marsh man Posted 6 hours ago Report Share Posted 6 hours ago I popped in Waitrose this afternoon to do a bit of shopping and to get a refund on a reduced item I bought last week , I went to the customer service and the young girl behind the counter was one of the most pleasant and helpful girls you could wish to meet , I told her the problem and gave her my receipt , we will soon sort that out for you , this is where the fun started , the item I bought last week was 19p and the original price was £6.26 , she looked at it and couldn't work out what 19p off £6.26 was , she tried a couple of times and then got her phone out and ended up letting the phone sort it out , she was smiling all the time and I also found it quite funny. Now when I went to school we were taught the 12 times table and to read and write , t b h I was rubbish at school , good as sports but that was about it , left at 15 and was never out of work up to the day I retired , never made a fortune but made enough to take early retirement and we were never in debt apart from the mortgage , nowadays they stay on at school till they are a lot older and yet some of them can't do the basics things in life like taking 19 away from 26 , make you think who was better off , me or them Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
enfieldspares Posted 6 hours ago Report Share Posted 6 hours ago Yes. My eleven year old does. And homework on Sparx Maths. Which has old fashioned adding, subtraction, division, algebra, sequences, fractions, decimals, percentages and all the things that I did at school in the late 1960s. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marsh man Posted 5 hours ago Author Report Share Posted 5 hours ago 11 minutes ago, enfieldspares said: Yes. My eleven year old does. And homework on Sparx Maths. Which has old fashioned adding, subtraction, division, algebra, sequences, fractions, decimals, percentages and all the things that I did at school in the late 1960s. That is good to hear , we had a A , B , C and C specials class's at school , the A stream done home work and algebra , I was in the B stream and done neither home work or algebra , a mate of mine was in the A stream and ended up a floor layer , he done a lot of work for us and when we were talking about our school he said he had never quite worked out what algebra was and certainly never used it from the day he left school , so do anyone use algebra , and if they do , what is it for . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Agriv8 Posted 5 hours ago Report Share Posted 5 hours ago Yes they do maths but teachers aren’t allowed to say they got the answer wrong as it might upset tarquin . Who is not sure if he is a 1 or a 0 this week. but the parents know it the teachers fault because they don’t eat meat and the no word had been banned while tarquin was growing up and heading to school still having accidents in his pants every day ! Agriv8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miserableolgit Posted 4 hours ago Report Share Posted 4 hours ago Our two did not. We were not that impressed with the 'education' our son was receiving at school that after two years we deregistered him and home educated him. He eventually completed an engineering apprenticeship and has not stopped working since. His younger sister never went to school and was also home educated. She is currently in her last year at university. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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