Opus 2026-151: Click Bait: It Should Be Obvious

I did not bother to click on this one because I wasn’t really interested but I saw it several times and the image kept coming back.  The scenario had Lucy, Ethel, Fred and Ricky watching a game show on TV and the bait was that Ricky knew all the answers.

As it kept coming back to me I wondered why.

The one big difference between Ricky and the others is that he did not attend public school in the United States.  That is my assumption for this post anyway.  I really don’t know the I Love Lucy lore enough to be sure, but it makes sense.  I would assume he went to school in Cuba and actually got an education.

I had an experience like this when I was teaching.  I had a young lady who had just left the boat from Sierra Leone.  For those who went to public school, that is a nation on the west coast of Africa.  I remember her coming to me after a few weeks, almost in tears, because of the empty classes she was taking.  She said, “In Africa I was studying Shakespeare, here we are learning the definition of a noun.”  I believe she was in 7th grade at the time.

So it should be no surprise that Ricky knew the answers.  He had an education.  It is amazing what a difference that makes.

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