Probably Not Smarter Than a 1912-Era 8th GraderWashington Post - West Va. Dept. of Free Schools, 1931 “Elementary Diploma Test: Take this 1931 8th grade test (you will probably flunk)UPDATE TWO:There have been a number of comments (on Quora and in the links to the other tests I provided) that these tests from a century ago don't demonstrate how educated one is because much of the content is simply being able to recall and list facts, rather than demonstrate critical thinking. I would suggest that many of the test questions are open-ended and require articulating a coherent response that is judged by the teacher for sufficiency (and not a true-false, or multiple choice response/guess). Beyond that, I would also suggest that being able to recall facts is often one of the first requirements for making a convincing argument, particularly in current times where some argue for the existence and validity of "alternative facts." Further, if you believe that mastery of facts and ability to recall them is not an indication of what it means to be educated, reflect on that as you review the results of these recent tests given to the American public.1.) Knowledge of facts about civics, from the annual Annenberg Constitution Day Civics Survey, 2017: The Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania – Americans Are Poorly Informed About Basic Constitutional ProvisionsHighlights:-More than half of Americans (53 percent) incorrectly think it is accurate to say that immigrants who are here illegally do not have any rights under the U.S. Constitution-More than a third of those surveyed (37 percent) can’t name any of the rights guaranteed under the First Amendment-Only a quarter of Americans (26 percent) can name all three branches of government.2.) Here are results in 2012 from the AEI Program on American Citizenship on how well Americans did on the citizenship test required of immigrants: Americans failing Citizenship test againHighlights:-Over 97% of immigrants passed the mandatory test. Only 2/3 of regular American citizens could pass:85% did not know the meaning of the “the rule of law.”82% could not name “two rights stated in the Declaration of Independence.”75% were not able to correctly answer “What does the judiciary branch do?”71% were unable to identify the Constitution as the “supreme law of the land.”68% did not know how many justices are on the Supreme Court.63% could not name one of their two US Senators.3.) Some have expressed the opinion that the math in these historic 8th grade tests is rather basic, for example, computing interest rates. In light of that, consider this article from 2016 in Fortune magazine concerning basic financial literacy in the U.S.: Nearly Two-Thirds of Americans Can't Pass a Basic Test of Financial LiteracyHighlight:-Nearly two thirds of Americans can’t calculate interest payments correctly. About a third said they didn’t even know how.

you really need to word questions so they are understandable and not use slang or accusational. you asked: how do they figure the amount of child support in california for a father living in kansas on three kids.. misunderstandingsL 1. HOW do they figure the amount of child support in cal for a father… ok,, is the child living in kansas or cal? for the fqther.. as payer or recipient? on three kids.. once again… is he the debtor or recipient? and is the courts in cal or ks the state with the court case? so, if the case originated in california and then the father with three children ended up living in kansas and he is the custodial parent and mother is the non custodial parent, they would have the case stay active in the california system for family law. there are usually set guidelines on how much to consider the obligation to be, and the cal court will order the non custodial parent to be responsible for xxx amount of childsupport, collected by californial child support payment center and recorded there as paid., and cal will send it to the kansas child support payment center to be disbursed to the custodial parent as 50.00 regardless of how much is ordered to be the obligation amount,, IF the custodial parent is recieving any type of state public aid. the rest of the amount paid for the month is kept be the child support office to repay the assistance the family is getting. now, if the custodial parent is not getting public assistance,,, then,,(but dont quote me here because i am not for sure) when the state of cal collects the child support obligation they are the ones who will send the child support disbursement to the custodial parent and kansas will be totally taken out of the picture.since child support people and state assistance offices have different procedures, policys and rules every time you turn around, and most are diferent for different people depending on who is being dealt with and who is dealing with them, i would definately recommend that rules and procedures are checked as to hows and whys every few months to make sure they arent all going to comeback later to tell you its all been done wrong, with hands out for you to repay something.. But dont worry about needing to keep any type of personal records or anything… if they are in the mood to throw out such accusations, then they will also provide documents and records that match their claims… and if you have your own records and they dont match the claims of the state.. just burn them.. use them for the toilet paper that they are good for… the only thing they will be good for… and shut up and pay…

