No Electric - No Gas - Just Confusion

[101airborne]

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That is bad. I have seen where stores have they're registers break down and the clerks can't even count back change. They are so use to having a machine tell them how much money to give back to the custamer that they can't count back simple math. This is what our public schools are putting out. Can't read and can't count. what has this country become. makes you wonder about alhamerzers and demintia. We are not using our brains the way we did years ago.
AJ

Ain't that the truth. A couplr of weeks ago I had to pick up a couple of things at china mart while I was in New albany Indiana ( It was late, I'm in the 18 wheeler, and everybody else was closed) When I checked out the cashier hit the wrong key and the register didn't tell her how much change I was due so while she was fumbling with a calculator I told her (adding up in my head) how much change I had coming when she figured out I was right using a calculator and 5 minutes, she was amazed I was right. I sarcastically told her that when I went to school they taught us a couple of real cool things called addition and subtraction.

[merlin1358]

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My son is 6 and I have no faith that the school is going to teach him anything worthwhile, all he has learned from his teacher is that parents can't spank there kids and how Mexico really owns Texas becuse the US stole it.
The wife and I try to make him think through problems whenever we can, make him add and subtract and try to sound out new words before we pronounce it for him. We decided before he even started school that we would be the ones to teach him and just let him go to school for social interaction and pick up whatever he can there. I just don't see how he will learn much, some of the teachers don't even speek English.

[Applejack]

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there are parents out there who will sit down and work with they're kids at home, but for the most part, and from what I see here on east coast of VA, school is nothing more than a babysitter while the parents do theyre thing. mostly the warfair group. When these kids get home from school, they are sent out the door for someone else to deal with. These parents will not see to it that these kids will get they're homework done and we wonder what is running our government. these are the kids of the future and even now they have started in with a meaningless education getting jobs they can't do.
AJ

[brushhippie]

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The schools unfortunately are not in the "business" of educating students anymore they are concerned with making the numbers work so they get the money they need to operate....sad.

[Applejack]

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The schools unfortunately are not in the "business" of educating students anymore they are concerned with making the numbers work so they get the money they need to operate....sad.

They call that SOL"S and the kids had better pass them or no state funding. so this is what they are teaching instead of reading, writing and math, etc.

[Zeke]

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we home schooled our kids. So me know they had the skills to make in the big bad world. Taught them that life is not fair but to be fair to other all the time regardless. Work hard and be proud to put your name on what ever u do. They all can cook, balance check book, know how to save money for hard times, to wast not, want not. They all turned out to be productive citizens. I'M PROUD OF ALL SIX ON OUR CHILDREN!!!!

ZEKE

[CountryGuy]

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I see this all the time when I'm traveling. If the cash register doesn't tell them which coins and how many to give they're lost. I do notice it tends to be worse in and near bigger cities than rural, but there are some doozies there as well. I had one a few weeks back where something was like $9.37 and their register didn't tell them. This 20 something kid with more metal in his lips and ears than in my car couldn't figure out how much to give me back from my $10. He finally looked at the receipt to learn it was to be $0.63 but he sat their digging in the drawer trying to figure out what it took to make that. He had this lost look so I finally took pitty(not to mention was tired of waiting) and told him which coins. Then he still looked unsure like he wasn't sure if I was trying to lie to him.

Another example of this is how many people, including waiters and waitresses can't figure out percent tip in their head.

I rail against the schools but agree, the buck stops at home. I'm proud that my daughter getting ready to start 4th reads at almost 6th grade level and my soon to be first grader is almst at 3rd grade. Then again have they dumbed down those levels so it looks more impressive?

I also feel this "new math" crap they teach is part of the problem. They force the kids to learn adding and subtraction using this number card that they have to have in hand to do math. So what are they teaching(I use that term loosely)? Then they have the gall to send home a note saying don't teach them "another method" or how parents might have learned to do it as this new method is how they'll be graded? Heck, I'm an engineer and I still couldn't figure out what the crap they were wanting them to do. When they got to the money portion I gave them a handful of change and a few bills and kept working with them asking them for various change or payments.

[Applejack]

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I see this all the time when I'm traveling. If the cash register doesn't tell them which coins and how many to give they're lost. I do notice it tends to be worse in and near bigger cities than rural, but there are some doozies there as well. I had one a few weeks back where something was like $9.37 and their register didn't tell them. This 20 something kid with more metal in his lips and ears than in my car couldn't figure out how much to give me back from my $10. He finally looked at the receipt to learn it was to be $0.63 but he sat their digging in the drawer trying to figure out what it took to make that. He had this lost look so I finally took pitty(not to mention was tired of waiting) and told him which coins. Then he still looked unsure like he wasn't sure if I was trying to lie to him.

Another example of this is how many people, including waiters and waitresses can't figure out percent tip in their head.

I rail against the schools but agree, the buck stops at home. I'm proud that my daughter getting ready to start 4th reads at almost 6th grade level and my soon to be first grader is almst at 3rd grade. Then again have they dumbed down those levels so it looks more impressive?

I also feel this "new math" crap they teach is part of the problem. They force the kids to learn adding and subtraction using this number card that they have to have in hand to do math. So what are they teaching(I use that term loosely)? Then they have the gall to send home a note saying don't teach them "another method" or how parents might have learned to do it as this new method is how they'll be graded? Heck, I'm an engineer and I still couldn't figure out what the crap they were wanting them to do. When they got to the money portion I gave them a handful of change and a few bills and kept working with them asking them for various change or payments.

Funny you said that about teaching them a different way of doing math. that happened to us when dad was teaching our daughter to do algebra. Had the right answer but wrong way of doing it. the way I see it so what it was right. But we were told not to help her anymore. So we had to sit down a learn theyre way. No wonder kids hate math. The way they did it was what they called the long way. takes twice as long to get the answer.
AJ

[CountryGuy]

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well I know their way for teaching basic math to young elementary students can only be described as asinine. Who ever heard of needing to have a number chart card in hand to add or subtract. Their methods for multiplication and division was also off the wall.

No wonder kids get so aggravated with school and tune out.

I mean we've done math basically the same way for the last 2000 yrs but now these progressive nit wits think they are smarter?

I mean the proof is in how far down the scale we are compared to other countries of the world but they still refuse to admit it doesn't work. Another strike against the Dept of Education, NEA and No child left behind.