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    Posted: 11 Jan 2020 at 6:57pm
I was at our local Pizza place last Wednesday night for  a tractor club meeting .  I had written down what kinds of pizza we wanted for our meeting and the new waitress looked at it and said that I would have to help her as she didn't know how to read Cursive writing, I guess i should have texted her !
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I love giving youngsters at the cashier coins, never fails that they always ask me "is it correct"? with a look of panic on their face.
If they did not have the computerized register or a calculator, they could not make change.
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What irritates me is how many people want to use their credit card to buy a small item, for instance, at the Farmers Market I will sell one peach for a buck, knowing that 3/4's of the buyers will come back in a few minutes and buy a pound or more for $4 lb.  I can hardly ever get my square reader to work and then people start piling up wanting to pay.  We have  "Market Bucks",  $5 coupons people can buy from the Farmers Market Info stand, which is right across from my stand.  I would much rather take a market buck script and give change then have to mess around with a credit card.  I make change all day at the Market so when I buy something at a store and pay cash, I usually have the changed due me figured out before the clerk gets the info from the register.
I think the young lady at the Pizza place maybe better learn to read cursive, it might just come in handy someday!
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that's pretty sad... both stories,  Ron and Tim.......school does not do much good for a lot of kids.
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The infamous "Dumbing Down of America".
And they're succeeding.
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It's not just academics... a group of us were at a local pizza place some years back, maybe even in the 90s I don't recall. Anyhow, one of the ladies was ordering the pizzas and to be funny said something like, "Three large pizzas with everything on it except anchovies." The kid behind the counter looks at her and said, in all seriousness, "I'm sorry ma'am, we don't have anchovies, you're going to have to order it without something else."
That's not uneducated or wrongly educated, that's just plain DUMB.
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Preaching to the Choir here, I take full advantage of disrupting the Peace by handing these kids Cursive notes, allowing them to ring up a bill then hand them a $20 and the loose change to see them lock up. Common Core Math, Common Core English all these So Called socially acceptable teaching methods dumbing down our population.
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If they can't think for themselves, they'll vote for us..... and they ARE
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Ted J hit it on the head!--- YA, the country is in bad shape, no wonder the illegals and third world terrorists have taken over America!
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Many of the GOOD teachers have gotten out of education because of political correctness.
There is no effective discipline in schools anymore.  If a kid needs "The Board of Education" applied to their bottom, the teacher gets sued and or fired.
I quit teaching in the 1984 because I was afraid I WOULD SOLVE the discipline problems.  No balls administrators dump the problems back on to the teacher.
Disruptive kids make it hard for the teacher to teach and the good kids to learn.


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Very true Clay and the problem all starts at home. We will get a lawyer, they teacher their children no displine at home
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My parents taught  respect for ourselves, others and our elders.  
Children are like a new load of cattle dumped into a pasture.
The first thing cattle do is to find out where the fences are located and if there are any holes.   Kids need to know how far they can go before they get in trouble.  Once the boundaries are established, life is much easier.
I got along well with my teachers because I knew just how far I could go.  
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  Along those same lines,,,,,the local Burger King went thru an almost total reconstruction that took bout three months to complete,,so they laid off the workers.. The sad thing is that before the face lift they had pretty good service and people ,,,,,and,,,,enough of them. NOW,,,it takes them so dang long to get your groceries to you that I have dang near stopped going because of it. I finally asked the Mgr and she looked so sad and said "IF" I could hire some people that WANT to work,,I would!! She told me before the face lift, she would only show up 3-4 hours per day just to check in. NOW,,she works 14 hours per day, every day just to keep the doors open and is constantly calling Workforce Connection for applicants but none show up,,,,,,,, So Sad when the work is there but no workers,,,,,
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Basics not taught anymore, used to think watching Jethro on Beverly Hillbilly's was funny, now you look at basics left out and Jethro looks like a rocket scientist.
Agenda has changed and kids are told to be more "aware" of who they are and to be whatever they want to be.
Basics have been left behind, now we need a third bathroom . . . .
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Cursive is not required in school anymore. I just had two graduate HS :( 
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re: Today's New Hires...
and I thought this was about rootbeer.....
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Originally posted by desertjoe desertjoe wrote:



