This makes me feel better about taking 3 tries to pass my road test when I was 16. But seriously, go her! I wish I had that kind of persistence! #womanpassesdriversteston950thtry
To be fair, the driver's license exams are extremely difficult in South Korea. The written exam has 100 or so questions and you have to get most of them right in order to pass. The practical (driving) exam is also difficult and definitely requires more than the average US exam. At least that's what my parents (who immigrated a long time ago) and friends have said.
It depends on the state, but I think US exams should more more difficult as a whole.
@lilyHaze: You have to get 60/100 right according to the article. Still, I would think that after the first 500 or so tries you'd take a week off and really cram for the test. #womanpassesdriversteston950thtry
I wonder what the problem is - does she have trouble reading the questions? Does she not know the vocabulary used? Are the issuing a new test every time that has questions made of nonsense? It seems like after you've seen the test a certain number of times, you can remember the answers. Maybe they never told her which ones were right and which were wrong?
@siboney: Is this in any way normal, though? Do most people need to take it hundreds of times? It's the sheer number that really blows me away. But hey! She never gave up, so that is a good thing.
You know, something about this seems fishy. So, she's been applying since 2005? That's ~4 years, so 208 weeks. 950 tries/208 weeks = 4.6 tries per week. So she's more or less been taking this stupid written exam every single weekday (or so) for four years? I'm sorry, just don't buy it. #womanpassesdriversteston950thtry
@mbprice: Maybe it become part of her routine. You know, wake up, shower, eat breakfast, brush your teeth, take your driver's test, go to work... #womanpassesdriversteston950thtry
@Mary McCarthyite: I've been on the road in Seoul and it was the most insane and intense experience. No one really cares that there are a million cars and people all trying to squeeze into the same traffic lane, they just all go at once. I was fearing for my life with every taxi ride. #womanpassesdriversteston950thtry
I wonder if any Asian women are as enamored of white babies as I am of Asian ones? See, I'm white, and I always think that kids of other races are automatically cuter than white kids. I know that this qualifies as "othering," and I would never do or say anything in real life to indicate that I'm thinking these thoughts…but it's what goes on inside my head. Are white people the only race with the tendency to "other"? Non-white Jezzie readers, do you do it, too? Or is it just me? :( #swineflutest
I give huge props to the American adoptive father. It appears that some of these mothers would consider raising their child instead of adoption if the severe shame associated with it was erased. Promoting international adoption has its problems when a parent who otherwise would like to keep their baby are shamed into giving them up.
"The government pays a monthly allowance of $85 per child to those who adopt children. It offers half that for single mothers of dependent children."
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I've asked a friend who identifies as libertarian before, if the (American) government should provide money to poor mothers and parents who cannot afford to support their children without food stamps, or welfare, and he says that if you can't afford kids, you shouldn't have them. Which ironically means he thinks the government should step in and take the kids away. However, he realizes that it would then take money to fund the foster system to take these kids in. He's fine with that, and would prefer that we pay money to keep kids in the foster system, than with parents who don't "deserve" the kids, because they are too poor. In other words, we shouldn't pay people to parent their own kids, we should pay other people to parent the kids, regardless of how harmful it is to the kids. I think a lot of people have these judgments against poor parents and single moms on welfare, even in America.
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Assholes are going to have a field day with this one. #womanpassesdriversteston950thtry
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It depends on the state, but I think US exams should more more difficult as a whole.
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I want to be happy for her, but I have so many questions! #womanpassesdriversteston950thtry
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@linnyt is a walking cliche: Test-taking anxiety would really do that to a person, I suppose! #womanpassesdriversteston950thtry
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the irony #womanpassesdriversteston950thtry
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Still, wtf? #womanpassesdriversteston950thtry
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Sincerely, Insurance Companies of South Korea. All of them. #womanpassesdriversteston950thtry
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That's so depressing.
I've asked a friend who identifies as libertarian before, if the (American) government should provide money to poor mothers and parents who cannot afford to support their children without food stamps, or welfare, and he says that if you can't afford kids, you shouldn't have them. Which ironically means he thinks the government should step in and take the kids away. However, he realizes that it would then take money to fund the foster system to take these kids in. He's fine with that, and would prefer that we pay money to keep kids in the foster system, than with parents who don't "deserve" the kids, because they are too poor. In other words, we shouldn't pay people to parent their own kids, we should pay other people to parent the kids, regardless of how harmful it is to the kids. I think a lot of people have these judgments against poor parents and single moms on welfare, even in America.