Metric essay

[Greg Hermann]

>"C. Brooks" wrote:
>
>> If you've met an American that doesn't know that 212 deg is the bowling
>> point of water, it's probably because he was too stupid to get on the right
>> plane home! (Good riddance!)
>
>Careful here, according to national statistics, 62% of recent U.S. High School
>Graduates do NOT know the boiling point of water in either deg.F or deg.C...
>Yeah, I didn't believe it either until I took an unofficial poll. While my
>results were much better then the national numbers, they still were appalling.
>Thank God my teenage daughter answered the question immediately in both scales;
>but, she also added that from what she saw in High School she wasn't surprised
>by the statistics...
>rap

Now--let's try extending that survey to see what percentage of NEA members
don't know the answer!

Greg
>
>P.S. Also, and just as surprising, our kids score ALMOST the lowest in
>geography
>of all the industrialized countries; so if they did get on that plane they
>probably weren't sure where it was going.