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19 Year Old Doesn't Know Numbers of Months

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by: landers Active Indicator LED Icon  OP  New Member
~ 8 years ago   Feb 27, '16 8:29pm  
I just placed an order at local, popular Kingwood restaurant. Upon providing the order-taker with my credit card expiration of September, 2017, the order-taker asked me if that was 11/17? Said she did not know the number of the month to enter in machine. OMG  I hope folks are teaching their kids better than this. I also hope this girl (and boy) knows how to wash clothing, doesn't open door for strangers, etc. I worry about this girl leaving work at night, walking in parking lot, digging in her purse for keys while on cell phone - perfect situation for being a victim. PLEASE pay attention to your children and don't raise them to be naive. (This gal told me she is 19 yrs old-scary, old enough to vote). 4951
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Retired_Engineer Active Indicator LED Icon 13
~ 8 years ago   Feb 27, '16 8:38pm  
I've also known quite a few high school graduates that cannot make change without the cash register telling them how much to give back.  We can thank the general dumbing down of schools and lack of parental guidance for this.  My son teaches at a high school and he said he can tell on the first day of school who is paying attention and who is just in his class because they have to be.  Many parents of those students don't care if their children study or do homework.  Since the school ISD and school itself gets graded on passing students, teachers cannot fail students.  Their principals will not allow them to fail students.  So, over the next decade or so, a high-school diploma will become as useful and as meaningful as toilet paper. 4951
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~ 8 years ago   Feb 27, '16 8:45pm  
It is so sad & disgraceful. 4951
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~ 8 years ago   Feb 27, '16 8:45pm  
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np77 Active Indicator LED Icon  New Member
~ 8 years ago   Feb 27, '16 8:55pm  
Was checking out at HEB a few months back...i can see the cashier was struggling to come up on how much change should she give (something was wrong with the register). I told her how much but she wouldn't believe me because i wasn't using a calculator.  lol  She took out her phone, used the calculator and blurted  out: "yeah, you were right!". Toink!  Emoticon  4951
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bubbleyes72 Active Indicator LED Icon 18
~ 8 years ago   Feb 27, '16 9:03pm  
Sad thing it's not just kids!! A grown *** woman with two kids working at my work cafeteria can't count change back either when register is working or broke, I have to tell her each time. She gets mad at me thinking I'm being rude, its just sad these people are allowed to reproduce.
 
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~ 8 years ago   Feb 27, '16 9:03pm  
I hate to admit it but I have grand children in the same situation.
 
I agree the schools and teachers are often the problem, but in my case, I have four examples to look at.
 
Both sets of grand children attended the same high school.
 
Two did very good (A students, went on to college with great grades).
 
The other two barely got out of high school and can't add two and two, Didn't go to college and not working.
 
In short, I blame the parents in this case. Neither my don nor his wife gave a hoot about their kids.
 
It has taken better than two years to get these two boys to be able to count, make change, read, spell, etc. They graduated from high school with less than a third grade education and what's worse, they didn't see the problem with that.
 
And neither of these boys have a drug problem. They're not stupid pr druggies. They're just uneducated.
 
I know several instances of this and it's going to drag the USA down to that Third World level in a short time.
 
I sincerely worry. 4951
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~ 8 years ago   Feb 27, '16 9:08pm  
Removed By Request 4951
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~ 8 years ago   Feb 27, '16 9:23pm  
To be honest.
 
Im not sure i knew the numerical equivelant until i had to use it everyday??? .i knew the order of the months but maybe not that 10 was october..and i am a bit older than todays teenagers..i have a 22, 20(in 3 days) and 18 year old..the youngest can make change..2 years at taco bell will teach that. Oldest is smarter than me even though she was a teen mom and made her share of bad decisions but finished school and bought her own home at 21 as a single mom with no financial help from us, and the middle is a work in progress..i am at the point where i hope she can marry well.
 
I just dont think we should write this generation off quite yet..they no doubt have it easier than we all ever did, but they will make it....eventually. They dont have a choice.
 
Eta: i think its easy to look at kids now and think we are doomed and while we all may have had more responsibility...i guarantee the generation before thought we would be the downfall..its just perspective. We were all stupid at one point too. 4951
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~ 8 years ago   Feb 27, '16 11:36pm  
" I also hope this girl (and boy)"You couldn't tell if it was a girl or boy? 4951
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landers Active Indicator LED Icon  OP  New Member
~ 8 years ago   Feb 28, '16 9:01am  
I plan to participate in MW Cleaners/Prom Dresses/Giving Gown Foundation. They are in need of mentors. Perhaps I can make a positive difference in a less fortunate girl's life.She can learn days of month laterEmoticon Takes a village to raise a child!!! 4951
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~ 8 years ago   Feb 28, '16 9:22am  
I don't see why it's such a big issue. We have grown adults who can't spell, nor do they know the difference between certain words and y'all want to jump into the teenagers can't count thing?
 
Attitude reflects leadership.
 
Clearly means that children will take on their parents attitudes towards education. Not in all instances, but most. For example, my oldest daughter was just like I was in high school...into sports and socializing. Academics was just something I had to pass in order to play sports. In college, though, I busted my butt and ended up with my masters degree and a 3.79 GPA. She has done the same thing and has made all A's in 5 semesters of college so far.
 
My baby girl, a HS junior, is ranked 47/610 and will graduate in December. She has the idea that academics comes before anything else, even though she plays volleyball and is part of 6 different organizations.
 
Point is, her mother and I instilled a belief that education is important. We were active in their schooling, from elementary through high school. Well, as much as I could anyway. Of course, me being a teacher didn't hurt matters.
 
An inability to count and make change is appalling, but so is seeing adults not know the difference between their, there and they're. Come to think of it, I do believe that is worse than kids not counting correctly. Then again, that's just me.
 
I hope you all have a happy Sunday. 4951
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~ 8 years ago   Feb 28, '16 9:39am  
I asked my girlfriend's 22 year old nephew if he knew who the vice president was. His response was, "There is more than one president?" 4951
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~ 8 years ago   Feb 28, '16 10:49am  
What a moron. 4951
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Burnsway Active Indicator LED Icon 13
~ 8 years ago   Feb 28, '16 11:48am  
Some people are very smart and still struggle with numbers. My 11 yr old struggles big time. It doesnt mean they were taught wrong or are stupid or raised badly. Our schools recognize dislexia now but did not 20 years ago. They are just now starting to recognize discalculia(sp?) which is the math version of dyslexic. 4951
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~ 8 years ago   Feb 28, '16 12:06pm  
@BooBear and @Jax:   I haven't given up hope on the next generation.  It's just sad to see the general lack of education in BOTH our and their generation. If you can't master the three basics: reading, writing, and arithmetic by the time you graduate high school, you never will.  All three also require practice.  You can also lose those skills over time if you get sloppy.There are a lot of factors that affect learning.  Too many parents just don't care and blame teachers if their kid(s) don't get good grades.  Parents are a big factor but not the only one.  Another is that schools are being run by bureaucrats instead of educators.  Bureaucrats are more interested in pushing kids through the system than the quality of their education.  Yes, there are some teachers that are not very well qualified to teach, but I think the majority still want to educate students.  From listening to many of the activities my son tells me (he's a teacher at a high school),  I can also see how a good teacher could get so frustrated by the bureaucrats and the contradictory demands placed on teachers, that some teachers give up and just process the students through the system. 4951
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