[Leaning Right]

> I taught my granddaughter her times tables. The school wasn’t teaching it anymore. <

Please don’t blame the teachers for that. Those decisions are made at the upper administration levels.

A teacher friend of mine was doing a unit on basic multiplication. So she handed out a times table to all her students. No harm in that, right? Well, the principal went ballistic. The teacher was ordered to collect all those times tables the very next day. And she had better get every one back!

The school district’s rationale was that with hand-hand calculators so readily available, times tables are just a wasteful distraction.

So now you know why a fast-food clerk cannot do basic math. It’s not the clerk’s fault. And it’s not the clerk’s teacher’s fault. It’s the fault of idiotic school boards who listen to idiotic “educational consultants”.

[Sacajaweau]

I do blame the teachers. If they were more interested in the kids instead of their union benefits, things would be different.

[Scrambler Bob]

So now you know why a fast-food clerk cannot do basic math.
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I hand them bills and change, so my returning change will come out even, or minimal.

Some times they think I am trying to rip them off.