Posted on 01/11/2019 3:47:20 PM PST by SJackson
Kids today know plenty, whether it's how to become a social media star on YouTube or how to navigate Snapchat. (It's a snap.) And at every step, their cellphones are close at hand, part extra appendage, part security blanket.
But cellphones are one thing.
And rotary dial models, quite another.
Two adorably clueless 17-year-olds, Jake and Kyle Bumstead of Illinois, got four minutes to dial a number on a rotary phone. It was their first time using such a relic from a bygone age.
Imagine asking an English speaker to parse some Egyptian hieroglyphs.
In this case, it took the pair more than a minute simply to recognize that Step 1 involved lifting the receiver.
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> School board members only have so much pull. the union and teachers have the most. <
I spent 25+ years as a public school teacher (plus a few years as a private school teacher). So please trust me on this.
When it comes to large school districts at least, teachers - and unions - have darn near zero pull when it comes to the curriculum. We are given a binder that lays out exactly what we must teach, and how. Deviate from the binder, and you risk losing your job.
I know quite a few teachers who were let go for that reason.
So where does that binder come from? The school board approves it, but it is produced by “educational consultants”. And that’s the root of the problem. These consultants are, by and large, ultra-liberals who want to use the curriculum as a way to change society.
They probably define "dial" as "to enter a series of numbers."
You can on my Frontier (formerly Verizon) network here in WV
Lol... We had a gal down the street who just had to nose in on everyone’s call. One time they set her up by sharing very excitedly that one of her friends house was on fire. They were all waiting there for her when she showed up to a non-fire. Kind of slowed her down for a couple weeks but then she was back at it... :)
Our number was one long one short. lol
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I find a lot of younger people won’t watch a movie older than say, 1990.
Brace yourselves, folks, for my double whammy!!
I have three working rotary phones in my house, including one right next to my desk top computer.
I do have two touch tone phones for my landline.
BTW, I do NOT have any type of cell or mobile phone device.
It is a drag when I answer one of my rotaries and am instructed to press a number.
LOL!
My wife and another gal went into the school and taught the math facts in the hallway outside the classroom. They brought it up to the teachers, and the teachers and the principal agreed. However, the principal told everyone that it was not to be promoted or everyone would get in trouble by the union.
They were down there every day for an hour - “Math in a minute” they called it. Would work with each kid and when they were able to do a certain number of facts in a minute they would move on to the next set of numbers. They did that for 4 or 5 years. Started with addition, then subtraction, then multiplication, then division.
Later on in Jr. High and High School I would tell my kids “Do you know how hard this math would be if you hadn’t learned the basic math facts? Go thank your mom!”
Try to find a payphone...I doubt the city that was the first to have them has them anymore.
If handed a rotary phone, any teen today might do the same things with it.
They know today’s technology, not yesterday’s. Just as we did, at their age.
These teens were good sports about it, though.
Slide rule? Heck, I got you one better than that - use an abacus!
My screen is not that big.
Want to hear another good one?
Bought myself a 20 year old jeep, to fix up and cruise around with.
My 26 year old son immediately jumped in to drive it.
5 speed manual stick shift! Uh oh! No can do!
Ha ha ha...the old man wins!
I had a real hoot at the local auto parts store awhile back. A guy brought in a carburetor looking for a rebuild kit. The kid behind the counter didn’t have a clue what he was looking at. I explained to him what it was and what the customer was looking for. A couple of older customers had a good laugh.
> They are just following orders? <
It’s all a matter of degree. In my long teaching career, I received a few orders that I considered to be more than just wrong. They orders were evil. I simply ignored them. And luckily, I got away with it.
But I - and my colleagues - also received many orders that were just plain stupid. What to do then? You work around them as best you can. You do the best for your students as you can, and plead ignorance if you are caught deviating from the script.
Dont know about that - as a teen, I was fully aware of reel-to-reel, even used a punch-card computer a few times and they were both before my time.
I had to find a refresher course on Youtube to help my son with his homework. I hadn't done long division with a pencil and paper in at least 35 years.
It came back pretty quickly.
What's a check? Who writes letters? DocuSign.
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