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    Re: Standardized tests (was: Yummy!) —Christopher L. Weeks
   I'm snipping here and there... (...) I wish the market would verify that. (...) problems (...) This last attribute is under-understood and under-emphasized in my opinion. I think the single most important thing that parents can do for their (...) (24 years ago, 7-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
   
        Re: Standardized tests (was: Yummy!) —Kevin Wilson
     (...) Ditto. Of course, the trouble with having exams etc come easy (relatively), is that at some point one reaches a subject or chunk of knowledge which requires you to WORK to understand it... andfor me at least, I'd never learned to. Took me (...) (24 years ago, 7-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
    
         Re: Standardized tests (was: Yummy!) —Larry Pieniazek
     (...) Meee tooooo! And thank goodness, I say. For if I had been able to figure out how to use those in reaction rate and heat transfer problems I would have gotten my Chemical Engineering degree instead of flagging P-Chem and taking up computers (...) (24 years ago, 8-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
   
        Re: Standardized tests (was: Yummy!) —Larry Pieniazek
   (...) and (...) Maybe it's just a gut feeling we had, but we only went from 3.5 years to just before Kindergarten started in both cases. I think the value of Montessori lessens as the child ages, we saw it more as a booster to give our kids a (...) (24 years ago, 8-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
   
        kids schooling (was :Re: Standardized tests (was: Yummy!)) —Christopher L. Weeks
   In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Larry Pieniazek writes: [regarding Montessori] (...) I did Montessori as a kid. I discovered that public school existed a few weeks after my first grade year started and begged my folks[1] to let me go there instead. They (...) (24 years ago, 8-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
   
        Re: kids schooling (was :Re: Standardized tests (was: Yummy!)) —Larry Pieniazek
   (...) Parse error alert: "they" has an ambiguous antecedent. Parents or Montessori? (arguably must be Montessori, since the method can't speak to parent level of abuse, so you can't say it's not part of the method) (...) If I could afford it, I (...) (24 years ago, 8-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
 

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