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I won't jump back into the Asian thing because i've seen how factory workers live in China and what they tolerate, and the repetitive jobs they do.........ugghh
Anyway, some good stuff in this thread about education but some basic building blocks are adding and subtracting as well as reading. Part of reading is also the use of a Dictionary. Today, spellcheck is the norm and many folks don't realize that spell check can be wrong, I guess it is just how the wind blew, blue, bleu??
Even bowling has gone high tech. You no longer need to add scores in your head especially with spares and strikes. What about cash registers? When I'm at a store, and it comes to, for example, $5.25. if i give a cashier a ten and then say, hey wait, i have a quarter, they get confused because the register says to return $4.75 to me. it's gotten to the point that i must accept the change and then hand back 4 dollar bills and 4 quarters and request a $5 bill....no kidding.
It's disconcerting to me that we don't challenge the minds of kids today by keeping math included as part of the "price of playing" like with bowling.
Spelling and proper grammar are a lost art as well...............Hey,who you going to the mall with?
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