SHIZZLE

Tonight in chat, GreenTuna shared some frustrations she's having over the quality of her daughter's education and it reminded me of this experience:

The year was 1971. The place, The Peoples Republic of California.

My plans were to stay with my Aunt and Uncle in Long Beach, CA and attend a nearby college. As part of the entrance qualification procedure at Long Beach College I had to take an exam which I considered would be something like a SAT Test.

On the day of the exam I entered with confidence since I had always done well in school and was not afraid of tests. This totally flew out the window when I opened the test booklet and read the first question. Wha?!  It was ALL written in some kind of ghetto slang (my best guess), or maybe it was Eubonics or something, but whatever it was it was totally foreign to me. I could not make out a single word or even guess what part of speech I was looking at; I'm sure I blanched as I staggered out without understanding, or answering, even one question.

Thirty years later it still makes me wonder. Just what were those college classes like and what useful education did those students get? What jobs do those students have as a result? How do they now view the curious experiment that was their education?

Sometimes I'm glad I'm not so highly educated that I lose touch with common sense.