Well, this sentence is very famous in the 2nd or 3rd grades, if i remember right. The sentence helps to memorize the alignment order of the 9 planets in the universe.
Read it along.. My Very Educated Mother Just Showed Us Nine Planets .. Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto..
Doesn't that look good? I wonder if Indian schools teach this way.. Anyway, at Prince they did not [citation needed :P].
And now, that is not the real problem. Am very worried about how the kiddies crossing the 2nd and 3rd grades will read the sentence as.. My very educated mother showed us nine..?
oh.. nine... what? ahh, pluto is nt a planet now for that matter and it cannot be included.
Yay.. if you are still teaching kids "There are nine planets in this universe", behold.. Good to you till the kids are unbeknownst. The International Astronomical Union in the mid of the year 2006 voted Pluto to be a dwarf planet and it was excluded from the nine planets.
"What....? Excluding a planet and that too Pluto? come on ... Pluto is the Planet discovered by America for the Americans.. You can't dare to exclude that.." and there was a rivalry possession that held when the exclusion poll was successful. you know.. this is why Americans are always strange! :P
Okay .. now the conclusion is Pluto is not a Planet according to the same science that gave us Pluto.. well. I do not mean 'Pluto' the dog of mickey mouse.. aww Disney..
Q no. 1. when will Pluto be removed from the TN state board books or be it in Matriculation's even..?
Q no. 2. Will there be a resistance from the 4th grade to 6th grade teachers of TN stating that the portions are not upto their knowledge since they had always learnt Pluto is one of the planets.?
Q no. 3. Will there have to be a special training session for those teachers who still aren't aware of what Pluto actually is?
.. many goes unanswered ... and the ultimate conclusion is.
*This will be Filed for Future Investigation and Reference*
probably there will be another planet peeking in by that time... :P
