What Do They Teach Kids in School These Days?

[Jack Flash]

My brother in law sells produce in a small store on a busy highway near my home. The highway runs East and West (important later in the story). Sometimes when he has to be making deliveries or pick ups, I open or close the store for him. The people who actually work in the store are mostly high school and college kids.

One bright sunny morning he called as we were just starting to open the store. One of the high school girls answered the phone. Seems he was coming in with a load of produce and he wanted one of the front gates open. (The front has a U shaped parking lot with gates on each end).

The girl came to me with a deer-in-the-headlights look on her face and said "He wants the West gate open, but I don't know which one that is. He said to ask you."

I said, "Well, remember that the highway runs East and West."

She said "I need to know which is the West gate!" with growing frustration.

Nodding toward the sun I said, "The sun rises in the East and sets in the West."

Losing all patience with this cryptic old man (me) she blurted out "I didn't ask where the sun is! I need to know which gate is the WEST GATE!"

I pointed to the west gate and she happily bounced off to open it ...

I guess thinking through a problem, or even wanting to, is not taught any more...

 

[BarbC]

Apparently they don't teach them manners.

 

[35Rem]

Girls (typically, please don't flame) don't care about things like that. Compass? What for?

Not sure if they don't care about knowing how to get somewhere, or just don't have enough room in their heads. My wife can't read a map to save her life. Drives me nuts, because I'm an engineer.

 

[Wyatt Burp]

They teach them to put condoms on cucumbers, that George Washington was an evil white guy, that indian tribes all froliced happilly together in harmony untill Columbus showed up, how to sing songs praising Obama, and how wonderful Islam is without being allowed to mention other religions. Oh. When my wife was working in a grocery store this teenager asked her what time it was. She said "the clocks right there." He couldn't tell the time 'cause it wasn't a digital clock. By looking where the hands pointed on the clock, it had to make him think.

 

[feralmerril]

In 1963 I was working in west virginnia. A friend introduced me to a lady about in her early 20s. He said merril is from wisconsin. She looked at me and asked me if that was a very big town?

 

[The Highlander]

These are the kids that come in to my restaurant and appy for jobs. They wonder why I care that they are 16 year-old high school dropouts.

I had one wonder-girl tell me I HAD to hire her, just because she applied.

Oh man, have I got stories...

 

[Andy Griffith]

Back in the day I was taught just three things in school...

Reading, writing, 'rithmetic.

As a side note, my father and other boy's fathers taught us to ride, shoot straight, and speak the truth.

I didn't learn to ride too well though.
Horses don't like me too well, but I'm in good company with mules and asses.

 

[35Rem]

Horses don't like me too well, but I'm in good company with mules and asses.

Which explains why you are here! Ha Ha!!

 

[Firehouse]

I know what they don't teach. They sure as hell don't teach logical reasoning and common sense thinking. They're training them all to be robots, it takes less effort. Better raise em' like you want them to be, otherwise they'll just be another cog in the machine. Not to sound tin foil hatish, but I have a three year old and I'm already fighting this anti boy behavior. Heck no he ain't gonna sit down and color inside the lines, yes he's gonna throw dirt and rocks, he's a three year old BOY. Geez.

 

[sipowicz]

I will teach my boy to keep a back-up knife in his sock in case the teacher takes away his camping tool...

 

[ingmansinc]

Our one grand daughter is a high school senior this year and she has come home from school and repeated jokes that were told by teachers in class that Lee would not allow on this forum. If I had children of school age today they would be in a private school.

 

[David LaPell]

They teach 6 year olds that forks and spoons are weapons. They teach kids under 10 that sex is ok and guns are bad. They teach the kids that God doesn't exist and that their parents are secondary to the school.

 

[jframe]

My wife is fifteen years older than me and can't find her way on a map or globe to save her life. Has no idea where Washington D.C. is. Distance to her on a map is measured in inches instead of miles. To her, it's about an inch and a half from here in Muscle Shoals to Huntsville. As far as the direction from here, you would have to head to the right.

 

[model10]

They sure dont teach common sents now days or the 3 Rs , Its called dumbing down the younger genration , What is tought now will get u a job in a fast food joint , An woo be it if u bring a fork or sharp spoon to school now , hell i use to carry a rife in the car so my buddys an i could go hunting after school an a few times the prinib;le went with us , an if u think school is bad try collage one days , profs playing golf an you get tought by a funky yea go usa , no wonder this country is in bad shape , most docs have a name of mohanad or chinesse (sp) we are slowing loseing the battle of the world in teaching our kids to learn tools they need for life , ok i will craw back in my hole now , at 72 i just shake my head , shame shame on us

 

[model10]

sip

you better have a lawyer on speed dial if he does

 

[OKFC05]

I put up a cartoon in the teacher's lounge at the local Jr College.
It shows a typical slacker (with his pants hanging half off) listing all the people who were to blame because he was making D grades: the teachers (naturally), his parents, the government, the book publishers, etc. Then he adds: "One thing for sure, it's not MY fault!!"

And that's the new student attitude: "I came to school. You expect me to DO something??? What's with YOU??"

As George Carlin said (sorta), "You can give a horse('s patoot) a drink, but you can't make him water."

 

[Dave from Pa]

I do not think her problem stems from the schools lack of teaching, she just lacks common sense.

 

[ladder13]

Lately they've been teaching the phrase " mmm, mmm, mmm"

 

[HAWKEYE10]

Was she blonde? Just kidding. Don

 

[wuluf]

With respect...

i'm 53 and i clearly remember my parents having this conversation about my generation..we turned out ok. Hard to judge how someone's gonna turn out when they're 16.....