Posted on 10/03/2010 7:23:17 PM PDT by Immerito
Poor communication and vocabulary are a huge problem. People are unable to properly express themselves or be understood. Think of the implications.
It’s EVIL.
What’s that?
I'm convinced that the part of the brain that tells us how to read an analog watch (or reaching back farther, a sundial) also tells us how to learn trigonometry.
“We still have Trick or Treaters on our street.”
Count yourself lucky. I always looked forward to the crumb crunchers coming to the door on Halloween but now, that’s just a memory thanks to the overly protective parents in my small neighborhood. Guess I’ll just use the existing candy in my house in case of unexpected ankle biters.
“How hard is it to figure out?”
Have you ever been in a restaurant when there’s a computer glitch and the equipment to scan your credit card doesn’t work? Faced with using the old credit card machine (most/all restaurants have one), the staff is completely helpless.
Still don’t know what it is,m one with hands on it or one with numbers on it.
Public schools struggle to teach simple reading and math. And history class might as well be renamed “speculative fiction class”.
If you want your kid to know how to do laundry you better teach em yourself. Otherwise they will ruin all their clothes. School teach em about mortgages? If you thought THIS housing crisis was bad.....
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