3rd Grade facts

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In the 3rd grade LeVar Burton excelled at reading and was regularly left in charge of his class while teacher made herself a cup of tea. He would read aloud to his fellow classmates until his teacher returned.

Words Idiot, Moron and Imbecile were medical terms to classify 'The Scale of Retardation', that was invented by psychologists to differentiate people with low IQ. This classification remained in use till 1970s. Each category had grades, low grade imbecile, 3rd grade moron etc.

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1. A 3rd grade girl was expelled for a year because her grandmother sent her to school with a birthday cake and a knife to cut the cake. The teacher used the knife to cut the cake, then reported the girl to the authorities as having a dangerous weapon

2. President Reagan’s Surgeon General outraged fellow conservatives with his AIDS report, which called for sex ed to start in 3rd grade and explained in plain language how HIV can/not be spread. The deeply religious Presbyterian refused to alter the report or make it more morally judgmental.

3. New data shows that black kids who have just one black teacher in 3rd thru 5th grades decreased their chances of dropping out by 39%

4. A 3rd grade teacher ran an experiment with her class after the assassination of Martin Luther King where she got kids to discriminate against each other on the basis of eye color

5. A 3rd grade teacher, following MLK's death, put collars around her brown-eyed students & had them sit in the back of the classroom while she gave special privileges to blue-eyed students. After some time, she observed a significant change in test grades & behavior towards other students.

6. Yusor Abu-Salha (R), one of the victims of the tragic shooting in Chapel Hill, recorded a StoryCorps interview last year. Here, she talks with Mussarut Jabeen (L), her 3rd grade teacher. (Audio)

7. While Green Bay Packers WR Jordy Nelson was on IR for the entirety of the season, he spent his time as a 3rd grade substitute teacher.

8. You can set Wikipedia to simplified English and it reads like a 3rd grade history report