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Sep 7, 2019 23:47:15   #
jaymatt Loc: Alexandria, Indiana
 
Tonight at a street fair when my wife signed up for something (shudder!), the young man asked her to please print because he couldn’t read cursive.

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Sep 7, 2019 23:51:57   #
luvmypets Loc: Born & raised Texan living in Fayetteville NC
 
Today's youth are being taught very little that is important. Cursive is probably considered a minor thing but the young people that I worked with would freak when the computers went down. They had no idea how to add or figure tax...it's scary what is happening in education today. This nation used to be very high in education but not any more. Very sad!

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Sep 8, 2019 00:14:48   #
crafterwantabe Loc: Mn
 
Sad but true . Ask a younger person to tell you the time on a non digital clock. Many can not tell you. Or count change back to you. Most just hand you what ever the machine says.

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Sep 8, 2019 01:53:59   #
Abo
 
crafterwantabe wrote:
Sad but true . Ask a younger person to tell you the time on a non digital clock. Many can not tell you. Or count change back to you. Most just hand you what ever the machine says.


It's the same down here... some can't even "hand you what ever the machine says".

It's my humble opinion that incompetence is now considered a virtue.

Often the packaging is worth more than the product, literally as well as figuratively.

"Correct" is an absolute, however we are expected to conform to the oxymoronic "politicaly correct".

i'm signing off... To be continued.

Warm regards,

Alan.

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Sep 8, 2019 02:04:38   #
Fotoserj Loc: St calixte Qc Ca
 
I’d would say F....Y.. learn to read

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Sep 8, 2019 02:07:28   #
Fotoserj Loc: St calixte Qc Ca
 
Thrue they don’t know the very basic skill, and they’ll be teaching sometime in the future and that is extremely scary

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Sep 8, 2019 07:28:18   #
Collhar Loc: New York City.
 
jaymatt wrote:
Tonight at a street fair when my wife signed up for something (shudder!), the young man asked her to please print because he couldn’t read cursive.


Neither can my grandchildren. It's sad.No longer expected.

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Sep 8, 2019 07:36:44   #
LoisCroft Loc: Jonesborough, Tennessee
 
I looked through my kitchen window at the outside thermometer and remarked to my granddaughter that it was just 60 degrees. With absolute wonder in her eyes she asked, "how could you know that without looking at your phone?"

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Sep 8, 2019 07:52:33   #
Scruples Loc: Brooklyn, New York
 
Here is my take. Many people are not taught properly or by their elders. Many elders may not understand the "new education." As for me, my mother and father could not afford to send me to college. I had to go out and get a job. I was waiting tables. It was back breaking work. I also did need to learn a few things. How to be pleasant, courteous and considerate. You betcha' I made mistakes along the way. I was fortunate to pay attention to what was being taught. My parents taught me stupid things that I'm grateful for now. Tying my shoe laces, reading a clock, writing cursive, and making change. My parents were interested in what I was learning in college and made the best for what it was. Now that my children are in college, my wife and I take a interest in their lives. Sure we are interested in who they are dating but my wife and I are routinely asking them what is going on in college.
I think that parents become so wrapped up in their own lives that they forget their children's education should be top on their list.

I remember a song by Harry Chapin that was titled, "A Cat's in The Cradle." Perhaps we need to hear it again.
I tried to put the link here but I came up empty. I'm sorry!

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Sep 8, 2019 08:20:53   #
hippi Loc: Sedalia MO
 
so true the people today have no clue on what to do here it is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUwjNBjqR-c

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Sep 8, 2019 08:44:29   #
Marg Loc: Canadian transplanted to NW Alabama
 
Went to a donut shop where my bill was $14.70. I handed the cashier a $10 and $5 and the register told her to give me $.30. I said, oh sorry, I need the $10 for something, let me change to this $20. She dug out her cell phone and used the calculator to find out how much change to give now. SMH 🤦‍♀️

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Sep 8, 2019 08:57:35   #
bull drink water Loc: pontiac mi.
 
in my day they taught penmanship, "cursive writing". it was not my best subject, in trying to keep my writing speed up to my thinking speed, the results were not good. sometimes even I couldn't read what I wrote.

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Sep 8, 2019 09:16:27   #
fourlocks Loc: Londonderry, NH
 
My best friend teaches Biology at a community college. One day, in the middle of class, he said, "Everyone put down your phone or handheld device." All did. "Now..." he continued..."Who can tell me what fifty six divided by 7 is?" Silence... "How much is nine times twelve? More silence...

This, in a college science class.

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Sep 8, 2019 09:38:41   #
Jim Plogger Loc: East Tennessee
 
Going to see more of this.

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Sep 8, 2019 09:51:53   #
DirtFarmer Loc: Escaped from the NYC area, back to MA
 
crafterwantabe wrote:
... Or count change back to you. Most just hand you what ever the machine says.


I had a farm stand for many years. We had a cash register that did all that, you entered prices for individual items, it would tell you the total, then you entered how much the customer gave you and it would tell you what change to give back.

I had one cashier who was skilled in math. She could figure the change easily in her head. However, I asked her to let the machine do it.

Every so often, some customer would hesitate after the sale, and ask "did I give you a 10 or a 20?".

Normally, we keep the customer's bill out of the register until the change is given and the customer turns away. However, sometimes the customer turns away, then back and we have already put the cash into the register. In a case like that, the advantage of letting the machine do it is that the transaction is all on the tape. If the cashier just gives back the change, that calculation doesn't go onto the tape. The machine thinks the customer gave you the exact amount of the sale.

The ability to do the math in your head is really good if you're a customer. Many times I have occurred an expense of, say, $4.76. When something like that happens and I only have $20s I will hand the cashier a 20 and a penny. Many of them look at me funny when I do that, but I the machine figures it out. And I get rid of a penny instead of collecting 4 more. Or for a $6 order I hand them $21, and don't fill my wallet with ones.

Customers who use cash tend to pay with paper and no coins. When we were running the stand we had to have plenty of coins on hand to make change. The biggest movers were pennies and quarters. At the beginning of the season I would go to the bank and get $500 in quarters. That would not last the whole season, but probably 3/4 of it. Similarly with about $20 in pennies. Nickels and dimes went through the stand at probably 1/3 that rate.

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