Spell It!

[GeorgeH]

I called in an order for lunch today and the girl on the other end asked for my name. When I replied, "George", she asked me to spell it. I almost laughed out loud but held it and spelled it for her. Then I recalled someone wrote "Jorge" on one of my previous orders.

I might be wrong but kids these days seem to be amazingly dense even though they think they know everything.

 

[xenonph]

When they said "Spell it" I would have said... I....... T.
lol

 

[Isaac Sauvage]

Well, English is the official language of Arkansas, so clearly every Latino struggling to pick up the language is an idiot.

 

[xenonph]

I might be wrong but kids these days seem to be amazingly dense even though they think they know everything.

When I was in 5th grade, we had a computer lab class.
(This was back when they first started adding computers to schools. They were Apple IIe computers.)
We were taught how to program in Basic computer language. (This is how I am able to understand how table script works for VP.)
I remember making a program that asked your name, and a few more questions, and at the end it showed a space shuttle launching made with text.
I entered that program into the science fair, as well as an orange soaking in salt water that could light a bulb, with just wires hooked to the orange.
I think I won second place for the computer program. That was in the 5th grade.

Do they even teach kids these days computer skills? Is there a Computer Lab class these days?
I don't think there is.
What in the hell are they teaching kids in school these days?

 

[Oldschool4]

Maybe its the excessive use of Smartphones, with their auto correct spelling,people dont have to think.
My teenage daughter has trouble telling the time on a 2 handed wall clock because shes allways used Digital clock.

 

[GeorgeH]

My sister teaches college students. She says that many students know nothing about PCs. All they know about are hand helds that play games and such.

There is less and less time spent on the basics like reading, writing and arithmetic in grade schools. Some schools don't even teach students how to read an analog clock. The teachers have to make time to teach all sorts of new science. I remember my niece talking about something I didn't learn until I was in college.

There are parents that are trying to get grade schools to go back to the basics but I don't think that are having much success. I am an advocate of teaching the basics. How much is learning some of Einstein's theories going to help you in daily life? I admit there is some value in learning it at some point in your life but you have to learn the basics first.

 

[Isaac Sauvage]

I can totally understand kids today not being terribly interested in traditional PC's. The average smartphone has become such an incredibly high-tech, all-in-one computer device that the dinosaur PC model is no doubt too much effort for too little reward for lots of people. Especially if their family doesn't have an available PC for kids at home.

There's also the problem that public education across most of the USA has become a dumpster fire at this point, on par with third-world nations, mostly due to budget cut-backs. The major fallout is that in order for democracy to stay robust and healthy, it needs a critical threshold of educated, informed voters to make good voting choices. What we're seeing now in the USA is more the opposite, where choking off good education creates voting bases of quick-triggered, hot-tempered, single-issue dumbasses easily manipulated by political grifters. A very deliberate thing, sadly, going back some time.

 

[Isaac Sauvage]

...I entered that program into the science fair, as well as an orange soaking in salt water that could light a bulb, with just wires hooked to the orange.

You... you... non lemon-using heretic!

(nice, I didn't know an orange was acidic enough)

 

[Oldschool4]

Using acronyms in text messaging and social media every day surely contributes to poor spelling. Because its a shortened form of a word or phrase. (Millennial-speak)

 

[AnonTet]

Blame auto-correction spelling-tools