  Along those same lines,,,,,the local Burger King went thru an almost total reconstruction that took bout three months to complete,,so they laid off the workers.. The sad thing is that before the face lift they had pretty good service and people ,,,,,and,,,,enough of them. NOW,,,it takes them so dang long to get your groceries to you that I have dang near stopped going because of it. I finally asked the Mgr and she looked so sad and said "IF" I could hire some people that WANT to work,,I would!! She told me before the face lift, she would only show up 3-4 hours per day just to check in. NOW,,she works 14 hours per day, every day just to keep the doors open and is constantly calling Workforce Connection for applicants but none show up,,,,,,,, So Sad when the work is there but no workers,,,,,

That’s interesting and ironic Joe. Our McDonalds did the exact same thing. Used to stop in for a quick coffee and breakfast sandwich; after the remodel, you go in and think maybe quicker to go in the back and fix your own...... and the more I look at the people doin the fixin, I kinda ain’t too hungry all of a sudden
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Originally posted by jaybmiller jaybmiller wrote:

re: Today's New Hires...
and I thought this was about rootbeer.....

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Seems the idea everyone deserves $15 a hour - well sounds great EXCEPT I know many people who are in business for themselves or are retired who do not get $15 a hour and CANT AFFORD TO GO PLACES where workers say they are worth $15 a hour . 
 Little bistro and local watering hole had great food and reasonable prices - one waitress who always waited on wife and myself - unsure what she got paid but a $5 or $10 tip was cheap for the service she gave , from a smile and friendly greeting to personality that just said a beautiful person within - 
 One friend that was with us one night to eat out said Amanda was worth $40 a hour wage in any restaurant that hired her - she was the type of person who made a business thrive .

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Sure know enough of those type Coke, also know those leaning at the service counter ignoring patrons and EXPECTING large tips. Overheard a couple on a 'Smoke Break' while leaving a establishment, complaining of the patrons expecting THEM to drop their phones and serve them, not been back to that place since.
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We were taught cursive in second grade (2006-7?) and were expected to at least retain enough to sign our full name. My great-grandmother used to write me letters in cursive, so I can read it fairly well, but writing is a little harder. After she passed away I hardly see it anymore. They dropped cursive not long after I learned, but I think my school teaches it again now. I see a big difference in myself and my younger brother. When I was little we had outside, toy tractors, legos, books, ect. We could think of so many things to do that we were never bored. We weren't well off enough to have any games until I was in high school and got along just fine. My younger brother on the other hand as pretty much always had a four-wheeler, games, a phone on top of all the things we and still acts like hes always bored. When power went out the other night he about went insane "with nothing to do." I just read a book. Big differences not just between generations, but also within generations. Im trying to be vigilant so when I start having kids I can raise them right.
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I forget which country but there is one that has teachers on the same level as doctors and lawyers as far as prestige and pay. Because of this teaching jobs are very much sought after and only the best of the best are hired for those positions and thus the schools are the best in making sure every student is instructed until they get it. I believe there are also several teaching assistants in each classroom.

The trouble is here that everyone wants good schools but no one wants to pay for it. The kids are our country's future.   If we pay more for schools we will have to build fewer prisons

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Very true Stan, it's sad
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re:.... The kids are our country's future.

well considering whe they're being taught up here ,north of the 49th,... Canada's sunk....
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Smart little tyke. LOL
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I think you bought the lie Stan. Money is not what will solve the problem. The money throwed that way has went nothing but up and the results have went down. Private schools provide better results on much less. Point is...money is not the problem.
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Stan here in my school district I feel the money is dis proportionally spent on sports and all sorts of programs that have nothing to do with academics.  Like 7 million spent for football field and rubberized track and grandstands that they never fill up. 
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