My mom doesn’t get around that well anymore. She was in the supermarket yesterday and asked a twenty-something employee to help her get a one pound bag of flour from a high shelf.
Here was the high school graduate’s response:
Ma’am, there are no one pound bags up there, only 16 ounces.
I hate to pick on this kid because he was very nice to my mother. But seriously, I knew that 16 ounces equalled one pound when I was five.
I don’t know if this chap received his diploma from a public high school or not. My guess is that he did.
But if high school students can qualify for high school diplomas without being required to know that 16 ounces is equal to one pound, the taxpayers are being ripped off every bit as surely as the investors in Enron, Adelphia and WorldCom were ripped off.
And the teachers who are not teaching our children are overpaid.
It’s time to perp-walk some bureaucrats, don’t you think?
3 responses so far ↓
1 Heather Villa // Jul 2, 2010 at 5:33 am
Unfortunately this doesn’t surprise me too much. God forbid the cash register break. It’s a rare day when a young person can count change back to you.
2 Richard Keyt // Jul 2, 2010 at 11:39 am
My wife bought a pair of shoes last week at a nationally known department store. The clerk rang up the purchase price twice because my wife was buying two shoes. She didn’t know that shoes are sold as a pair.
Here’s some questions to ask young people:
1. Who is buried in Grant’s tomb?
2. Who wrote the autobiography of Ben Franklin?
3. Where is the Panama canal?
3 Peter // Jul 2, 2010 at 2:14 pm
The clerk is probably a college student.
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