Overheard at work...

[kybearfuzz]

Sorry about the multiple posts, but I just overheard this and had to share.

One of our student workers was on the phone with her mom and asked, "Mom is a quarter of an hour like a 1/3 of an hour?"

I hope she figures it out quickly, she has to make it to her COLLEGE classes at noon.

*Shakes head and rolls eyes*

Comments

[mississippicub.livejournal.com]

Listen... I had senior education major in my physical science class I taught once that never heard of the metric system.. "what is a centemeter? it like those inch things?"

[kybearfuzz.livejournal.com]

OMG! I have a vision of Elle Woods from Legally Blonde saying something like that.

[hylandr.livejournal.com]

I really wonder about some college kids. When I taught at a community college, I had students complain because I expected them to know how many days there were in a month.

[scorpiocub.livejournal.com]

I WANT A CLUE BAT ICON I WANT I WANT I WANT except I need a Clue Phone -- b/c it's ringing and it's for HER!

[hylandr.livejournal.com]

LOL Well, if you want to use the clue bat icon I made, feel free. :)

[scifibear99.livejournal.com]

That is scary. We have a girl here at work that thought a quarter past meant 25 after.

[kybearfuzz.livejournal.com]

LOL.. my brother did that once. It took forever to convince him differently.. he had just had a brain fart I guess.

[cmorley.livejournal.com]

As if I wasn't frightened enough of the upcoming generation.

[sweetjimmyto.livejournal.com]

There's only so much one can blame on the school system (so here's another). What bothers me most is that the marginal kids just get handed on down the line. No one tries to help them because no one wants to be burdened. Little Suzie's grade 2 teacher noticed she wasn't catching on with fractions, but she did well enough with the other stuff ... and that legacy gets passed to the next teacher.

It's a shame no one really notices this until the kids hit the "real world" and it's already too late because they already hold positions as heads of state.

[scorpiocub.livejournal.com]

SHE DID NOT?!?!?!?!

[kybearfuzz.livejournal.com]

LOL.. do you know how frightening the upcoming generations are :)

[neenie13.livejournal.com]

I have an online friend who teaches math at the college level....and when he asked for the lowest common denominator for the following, he got some interesting answers....this was one.

6:36

The answer the student wrote was...
6:36 = 1

Poor Lee comes into our chat frequently, mostly to bang his head on his desk so at least *some* people with sense will sympathize.

The future is in serious trouble. ....of the Apocolyptic kind, if you catch my drift. :(