I Rest My Case--The Dumbing Down of the "Educational" System
I work in IT for my local county. I was deploying equipment in the office where they give out certificates of residency for college students. This affords them a discount in the SUNY system.
A freshly graduated from high school young man came in asking for his C of R.
I am not making this up:
He asked the CLERK how to SPELL THE NAME OF HIS TOWN!!!
An EIGHT LETTER word which is extremely phonetic; any 2nd grader could spell it.
:jawdrop: :jawdrop: :jawdrop:
In other news, I had the "opportunity" to speak with an inmate while I was updating law library software--something about fool for a client, but I digress.
He said he was 34 years old and had a G.E.D. from Queens NY. He asked me to spell: trial, defendant and crime.
I told him when he gets out to burn his G.E.D. and find an "English as a second language" course online. He was originallly from Trinidad.
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Even if he never even set
Even if he never even set foot in that town, he SHOULD know how to spell this simple noun!!!
I had a PARENT inform me that
I had a PARENT inform me that he was going to "home school his daughter for the rest of her high school career" Since when did going to school become a job? LOL
Oh and the lady who wanted to home school and said that the kids dad was going to buy a laptop for the kid. So if she got WiFi, she was told that the laptop would have a teacher on there that would teach him. Um no... a teacher is not just going to magically appear on your laptop when you get WiFi.
Oh and the best was when a parent sent a letter of intent to home school addressed to the "Super Attendant"
Um please, if you are THAT stupid, you have no business home schooling a rock.
Super Attendant. OMFG!! LOL.
Super Attendant. OMFG!! LOL.
This reminds of SS17. Last
This reminds of SS17. Last summer SS17 asked to use our car to drive to a friend's house. Since SS17 had just got his license DH asked SS17 for his friend's address.
SS17 texted DH "Friend's Town, Our State, ZIP code"
DH texted back: very funny seriously what's his address?
SS17 texted back: that's it.
DH ended up calling SS17 and asking him, "is our address Our City, Our State, ZIP Code?"
Only then did SS17 get what DH was asking for.
The kid's an airhead.
~BettyRay
I had to teach SS15 his
I had to teach SS15 his address and phone number this past winter. I shit you not. I also taught him how to tell time on an analog clock. How did this kid get to ninth grade without learning these things? My BS18 was reciting his address in kindergarten and bringing home clock worksheets in first grade.
I have a sheet of paper taped
I have a sheet of paper taped to the home phone with our address, and work numbers on it, in case the Skids need to call 911, because both Skids don't know(more like refuse to memorize)it - I mean DH and the Skids only moved in 9 years ago.
SS17 recently locked his cell phone & keys in his work locker. Why is this a crisis? Well SS17 never memorized the lock combination because he had it saved on his phone. So DH ended up having to cut the lock off with a bolt cutter. Moron.
~BettyRay