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Calculators, slide rules...
Pah! Log tables every time!
Who is Bruce Willis???
They still are, nothing has changed you still have to show your workings.
(and sending a sixteen year old girl out the door with a purple and expecting change
Think he's some German thats into acting ...
As the father of two teenagers (16 & 14) it drives me absolutely nuts! "What homework have you got, then?" "Look something up on Google".
When they came out of primary school they knew their times tables, could do long(ish) addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, etc. Six months at secondary and they've forgotten how to tie their shoe laces. In fairness, the lad's quite bright so I make a point of making him do stuff in his head at home still, but I still pull my hair out sometimes when he reaches for the calculator to do some fairly basic stuff.
LOL......in the middle of writing this post ^^^ I got interrupted by girl going off to school: "Dad, can I have £4 for a new calculator please?" (they sell 'the school one' at school). "Why?" "It's run out of battery". Put a new battery in (it's like witchcraft, you know) and it's still dead so I'm not sure if I've got the right shrapnel around (and sending a sixteen year old girl out the door with a purple and expecting change is just a wasted exercise) so I throw mine at her and say borrow mine for the day and we'll sort it out later, to which she explodes in rage because "yours hasn't got the right buttons on it!!" FFS, shoot me now, I don't want to see the end of civilisation that we appear to be breeding.
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