Thread: Kid's........not even a clue !!

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Originally Posted by Don Dalton

Kids nowdays want to start at the top,and most don't have any common brain power to go with their book smarts.

IMO

What book smarts? Most that I come in contact with at work have trouble spelling their name.

I sold a lot of Dividend Bonded gas at 19.9/gallon, and I remember TV test patterns and no real show until early evening. Also, listening to various programs on the big Philco console radio before we had a TV. I remember when dirt was invented . . .

To me the scariest part of the whole "Nintendo Generation" thing is that by the 2012 elections, they'll be old enough to run for public office!!!! Can't you hear the campaign slogans, "I promise a laptop be GIVEN to eveyone on their 4th birthday and updated for FREE semi-annully".

No wonder this world is getting so messed up, we have a whole generation who (with few exceptions) even have a clue what reality is, let alone how to deal with it.... The majority seem to be stuck in their "virtual world" of computers, video games, and Ipods....

Good example, our little town used to have to have tryouts for both the Legion Baseball and VFW teener leage teams...you had to be a better then average player to make one of the travelling teams. Those who didn't make the teams played on 1 of 4 other teams in town, playing two games a week and practicing twice a week. This year, they're not sure they'll have enough kids coming out for baseball to even have both of the travelling teams, let alone the inter-city league play....

I'm not saying baseball is the only things kids should do, just using it as an example....

The city of Sioux Falls (pop. 100,000 plus) is considering DROPPING MANDATORY physical education classes after the Freshman year.....

Worst part is, the kids are not the only one's to blame..... We as adults and parents let it all happen.....

hey cherry cokes were way better from the soda fountain

This thread could have been written, with a few words changed, 40 years ago by our parents...............

"Get a haircut, hippie"

Originally Posted by poncho62

This thread could have been written, with a few words changed, 40 years ago by our parents...............

"Get a haircut, hippie"

i resemble that remark

Originally Posted by flh4speed

i resemble that remark

Me too...........I'm a 57 year old hippie, and no haircut.

Yep, this has got to be the ol " history repeats itself " that we keep hearing about. Made me laugh, when I started to recall a lot of the same things, some of you mentioned. poncho62, you hit the nail on the head. I had lots of people tell me I was going to hell in a basket when I was a kid, but I did alright. I imagine the next batch of kids will turn out ok too, in spite of us "old guys that don't know much". Oh well, they'll learn all the things "we don't know" soon enough, just like we did!! Did I mention history will repeat itself? Hey, I'm old, I can tell the same story as many times as I want!! Sniper

I just turned 60 a couple of weeks ago... I remember telephone "party lines", 29 cent gasoline, 5 cent Snickers candy bars, and a lot of stuff from "back when". Now I'm a school teacher and I can tell you that our future is in serious doubt.

We teachers can work our asses off to present the material that young people need to be competitive in the modern world and they still don't learn. Why? Because they don't want to! Why should they? Everything they want is handed to them at no cost and they can do anything they want with no consequences. Eastern countries are now kicking the USA's ass in medecine, engineering, and research because their students start out with nothing and they WANT to excell to improve their lives.

I'm just trying to survive the next two years so I can retire from teaching and move on to something else...

Originally Posted by J. Robinson

I just turned 60 a couple of weeks ago... I remember telephone "party lines", 29 cent gasoline, 5 cent Snickers candy bars, and a lot of stuff from "back when". Now I'm a school teacher and I can tell you that our future is in serious doubt.

We teachers can work our asses off to present the material that young people need to be competitive in the modern world and they still don't learn. Why? Because they don't want to! Why should they? Everything they want is handed to them at no cost and they can do anything they want with no consequences. Eastern countries are now kicking the USA's ass in medecine, engineering, and research because their students start out with nothing and they WANT to excell to improve their lives.

I'm just trying to survive the next two years so I can retire from teaching and move on to something else...

are you at least teaching them basic math? might come in handy to them someday..

Ha, ha! Yeah, most of them can count to ten OK on their fingers. Now, if you want them to make change without a calculator or read a ruler, things get dicey...

Gas wars - 12 cents a gallon. I used to put marbles in the hubcaps of people I didn't like. I'm old as dirt.
Milner

Guys I'm so old that they didn't even make cars when I was born.

Now about Kids:

I've been working side by side with 3 brothers the last few days making Maple Syrup. These kids are the cream of the crop, polite, respectful, and are hard workers, we ask them to do a certain chore and they do it till it's done, no sluffing off. They even call me Sir or Mr. Flynn. They are all home schooled and the 2 older ones are also taking college courses at the same time. They live near a golf course and two of them work there and the youngest works for a farmer and wants to become one.

When I'm volunteering at YWAM I also see some great young adults, most students are just out of high school. They have three months of intense schooling and then for two months the go to a foreign country and serve the people there and witness the love of Christ to them (when I did my outreach we went to a remote village in the Mexican mountains).

Ya I've been around the kind also, my ex-deadbeat son-in-law jerk is serving time for making Meth, he panticed when a cop pulled into the alley next to the house they were in and he dumped Colmun fuel down a drain in the basement, it exploded and killed his buddy.

IC 2 wrote: My wife is the HR director for her companies eastern branch. While they don't have much turn over, her biggest gripe is that even tho they have to have a high school diploma to even apply, most can't figure out how to fill out a simple job application without major mistakes.

That's pretty bad, but I have seen worse. The minimun hiring level for the professional staff for my field offices is a college degree. You'd be surprised at the number we get who can't do basic math, can't write a decent paragraph, or spell simple words. Read a one sentence letter the other day. Sentence was as long as a paragraph (about 125 words) with no punctuation other than the period at the end. Kids are being pushed out of high school and into colleges (or jobs) with no common sense and no ability to learn and retain. We end up either hiring 1 out of 10, or end up hiring something (?) to just fill the job so it is not lost. It is SAD.

Although I would love to be young again and know what I know today, I am still glad that I went to school in the 50's and 60's when an education was a prized thing. When getting by was not the norm and non-achievers were not rewarded. Public education in this country has gone to hell. I don't think the liberal educators will ever allow it back on track. I heard the other day where the cost per child to go to public school in the area where I work, was about $31,000 per year. That's about 5 times the cost of private school at the same age. I agree that good educators should be paid well, but poor ones should be fired and the top heavy administrations should be sliced to the bone. It has gotten ridiculous. For many working in education it has become just another form of taxpayer subsidized welfare.

If you're having a slow day just go to the local McD's or BK and order something that comes to, say $4.78. Then give the kid a ten and three pennies and watch the fun!!

He'll either look at you like your an idiot or spend 20 minutes trying to explain why you don't need to give him the pennies.