How dumb are our kids?

[Sluggoslinger]

Originally Posted by spence

So I'm at the local Portsmouth grocery buying some fillet from the butcher shop. I ask the young man working the case for 2 fillets of about seven to eight ounces each.

He grabs one that's obviously too small and places it on the scale where it reads .35 pounds. He thinks for a second exposing a brief but painful look, then asks if that's ok.

Amazed at his lack of basic mathematics, I point out two fillets in the case which together were .95 pounds. Yes...magic.

So yesterday I tell the story to my 15 year old stepson, and ask him what the .35 pound read should have indicated.

He was clueless and admitted he didn't even know how many ounces were in a pound!

WTF are we teaching these dumbazzed kids?

-spence

I'd have to say the only reason I would have had no problem with that was due to our recreational habbits that often required some weights and measures to make sure you got what you were paying for when it came to the greener things in life...

[Fishpart]

Dude, I spend the day going back and forth between troy ounces, grams and pounds and I never get it right wihtout a calulator...

[The Dad Fisherman]

Originally Posted by Fishpart

Dude, I spend the day going back and forth between troy ounces, grams and pounds and I never get it right wihtout a calulator...

Remember... Don't get High on your own Supply. That way your head will clear and you won't need the "calulator"

Remember What happened to Tony Montana.....

[Raven]

Originally Posted by Sluggoslinger

I'd have to say the only reason I would have had no problem with that was due to our recreational habbits that often required some weights and measures to make sure you got what you were paying for when it came to the greener things in life...

ayep just close da shades....

in reality they'd all understand porportions very quickly if drugs and their weight were used as an example to hold their quite allusive attention span... it really has to be done in a humorus way....
not like learn this OR FAIL ! deep voice... test on MONDAY !!

but like anything else the politicians would have a freakin field day...
so it' just ain't gonna fly.....

[Backbeach Jake]

My nephew was asked where the Pilgrims first set foot on America, he answered "Provincetown!". His teacher wanted to know where he got such a rediculous idea. He answered the sign at the P-town line. She refused to believe or look it up.
Stoopid teachers =stoopid students. Our educators live in a make believe world. They declare themselves successful and run around patting themselves on the backs. Then ask for more money to teach the same kids.