A sad commentary on our educational system
12-16-2018, 03:45 PM
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12-16-2018, 04:21 PM
#32
neither of which belong in this thread.....
12-16-2018, 10:06 PM
#33
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12-16-2018, 11:16 PM
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Exactly. The "system" turns out a whole lot of people who know New Mexico is a US state. So one (actually more, but it's been decided to make an example of this one) person only heard "Mexico" and totally glossed over the "New" part. I guess she should be banned from humanity.
01-07-2019, 07:11 AM
#35
Just saw this, having lived in New Mexico for many years, this is not that uncommon, https://www.newmexico.org/nmmagazine...50-is-missing/
my personal experience was in a small fishing village in the upper peninsula of Michigan. I was driving my dad’s Acura Legend with New Mexico plates, it was around 1986. We had stopped to get a snack & coke, so I backed into a parking spot in front of the store. There where two old men playing checkers and as I walked up the steps, one of them asked me if I needed a passport to come into the United States and the other asked if it was save to drink the water down there.
my personal experience was in a small fishing village in the upper peninsula of Michigan. I was driving my dad’s Acura Legend with New Mexico plates, it was around 1986. We had stopped to get a snack & coke, so I backed into a parking spot in front of the store. There where two old men playing checkers and as I walked up the steps, one of them asked me if I needed a passport to come into the United States and the other asked if it was save to drink the water down there.
01-07-2019, 07:23 AM
#36
Just saw this, having lived in New Mexico for many years, this is not that uncommon, https://www.newmexico.org/nmmagazine...50-is-missing/
my personal experience was in a small fishing village in the upper peninsula of Michigan. I was driving my dad’s Acura Legend with New Mexico plates, it was around 1986. We had stopped to get a snack & coke, so I backed into a parking spot in front of the store. There where two old men playing checkers and as I walked up the steps, one of them asked me if I needed a passport to come into the United States and the other asked if it was save to drink the water down there.
my personal experience was in a small fishing village in the upper peninsula of Michigan. I was driving my dad’s Acura Legend with New Mexico plates, it was around 1986. We had stopped to get a snack & coke, so I backed into a parking spot in front of the store. There where two old men playing checkers and as I walked up the steps, one of them asked me if I needed a passport to come into the United States and the other asked if it was save to drink the water down there.
01-08-2019, 02:20 PM
#37
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Just saw this, having lived in New Mexico for many years, this is not that uncommon, https://www.newmexico.org/nmmagazine...50-is-missing/
my personal experience was in a small fishing village in the upper peninsula of Michigan. I was driving my dad’s Acura Legend with New Mexico plates, it was around 1986. We had stopped to get a snack & coke, so I backed into a parking spot in front of the store. There where two old men playing checkers and as I walked up the steps, one of them asked me if I needed a passport to come into the United States and the other asked if it was save to drink the water down there.
my personal experience was in a small fishing village in the upper peninsula of Michigan. I was driving my dad’s Acura Legend with New Mexico plates, it was around 1986. We had stopped to get a snack & coke, so I backed into a parking spot in front of the store. There where two old men playing checkers and as I walked up the steps, one of them asked me if I needed a passport to come into the United States and the other asked if it was save to drink the water down there.
Living in the tiny state of Delaware, I encounter the same type of confusion as New Mexicans do. I'm sure most people could not place it on a map or think it's part of Maryland.
Geography was one of my favorite subjects in school. Guess they don't teach it so much anymore.
01-08-2019, 03:53 PM
#38
Sandy is terrible at geography and she is very intelligent. But she will be the first to tell you that her spacial relations skills are very poor, and I think this is why she struggles with geography, at least when it comes to identifying or placing geographic locations. But she does know New Mexico is a U.S. state.
01-08-2019, 04:51 PM
#39
You mean it's NOT part of Maryland? Or Virginia?
Sandy is terrible at geography and she is very intelligent. But she will be the first to tell you that her spacial relations skills are very poor, and I think this is why she struggles with geography, at least when it comes to identifying or placing geographic locations. But she does know New Mexico is a U.S. state.
Sandy is terrible at geography and she is very intelligent. But she will be the first to tell you that her spacial relations skills are very poor, and I think this is why she struggles with geography, at least when it comes to identifying or placing geographic locations. But she does know New Mexico is a U.S. state.