sometimes i wonder what kids learn in first grade these days. looking back, it seemed like half of class time was spent teaching us that "ain't" was in fact not actually a word, and there were proper terms that could be subsituted should we be tempted to use the offending contraction. do kids still say "ain't"?

also, we were taught stuff about mr. oh so perfect george washington, which having aged some 20 odd years since, are obviously false. like, that whole chopping down the cherry tree thing and "i cannot tell a lie...blah blah blah". for some reason, i have this creeping suspicion that there's a lot of kids out there who don't know who george washington is. then again, there's probably very few instances of kids chopping down cherry trees these days too.