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re: If you can't beat the public schools fairly...cheat.
Posted on 10/29/14 at 8:07 pm to saint amant steve
Posted on 10/29/14 at 8:07 pm to saint amant steve
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Few high school students have ever read Utopia
BRMHS kids would have aced those questions!
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Posted on 10/29/14 at 8:07 pm to islandtiger
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Only agenda is fairnes
loser talk.
Posted on 10/29/14 at 8:07 pm to Powerman
quote:You remind me of a guy who used to post on the music board.
I don't even think believers consider it to be historically accurate
Pretty much no one actually believes the bible.
He insisted nobody listens to The Beatles, b/c he and his friends didn't listen to them in the car on a ski trip, and they never get played at parties.
Posted on 10/29/14 at 8:08 pm to islandtiger
Having done competitions like that, you're given material to study ahead of time based on material that will be covered at the competition.
Sounds like their coach sucks.
Sounds like their coach sucks.
Posted on 10/29/14 at 8:08 pm to Powerman
never changePosted on 10/29/14 at 8:08 pm to DestrehanTiger
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Fair point, but I can see how these questions would come off as a bit unfair. I have never read the bible, but I know plenty of the stories just from CCD growing up. On one side, you have kids that are taught these stories in the classroom while on the other side they weren't.
As someone who participated in quiz bowls for multiple years I understand your frustration and your claims of unfairness.
Parochial schools certainly have an advantage whenever it comes to matters of theology because it is built into their curricula.
The whole "separation of church and state" thing puts public school students at a disadvantage with these types of questions. The burden falls the student to study the Bible on their own and there is also an assumption made that everyone is raised in a Christian home.
Posted on 10/29/14 at 8:11 pm to islandtiger
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BRMHS kids would have aced those questions!
Yeah...you're full of shite.
The novel is an early 16th-century novel published entirely in Latin. While there are some schools in the state that might touch on it, none of them are analyzing the text at length.
Posted on 10/29/14 at 8:12 pm to islandtiger
The Bible is not only the most published and sold book of all time there are more literary references to the Bible than any other literary work. If you don't know the Bible you miss a good bit of what is happening in other works.
Posted on 10/29/14 at 8:15 pm to islandtiger
I would have lit my farts on fire if I were them.
Posted on 10/29/14 at 8:16 pm to saint amant steve
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The novel is an early 16th-century novel published entirely in Latin.
Originally published in Latin...translated to English in 1551
Posted on 10/29/14 at 8:16 pm to islandtiger
quote:BTW nowadays it takes some creativity to sneak an Atheist "Religion sucks!" thread onto the OT. Congratulations.
Religious fundamentalism: a threat abroad, a threat at home
Posted on 10/29/14 at 8:19 pm to islandtiger
You need to be well-versed, see what I did there, in the Bible, particular the Old Testament to understand almost everything you read in lit classes. If the smarties aren't being exposed extensively to the Bible they might as well stop at frigging Beowulf.
Posted on 10/29/14 at 8:20 pm to islandtiger
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Originally published in Latin...translated to English in 1551
That doesn't change the fact that it is beyond the comprehensive and analytic limitations of a student that young.
If you have met an individual at BRMHS that has reviewed this novel, then I apologize for my assertions. However, I highly doubt that such texts are part of the school's literary/philosophical curriculum.
Posted on 10/29/14 at 8:23 pm to islandtiger
I help facilitate a quiz bowl team at a public high school. Women in the bible is not a random category, hell there's a category called women in Russian literature. It's in the National Academic Quiz Tournaments common question category study guide. Hell I recently gave it to my students to study and other biblical questions come up in our practices often.
Posted on 10/29/14 at 8:23 pm to Kafka
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BTW nowadays it takes some creativity to sneak an Atheist "Religion sucks!"
Actually, I have never said "region sucks." The "fundamentalist" part of the quote is key.
Posted on 10/29/14 at 8:26 pm to islandtiger
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At the recent district BETA quiz bowl competition,
There's the root of the problem, right there.
Posted on 10/29/14 at 8:26 pm to saint amant steve
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If you have met an individual at BRMHS that has reviewed this novel
Senior AP European history read it the first month of class this year.
This post was edited on 10/29/14 at 8:30 pm
Posted on 10/29/14 at 8:27 pm to Powerman
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Pretty much no one actually believes the bible.
:look at me!!!:
Posted on 10/29/14 at 8:28 pm to Powerman
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I don't even think believers consider it to be historically accurate
Pretty much no one actually believes the bible.
You're not serious, are you?
That's like me saying nobody really likes tomatoes because I don't like tomatoes.
Posted on 10/29/14 at 8:29 pm to islandtiger
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Senior AP English read it the first month of class this year.
Well then my bad, Broseph Smith.
I went to a public school so my exposure to high-brow literature was extremely limited until college.
Still, it's best that you learn now that people with money (e.g. private school students) will always possess a greater advantage in nearly all walks of life.
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