Do you mean 1959 or 1859??

Melissa

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Subject: Re: [VA-ROOTS] 1920 Virginia teaching certification requirements

The other interesting thing here is that Augusta County public schools didn't start having 8th grades until ~1959.  I remember my father, who was a school principal, saying that Augusta County was the last county in the state to institute an 8th grade.  Just things that you remember.

On 19-Jul-13 11:54, Westview wrote:
> Looking at the censuses you find that many people "only" had a 7th grade education.  By today's standards that seems like not much, however, a 7th grade education then was not what it is today.  A few years ago I read an article (don't remember where) that addressed the subject and included a test that was given back then in the 7th grade.  It was incredibly difficult and included many questions that I think many college grads today would be hard-pressed to answer.  I think most 7th grade graduates would have been perfectly equipped to teach at the very least the three R's and likely a lot more to boot.
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> kathy
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