Test

Those who contend that U.S. education has thrown the three Rs out the window were rubbing their hands last week. In a New York City high school, 36 students were asked to spell "thermometer." Nineteen got it right; the 17 who got it wrong misspelled it 16 different ways--therometer, thermomitor, thrmometer, termometer, themoneter, thermomiter, tenmometer, thermonter, theometer, themometer, themoeter, termonter, thermoter, thermomter, theremothr, thirommeter.

It was, wrote Teacher Wera Mitchell in the monthly High Points, more a test of the school system that had "taught" them than of the students themselves.

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