Here's a little more background and analysis on the 8th grade education from none other than the Salina Journal. Be sure to click the "full story" link at the bottom of the little "Back to the (testing) Future" inset.<br> <br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 5:46 PM, Jon Page <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jonpage@comcast.net" target="_blank">jonpage@comcast.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> <div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"> <div> <div> <div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif">Subject:<span> </span></span></b><b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif">Fwd: Re: 8TH GRADE EDUCATION in 1895</span></b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></div> </div> <div> <div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif"> </span></div> </div> </div> <div> <div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif"> <u></u><u></u></span></div> </div> <div> <div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif"> Remember when grandparents and great-grandparents stated that<span> </span><br> they only had an 8th grade education? Well, check this out. Could<span> </span><br> any of us have passed the 8th grade in 1895? <span> </span><br> Imagine this..<u></u><u></u></span></div> </div> <div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif"> <snipped></span></div> </div></blockquote></div><br>