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Totally stunned: SAT Essay Question about "Reality Television"
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This is it, America is truly falling apart. And me and my wife were JUST talking about the failing education system last night. The reason we got on that topic was after realizing one of her "Vocabulary" words for english 101 was "Kestrel". A european Falcon, Why in the world is this an important vocabulary word? Cant wait to use that word on my next job interview. anyway "Some high school students were totally stressed out by an essay question on last weekend's SAT. It didn't prompt test takers to write about D-Day or Dickens, but rather, reality television. " [ link to theweek.com] There's an American kestrel. They're quite common in the southwest. They're different than the hawks around here, considerably smaller, for one thing. So it's handy to know the correct word when you're talking about them. Just because something is outside your experience doesn't mean it's useless. I disagree. I think there are far more useful words that should probably be learned, before kestrel. One would hope your daughter learned those words in elementary and high school. By the time you get to college, it should be about enriching an already well established vocabulary. You complain about the dumbing down of the education system, and in the same post complain that she's being taught college level vocabulary. Odd. EXACTLY! ELEMENTARY SCHOOL! Thank you! I'm talking about my wifes college course.
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