“What if Trump was elected in 2008, would his policies have had helped the US recover faster and better than Obama’s policies?”The mood of the Republican party at the time of the Bush Crash was one of extreme austerity. Every Republican propaganda organ trumped austerity, and would brook no Keynesian intervention.In fact, a number of states underwent austerity regimes between 2009 and 2015, together with tax cuts and other incentives. Every state which embraced austerity took longer and recovered more slowly than those which did not. The best example is Kansas, of course, which executed severe tax cuts while cutting government and suspending regulation. Virtually the entire Trumpian program, encapsulated.In the end, Kansas NEARLY COLLAPSED after cutting welfare, transportation, health care and education. Even an austerity government could not raise enough tax revenue to offset costs and debt. It paralleled precisely the debt spiral that Greece found itself in. In 2017 the Republican Kansas legislature finally rebelled and raised corporate taxes to try to bring sanity back to the state.Now imagine a US economy headed by Trump in 2009, with 800,000 jobs per month being lost, a party hostile to the Fed and unwilling to spend anything to salvage the economy. If you’ll recall, Treasury Secretary Paulson came to Congress in late 2008 and begged them to create a $trillion-dollar fund to save the US - and world - financial structure, whose collapse was imminent.On inauguration day, 2009, the economy was in free-fall. The financial world was in full-fledged panic. Markets had already collapsed by half and would fall another half in the next two months. Most people who had relied on 401k’s were eviscerated; over the next year many of those targeted investment funds, components of the 401k world, would collapse and merge.Banks refused to lend money to other banks overnight. They could not be guaranteed the security of those funds, even through the Fed. Lending to business froze. Any business which relied on credit or forward sales of receivables to make month-end payroll faced immediate closure. That’s why layoffs were increasing, not decreasing.Counterparty risk was at the root of the financial failure: the hundreds of $trillions in derivatives all looked to someone backing them when they matured. The biggest of these was AIG. The potential for counterparty failure in 2009 dwarfed all the bad things that had happened so far - and threatened to throw the world so deeply into debt that it could never have emerged. We’re talking about many multiples of global GDP.Over the next three years, seemingly every corporation cut its dividends. Investors, retirees and pensioners dependent on those payouts were cut off at the knees.So here’s the thing. Let’s say Trump comes in and does his tax cut thing. So absurdly and totally ineffective that it’s just gas on the fire. I mean, even more absurdly ineffective than it is today. At the same time, he castrates government and with his new Republican congress goes full-bore into austerity mode. Hits the ‘consultant’ community hard, rolls back minimum wage on everyone else. The federal government lays off a million workers; state governments are forced to lay off millions more.[In fact, the austerity states did lay off hundreds of thousands, mostly education employees, in an effort to (a) stymie Obama’s success and (b) cripple government unions. They took a full point off national GDP in doing so, and eventually legislated successfully against union power. Which is holding down wages today, even under full employment.]The global financial panic intensifies. Business lending evaporates. Half the business in the country disappears; the other half teeters. The world follows suit. Due to losses, virtually no business owes or pays tax in 2009, 2010, or 2011. Or 2012. Or 2013. By the beginning of 2010, the government has no national income with which to offset the national debt, and enters its debt spiral. It tries to offset by issuing Treasuries, which eventually fail. The government cancels all payments for medical and senior and welfare aid. The over-65 population is immediately thrown out onto the street. Widespread hunger and sickness envelopes the bottom half of the population. Hospitals close everywhere. Senior, assisted living and nursing homes collapse. No city can afford to maintain a public hospital; private hospitals disappear, with the entire medical support network. Maternal and infant mortality rise to third-world levels, even higher than in Texas today.The world goes into complete financial and economic collapse within a year. Virtually anyone in the US who owes a mortgage, defaults. Banks collapse everywhere; most cities are deserts. Depository banks, no longer subject to the regulatory restrictions of Glass-Steagall, collapse en masse as their investment portfolio losses overwhelm their depository obligations. Deregulation