Have a daughter named Madison?

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Mousebaby said:
None of this surprises me with the way they just push these kids through high school. Apparently they don't care how dumb their future president may be. :shrug:
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Idiocracy

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Private Joe Bauers, the definition of "average American", is selected by the Pentagon to be the guinea pig for a top-secret hibernation program. Forgotten, he awakes 500 years in the future. He discovers a society so incredibly dumbed-down that he's easily the most intelligent person alive.
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baileydog

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sommpd said:
Ok, at least you agree it's ok to take someone elses property if someone makes a mistake. So if your kid is at home and mistakenly gives a deliveryman the wrong amount of money, you won't complain to the company that the evil deliveryman took your money. The appropriate thing to do in the case of getting the wrong change at a business is to complain to the manager so the employee can be trained or terminated instead of stealing the business owners money!
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If my kid did that, Id smack him for being stupid. I mean, come on, how freaking hard is it to count money.
 
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czygvtwkr said:
Another story but comes from McDonalds. A lady in front of me orders herself a meal and her daughter a happy meal. The girl running the register some how ended up with $18 something on the register. The woman protested and said wait a minute my meal is only $5 and my daughters is $3 something. The girl at the register said but yea there is tax. The woman said yes but its not almost $10. The girl at the register replied Im not very good at that kind of thing.

These are no way isolated incidents. My parents never saw algebra when they were in high school but they were taught how to balance a checkbook, make change, and even calculate interest. They really need to teach these skills to those that are obviously not going to college. However there are plenty of kids that do go on to college that still need those skills. There is no excuse to be that mentally lazy. Unless you have some sort of learning disability saying im no good at math is just laziness.
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How someone doesn't understand that they have charged someone an extra 10 bucks for "tax" is beyond me (that seems to be more of a common sense issue than math!) I will say this to everyone....while in high school I was taken off registers at the restaurants I worked at because I have a history of transposing numbers ($1.07 in change becomes $7.01). I have great difficulty reciting long sequences of numbers, especially if they're mixed up with letters, and even while concentrating hard in order to write the '6' out of '601' I will often begin to write '1'. Entering phone numbers usually takes two or three tries until success. While I have taken advanced mathematics, I always have to take longer than the rest of the class and need to double check absolutely every little number and sign. It's very tedious, but I eventually get it done. I didn't have this extra time on a register where customers, of course, want to be dealt with immediately. It was always embarrassing to screw up someone's change, especially on something very simple and appear to be a “Madison”. I feel like I got the short end of the stick as I come from a family of math whizzes! :lmao:
 
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hammishsqueak said:
How someone doesn't understand that they have charged someone an extra 10 bucks for "tax" is beyond me (that seems to be more of a common sense issue than math!) I will say this to everyone....while in high school I was taken off registers at the restaurants I worked at because I have a history of transposing numbers ($1.07 in change becomes $7.01). I have great difficulty reciting long sequences of numbers, especially if they're mixed up with letters, and even while concentrating hard in order to write the '6' out of '601' I will often begin to write '1'. Entering phone numbers usually takes two or three tries until success. While I have taken advanced mathematics, I always have to take longer than the rest of the class and need to double check absolutely every little number and sign. It's very tedious, but I eventually get it done. I didn't have this extra time on a register where customers, of course, want to be dealt with immediately. It was always embarrassing to screw up someone's change, especially on something very simple and appear to be a “Madison”. I feel like I got the short end of the stick as I come from a family of math whizzes! :lmao:
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This is an entirely different situation. When I was a graduate student I taught freshmen and sophomore level classes and I could tell the students that would do bad from their attitude. I can't tell you how many times I heard "Im just not good at....." If someone has already decided that then there is no helping them, they will not learn, they will never get better.

Bravo for you for not taking this attitude.
 
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baileydog said:
If my kid did that, Id smack him for being stupid. I mean, come on, how freaking hard is it to count money.
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Ok, blame the kid! I don't have any problem with that. But taking the money, that you know is not yours, hurts the business owner who is trying to earn a living. How is that right? If you gave someone something by mistake, wouldn't you want them to be honest and give it back?
 
keekee

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Picking on this poor kid, and naming her too... I'd point out the grammar and spelling errors in these posts, but it would take too long. Including your first post APS. We're always so quick to point out the faults of others aren't we. :rolleyes: Math is very important, but so is English.
 
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keekee said:
Picking on this poor kid, and naming her too... I'd point out the grammar and spelling errors in these posts, but it would take too long. Including your first post APS. We're always so quick to point out the faults of others aren't we. :rolleyes: Math is very important, but so is English.
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We could point out your grammar and punctuation mistakes as well.
 
SoMDGirl42

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apparently Madison has a brother that works at the Hollywood Burchmart. Took forever for him to figure out how to give back the correct change to a customer when he gave the extra change. The customer finally had to tell him he owed him 15 dollars back. :faint: Then the customer actually had the nerve to ask for a receipt for his gas. He still didn't have the receipt when I finally walked out of the door. :duh:
 
whome20603

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keekee said:
Picking on this poor kid, and naming her too...spaceI'd point out the grammar and spelling errors in these posts, but it would take too long. Including your first post APS. We're always so quick to point out the faults of others aren't we. :rolleyes: Math is very important, but so is English.
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There should be no comma after "kid" before "and", no space after "..." before "I'd", no comma between "posts" and "but", "Including your first post APS." is a fragment, there should be a question mark after "aren't we" rather than a period and there should be no comma between "important" and "but". :biggrin:

I agree, English is very important :razz:
 
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Let's take a step back folks. This family named their kid after a mermaid in a movie (Splash). The mermaid took her name from a street sign. How bright do you expect the kid to be.

Of course if the kid looks like Daryl Hannah and can act like her, then math skills aren't as important.:whistle:
 
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