A friend has been a public school teacher in the US for 28 years. She teaches middle school and says the majority of the children in her classes today cannot read an analog clock.
I’m sure those kids probably can’t use a rotary phone either, but we still have lots of analog clocks. Even to just be able to understand the terms “clockwise” and “counter-clockwise,” I would think it would still be beneficial to know how to read a clock. I’m all for abandoning old and unnecessary technology, but things like math and others really have me worried about the state of education in the US. It’s really not good.
Should of advertised it as the 2/6 pounder. Since 6 is bigger then 4.
Hasn’t everyone heard this already?
And that was in the 80’s….The current school education system is worse than back then
Edit: typo
This story is so old that it wasn’t the Americans, it was the Romans.
Is this why McDonald’s sells the double quarter pounder instead of the half pounder?
I still think the story is bullshit tho.
This is old
I could totally see this happening today
Americans.
A&W employee spotted
[A third of Europeans think the sun revolves around the Earth and that humans lived with t. rex.](https://www.scienceinschool.org/article/2006/eurobarometer/)
Being a complete fucking idiot isn’t about geography. And if you think it is, I’ve got some bad news about the idiot in your geography: it’s you.
The facepalm is that people keep posting this made up shit
The USA rejects metric because multiples of 10 are difficult
I’m sorry but – how the fuck did they manage to get to the moon?
Third pounder is a not a good name tho. Quarter Pounder rolls off the tongue better. Unless the third pounder had a different name.
There’s money to be made in selling an expensive 1/10th deluxe big bomb burger.
A society gets the burger it deserves.
This hurts…
Yeah, we’re fkn morons! Own it!
Holy necro post Batman!
The Murican spirit is strong.
I miss A&W. Used to be one in Charlotte NC I would eat at twice a week
MURICA
In the UK there was a winter themed lottery scratch card game. You were given a temperature, if you scratched off a lower temperature you won.
The issue was the UK uses Celsius; the temps were winter themed so were always a minus number.
people were attacking shop workers accusing them of trying to steal their winnings because the number to be lower than was for example -7 and they scratched off -4 and 4 is lower than 7.
the lottery company ended this game early and have never done a game involving negative numbers again.
I’m prowd to be a amerikan wear at leest I no Im freee.
Yay math.
Frito: “Thirty billion. So if you gave me 30 billion and the time machine’s 20– What’s the minus of 30 and 20?”
Joe: “Uh, it’s, uh, it’s 80, Frito. It’s eighty billion dollars. That’s a mighty big minus, isn’t it?”
Frito: “Yeah. I like money though.”
Ik it’s an oldie, but it’s in my opinion a goodie. I’m not sure if it’s genuine, but it’s hilarious for sure.
Dabosy
A friend has been a public school teacher in the US for 28 years. She teaches middle school and says the majority of the children in her classes today cannot read an analog clock.
I’m sure those kids probably can’t use a rotary phone either, but we still have lots of analog clocks. Even to just be able to understand the terms “clockwise” and “counter-clockwise,” I would think it would still be beneficial to know how to read a clock. I’m all for abandoning old and unnecessary technology, but things like math and others really have me worried about the state of education in the US. It’s really not good.
Should of advertised it as the 2/6 pounder. Since 6 is bigger then 4.
Hasn’t everyone heard this already?
And that was in the 80’s….The current school education system is worse than back then
Edit: typo
This story is so old that it wasn’t the Americans, it was the Romans.
Is this why McDonald’s sells the double quarter pounder instead of the half pounder?
I still think the story is bullshit tho.
This is old
I could totally see this happening today
Americans.
A&W employee spotted
[A third of Europeans think the sun revolves around the Earth and that humans lived with t. rex.](https://www.scienceinschool.org/article/2006/eurobarometer/)
Being a complete fucking idiot isn’t about geography. And if you think it is, I’ve got some bad news about the idiot in your geography: it’s you.
The facepalm is that people keep posting this made up shit
The USA rejects metric because multiples of 10 are difficult
I’m sorry but – how the fuck did they manage to get to the moon?
Third pounder is a not a good name tho. Quarter Pounder rolls off the tongue better. Unless the third pounder had a different name.
There’s money to be made in selling an expensive 1/10th deluxe big bomb burger.
A society gets the burger it deserves.
This hurts…
Yeah, we’re fkn morons! Own it!
Holy necro post Batman!
The Murican spirit is strong.
I miss A&W. Used to be one in Charlotte NC I would eat at twice a week
MURICA
In the UK there was a winter themed lottery scratch card game. You were given a temperature, if you scratched off a lower temperature you won.
The issue was the UK uses Celsius; the temps were winter themed so were always a minus number.
people were attacking shop workers accusing them of trying to steal their winnings because the number to be lower than was for example -7 and they scratched off -4 and 4 is lower than 7.
the lottery company ended this game early and have never done a game involving negative numbers again.
I’m prowd to be a amerikan wear at leest I no Im freee.
Yay math.
Frito: “Thirty billion. So if you gave me 30 billion and the time machine’s 20– What’s the minus of 30 and 20?”
Joe: “Uh, it’s, uh, it’s 80, Frito. It’s eighty billion dollars. That’s a mighty big minus, isn’t it?”
Frito: “Yeah. I like money though.”
Ik it’s an oldie, but it’s in my opinion a goodie. I’m not sure if it’s genuine, but it’s hilarious for sure.