Posted on 04/10/2007 1:03:17 PM PDT by hardworking
This is unashamedly a VANITY post but it is intended to be a SERIOUS one. I have finally reached the point of complete bafflement in wondering what , if anything, is being taught to our young people in school! Here are some of my RECENT experiences as an employer. Am I the only one experiencing this level of idiocy in our country? 1. Two days ago I said the word 'penicillon' in a conversation. A young employee interrupted me and asked, "What is that?" I didnt' know what she was asking until she repeated, "What is that peni...you just said". 2. I recently told an employee that we needed to 'dilute' a substance before using it. They didn't know what 'dilute' meant. 3. I recently said that a substance would go into 'suspension' and the employee looked at me with a blank stare. 4. None of our young staff can calculate a percentage WITH A CALCULATOR, let alone without one!
Can someone please tell me WHAT these kids are doing during the hours they are in school? It appears that they are not learning even the most basic skills.
Income disparity is growing for a reason.
It's long been a problem.
FReegards, from the Swamps of Georgia...
No more soup for anyone on this thread!
Wrong answer.
He is a business owner that needs skilled employees. It isn’t his job to teach these buffoons. It is the schools job to educate these people so they can function in society. Unfortunately that society appears more like a “Lord of the Flies” society than “Fountainhead”.
If you want *skilled* employees, don’t hire teenagers. They don’t have any job skills therefore, must be trained.
If they were my employees, they would be good little Conservatives in no time flat and know a hell of a lot before they left that position. Those mush minded souls are ripe for the pickin.
I totally agree public education sucks but, that’s not a reason to give up on them nor, is it the Christian thing to do.
Teaching is a lifelong process that never ends and neither does learning.
Seriously, you have just made a very good argument for school vouchers/choice.
Make that TOO easy.
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Are you slowly and clearly pronouncing your monosyllabic words using a simple sentence structure?
I advised a factory worker to cut a product 3.5 inches. He asked me what I meant by .5. Now I know that was a little obscure. But if a dim wit like me could think of it - why couldn’t he understand it??
The comedian - Larry the Cable Guy - always likes to give a young kid at McDonald's etc. $10.01 for what ever the bill is to see them wrestle with how to handle change for the 1 cent.
What’s not to love about Larry, huh? Maybe we could get him to run for Pres...?
On the other hand, if you have a need to get a condom on a banana, you’re in luck!
Hire home-schooled kids or illegal aliens. Once the EduKKKrats get ahold of them, they’re wothless as balls on a sow.
The home schooled girls around here are the wildest ones around.
So, that makes you beet-red faced?
Don’t always be so quick to blame the schools—oftentimes the failure is the student’s. I am a product of public schools (graduated HS in ‘99) and don’t think I turned out too poorly.
I agree with most of what you said, but what employer has the time to do all that and stay afloat with new employees?
I can see them doing a special project employee here and there, but overall they need to do better interviews to find the ones with brains IMO.
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