Addendum to yesterday's post
Jun. 13th, 2006 08:17 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
plonqGiven some of the responses, I decided that this warranted a follow-up post.
To clarify, I am not siding with the snarky customers who were taking pot-shots at the girls who couldn't figure out their change. Taking sarcastic jabs at a retail employee who is caught in an unexpected bind accomplishes nothing and simply reveals you as an asshole. The girl who posted the original entry had obviously never been trained in how to manually count change, but that's not the point of my previous post.
My point of concern was with the people who were responding in the thread, some of them admitted university graduates, who argued that manually counting change was too complex to be learned because math is hard. One might be excused if, on reading their remarks, one thought that the discussion centred on proving Fermat's last theorem rather than simply counting up by 5s and 10s.
Our schools are failing us.
To clarify, I am not siding with the snarky customers who were taking pot-shots at the girls who couldn't figure out their change. Taking sarcastic jabs at a retail employee who is caught in an unexpected bind accomplishes nothing and simply reveals you as an asshole. The girl who posted the original entry had obviously never been trained in how to manually count change, but that's not the point of my previous post.
My point of concern was with the people who were responding in the thread, some of them admitted university graduates, who argued that manually counting change was too complex to be learned because math is hard. One might be excused if, on reading their remarks, one thought that the discussion centred on proving Fermat's last theorem rather than simply counting up by 5s and 10s.
Our schools are failing us.