is a fine thing, isn’t it?Obama, in contrast, nationalized GM’s employment and risk. (Over loud Republican opposition.) Then he nationalized AIG and its counterparty risk. (Over extreme Republican opposition.) Then he nationalized Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and eliminated the counterparty risk on their mortgage portfolios (overcoming implacable Republican opposition and a chorus of NO’s). He worked TARP and stimulus programs through Congress, supported and rescued business wherever possible. He put money into taxpayer’s hands. Republicans hated, hated, hated that.Meanwhile, Bernanke began a program of rescuing banking systems around the world, exploding the Fed’s asset base and practically forcing banks to resume interbank lending. Even Europe, after years of unsuccessful austerity that was doomed to cost them the entire southern tier of nations, began to follow suit after the US rescued D-bank and numerous others.The two succeeded, by mid-March of 2009, in halting the bleeding due to financial panic. The markets turned around (after most portfolios had lost 75% of their value) and peaked quickly through 2011, recouping a big share of the loss.In 2008–12, Republicans were all about austerity, applauding European and Red State efforts to slough off the dead weight of bad business so that new shoots could appear. But they didn’t. Spain, Italy and Greece were being written off. Kansas was on the verge of debt implosion and Louisiana under Jindal wasn’t far behind. Even a decade after the Crash, few of the Red State austerity economies have come roaring back the way the Blue State economies did.So the likelihood is that, in the US, city centers would be plagued today by extreme hunger, sickness and poverty, with most of their taxable realty vacant (foreclosures began trailing off around 2014, lagging the employment crisis).The likelihood is that authoritarian states, like Russia, would be the most powerful reconstructed countries in the world, dictating to third-world countries like the US.So, yes, we still have that.[Edit: it is true that the GSE’s were placed into conservatorship in early Sept of 2008, placing $1 Billion in senior preferreds plus warrants for nearly 80% of the stock in Treasury hands - against a $5 Trillion liability. Whatever you may call it, Treasury effectively owned the GSE’s at that point. Virtually every GOP organ screamed in anger. Obama spent the next five years working to recapitalize the GSE’s and ensure that any subsequent liability was a private, not public, responsibility. I suspect Trump would have taken the opposite course, immediately selling the Treasury assets and letting the GSE’s float to whatever harbor, if any, would receive them.The Treasury release at the time whined that action was taken because “ambiguities in their Congressional charters created a perception of government backing” (Treasury Office of Public Affairs release, Sept 7, 2008).GSE mortgage securities were held in the asset vaults of banks all over the world. They were the basis for slice ’n’ dice derivatives written against them, and derivatives written against them, and so on. When the world discovered that the CDO’s and CMO’s they had in their vaults were NOT truly AAA-rated, a few hearts stopped beating. The potential liabilities were simply breathtaking.It was during that September that the word “Trillion” first became associated with dollar amounts, and liabilities, in common parlance.][Edit 2: The package passed in October of 2008 was Paulson’s desperation package. It gave him $700 billion to add to bank reserves. He was able to force those reserves into the banks in exchange for some of their deeply-soiled assets. The assumption was that it would be used for lending. However, nearly all of it sat as cash in bank vaults, never to be filtered out to businesses gasping for it. It was thought that $700B would be a huge stimulus - but it landed on the financial floor with a thud, and was scorned by the right as a “bailout”.Following the absorption of the principal market-makers into the nation’s top-tier banks, nothing really improved. The country was in the midst of the worst credit freeze it had seen in a century, a crisis which had begun in the middle of 2007. The stock market, which began its crash in September, collapsed with grim losses through the end of the year. Debt instruments were laughable as regulators were about to connect rating agencies and woodsheds. Auction-rate preferreds, which relied on monthly auctions, received no bids - and that market utterly disappeared along with the huge dollar financing it represented.In September, 2008, a money market fund - the Reserve Primary Fund - petrified the financial and consumer worlds. It “broke the buck”, with an NAV of only 97 cents. MMFs are the staple for parking loose change, the safest of the safe in short-term money. But they were no longer safe. In October, 2008, nothing was safe. Nothing. For instance, in April, 2008, oil had broken $120. Ten months later, WTI crude listed at $34. Strong people wept.In early 2009, Obama was able to obtain an $800B package that he did wield as stimulus, though its application stretched through his term.]