If they did not have the computerized register or a calculator, they could not make change.

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!

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.

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.  

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 . . . .

re: Today's New Hires...

and I thought this was about rootbeer.....

lol

re:.... The kids are our country's future.

well considering whe they're being taught up here ,north of the 49th,... Canada's sunk....

teachers are on strike up here in Ontario, they say 'wages' aren't the issue and the guv say 1% pay raise. All hell breaks loose..walkouts..disruptions, etc.

OK, old skool math, 1% of 100K is 1,000 canucks, say 1/2 goes to taxes, $500 in pocket, 52 weeks in a year, so about $10 extra per week. That's 1 coffee per weekday !

idiots...

     A school building seems to be one of the most under-used facilities there are. Less than 8 hrs. per day and only 9 months per year; less spring break, Christmas, etc.

     Now I've vented a little of my frustration.

It seems to me the teachers are only doing what they are told to do and are only teaching what they are told to teach.  It's not the teachers fault they are told they can no longer teach cursive or old school math!  If there is an issue with the teachers, it's just like everything else.  You need to take it to the management or the board.   All you guys need to do is go in there and complain about those worthless teachers.  Everyone of you is probably paying taxes for the school system.  You don't need to sit on your butts and do nothing!

When you do go in, take a couple reams of paper, a thousand pencils, and  20 big boxes of crayons for the kiddies.   Might want grab a case of highlighters along the way.  These can be handed out to the teachers.  Oh and each of you should volunteer to go to the teachers house every night to grade the days papers!

The computer issue is easy to fix.  Have the government stop advancements in  technology.  A normal computer is almost obsolete after 3 to 4 years.  One of my jobs  working for the National Weather Service was to purchase new computers for the office.  I had the office broken down into three groups and each group was replaced on a 3 or 4 year cycles.  These were not high end computers a little more power than your own home computer.  For the jobs they were asked to perform those were adequate for the life expectancy.  Now the weather system computers were another story and were purchase by headquarters Silver Spring MD.  They were also replaced on a similar cycle.

BTW,  if you are wondering, the entire Central Region possibly the entire country's field offices of the NWS used Dell.  The computers purchased for the weather systems were also Dell, including all of the servers.  The most reliable available.  If you want a new computer, go to Dell.com and look for the Dell Outlet link.  Refurbished, and scratch and dent, are just as good as new, just cheaper.  I would think for most on here, the cheapest one would be adequate.  The laptop I'm typing this on was $200.00.  I'm not cheap I'm frugal.

re: A normal computer is almost obsolete after 3 to 4 years.

Actually according to 'them' it's obsolete BEFORE you buy it !

'They' don't make ANY money if YOU keep your old computers. I haven't BOUGHT a new computer since mid80s, handmedowns, freebies, tossaways .. they still work.

Funny thing is I can get my 'old' Windows98 PC to do stuff a brand new 'state of the art' Win10 laptop can't.... I LOVE 'old skool' tech !!!

I remember when this new math hit the schools.  The teachers were up in arms about it, but it didn't do any good. 

I remember when I was in elementary school.  I don't remember what grade, but they came in with these new math books and told us this is what you will be taught now, New Math.  I guess it was in the early 60's. 

When they came out with this new math I figured it was going back to what I learnt early on!  Gone full circle!?

I think it's like electronics . . .does the positive electron move toward the negative, or the other way around?  We went back and forth on this for an entire day back in Electronics Tech School when I was USAF.  I  also remember the first CRT"S were called padink tubes.  The electrons were shot down a conveyor belt to the screen.  They ricocheted off of the screen and dropped down to the bottom and went padink.  And then another conveyor took them back up to get shot again.

I guess parents could teach cursive at home.  They teach the children to count and the alphabet and print their name before Kindergarten.  Come about second grade you start teaching them cursive.

john(MI)

I agree it's not the teachers that determine the curriculum and apparently now days they can only teach the curriculum the way they're told.  I have a 90 year old land lady that taught K,1,&2 for almost 50 years and after she retired the locals would bring their kids to her that were struggling in school and she would tutor them free gratis.  Around 6-7 years ago she was tutoring a young boy that was having trouble with fractions and such in math class.  When the boy explained to her how the teacher was telling them to do the problems she couldn't even understand what the teacher was teaching, so she taught the boy how to do it the way she taught and learned.  The boy started acing his math class and the parents called her and were so happy because he was getting A's in math class and couldn't thank her enough.  Well within a couple of weeks the teacher called my land lady and asked her how she had taught the boy fractions and the teacher then informed her that they had a curriculum to follow and that way of teaching was not allowed!  The boys parents went to the school board and unfortunately the board sided with the teacher and the parents pulled the boy from getting tutored.  So I guess they teach a curriculum now days and that includes how to teach it to?  My land lady just throws her hands up now and says I guess if a child doesn't understand something you assume their dumb and don't worry about trying to teach them in a way they can learn.

She also has big problem with the special needs children, as she puts it we spend all this time and extra classes and such on special needs children which is fine, but we leave half the special needs children behind because the ones making straight A's we don't offer many extras for and don't challenge them, then they become board and get in trouble.  I guess that must be why I was always in trouble growing up.

Here's a REAL head shaker. Granddaughter is in grade 12, has 4 classes per day. Lets' call them a,b,c,d with 'a' starting at 9AM. 1st day of the month she goes to a->b->c->d, 2nd day of the month b->c->d->a, 3rd  is c->d->a->b.  yeah, I'm cornfused too !! 'they' rotate the subjects. No wonder kids have a hard time in school !

Guess I'm old , but school SHOULD teach kids 'structure', like Engilish is always 3rd period.

This 'new' system is setting the kids up to fail when they get a real job with a REAL timetable.

In spite of this, she get high 90s, and yes ,knows please and thank you !