----- Original Message ----- From: Belle Shepherd To: [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, February 24, 2010 7:52 PM Subject: Re: [KYHeritageFolklore] School subjects... Hello all, Every year, this country is floodedwith thousands of 'uneducated Graduates' from various schools, colleges, etc. Going through school and getting a Diploma was all important and most of the time a guarantee of employment. Not anymore. Your Diploma was saying you were now EDUCATED.Not anymore! At one time I was in the position of checking application for new employees for the company. Handwriting and spelling were very important. One can really discover character traits in a person by checking on these. Many of the applications went in the 'round file' , others to be gone over and given to our Supervisor for more checking. One day I had an application that interested me more than others. The old blanks had a space to report you religion, this applicant had tried to spell Presbyterian , gave it up, crossed it out and printed BABTEST. Another applicant was applying for Assistant Bookkeeper. I took her into my office, sat her down with an adding machine and asked her to make tapes of the colunmns in the Invoice ledger. After awhile she handed me several tapes, One was the charges to our store, one was the retail price of the item, one was shipping costs, one was the date and the last but not least was one of thhe Invoice numer. She almost an out of tape on that one. I had to call the boss in on that one, he hired her and sent her out to the stockroom to help open boxes. A nice lady but not qualified for the bookkeeping position. Belle ----- Original Message ----- From: Lee BabbittJR To: [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, February 24, 2010 8:24 AM Subject: Re: [KYHeritageFolklore] School subjects... Ohh Your Right ThereWanda , there Pushing them Through as fast as the can , Heck They cant even Spell Time withouta computer or digit , what happens to all of us if our Alliens Knock out our SATALITES , no one thinks about that, love ya --- On Wed, 24/2/10, Wanda Shepherd <[email protected]> wrote: From: Wanda Shepherd <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [KYHeritageFolklore] School subjects... To: [email protected] Date: Wednesday, 24 February, 2010, 8:42 Sometimes I wonder...... ......... ......... ... I'm sorry, and no offense to retired teachers, but some of the ones here are buttheads!! I know more than they do, or else they just don't want to work with the kids. --- On Tue, 2/23/10, Anna Marie Rahfeldt <[email protected] yahoo.com> wrote: From: Anna Marie Rahfeldt <[email protected] yahoo.com> Subject: Re: [KYHeritageFolklore ] School subjects... To: [email protected] yahoogroups. com Date: Tuesday, February 23, 2010, 5:40 PM of course the teachers are teaching smarter. --- On Tue, 2/23/10, Wanda Shepherd <[email protected] yahoo.com> wrote: From: Wanda Shepherd <[email protected] yahoo.com> Subject: Re: [KYHeritageFolklore ] School subjects... To: [email protected] yahoogroups. com Date: Tuesday, February 23, 2010, 4:14 PM I'm lucky if I can read my kids work. They ask for my help, and nothing was the same as it was when I went to school!!! --- On Tue, 2/23/10, Mary Richmond <[email protected] net> wrote: From: Mary Richmond <[email protected] net> Subject: Re: [KYHeritageFolklore ] School subjects... To: [email protected] yahoogroups. com Date: Tuesday, February 23, 2010, 1:15 PM Penmanship was important when I was in grade school. At that time I attended a two room school. I suppose our assignment in penmanship kept us busy while the teacher worked with the uppergrades. You know, I think we learned from the teacher repeating over and over to the upper grades. Many of our uppergrade boys had been dismissed throught the corn planting times and the sorgum making season to help with the farm work. I think we lower grades got extra teaching as we reviewed with the upper grades before we even reached the upper grades. In fact I think it was ok teaching in those days. The three "Rs" worked well for many of us. Mary Are 'penmanship, Handwriting being taught in today's schools?It was very important to be able to write well in my school days. They taught the Palmer method and we had many drills and practice sheets. Many of the young folks today can't spell or write their own name clearly. I learned to write very well and spelling was not a problem. Today, words of more than one syllable are hard to spell and pronounce. What about the multiplication tables? With all the electronic gadgets I guess they don't need to know them anymore. Punctuation marks ? 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Belle, I know what you mean. When I graduated from college I had my BA degree in education & I was ready to teach any grade K-9. I know today it seems like young people walk away with a diploma & they aren't able to do much. Makes one wonder why they ever bothered to attend college. In addition, if they didn't pay for their own college education, I bet after all that their parents had paid out for them to go to college, it was a big disappointment to the parents if their child couldn't do anything worth while. I would have loved to have been a mouse in the corner when you were interviewing those gals...especially the one who wanted the position of a bookkeeper. Makes one wonder how they would come to a place like they did thinking that they would be eligible for a position. I mailed an e-mail to the So-Chat Group about a young girl who was a cashier at a drive-up window at a McDonalds. The patron gave the cashier extra money so that it would make it easier on the cashier. Well, this gal got all confused & said that she couldn't give change like that. She even went & got her supervisor & the supervisor told the patron that they didn't do business like that. Hard to believe how either of these people got the jobs which they did. Belle, you are on that list..once you read what I sent out, you will understand what I'm talking about. I just shake my head when I see people do some of the things that they do nowadays. The people who are cashiers in stores really don't have to use their brains. They just scan the item & it goes into the register. Makes you wonder what they would do if they had an old time cash register...or better yet, a cash box. I worked with a cash box when I was a cashier in an old restaurant near my home between when I was attending college. That meant that I had to use my brain & watch the money carefully when it came in. ~J ----- Original Message ----- From: "Belle Shepherd" <belleshe[email protected]> To: <[email protected]>; <[email protected]>; <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, February 24, 2010 8:01 PM Subject: [SOUTHERN-CHAT] Fw: [KYHeritageFolklore] School subjects... > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Belle Shepherd > To: [email protected] > Sent: Wednesday, February 24, 2010 7:52 PM > Subject: Re: [KYHeritageFolklore] School subjects... > > > Hello all, > Every year, this country is floodedwith thousands of 'uneducated > Graduates' from various schools, colleges, etc. Going through school and > getting a Diploma was all important and most of the time a guarantee of > employment. Not anymore. Your Diploma was saying you were now > EDUCATED.Not anymore! > > At one time I was in the position of checking application for new > employees for the company. Handwriting and spelling were very important. > One can really discover character traits in a person by checking on these. > Many of the applications went in the 'round file' , others to be gone over > and given to our Supervisor for more checking. One day I had an > application that interested me more than others. The old blanks had a > space to report you religion, this applicant had tried to spell > Presbyterian , gave it up, crossed it out and printed BABTEST. > Another applicant was applying for Assistant Bookkeeper. I took her into > my office, sat her down with an adding machine and asked her to make tapes > of the colunmns in the Invoice ledger. After awhile she handed me several > tapes, One was the charges to our store, one was the retail price of the > item, one was shipping costs, one was the date and the last but not least > was one of thhe Invoice numer. She almost an out of tape on that one. I > had to call the boss in on that one, he hired her and sent her out to the > stockroom to help open boxes. A nice lady but not qualified for the > bookkeeping position. > > Belle > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Lee BabbittJR > To: [email protected] > Sent: Wednesday, February 24, 2010 8:24 AM > Subject: Re: [KYHeritageFolklore] School subjects... > > > > Ohh Your Right ThereWanda , there Pushing them Through as fast as > the can , Heck They cant even Spell Time withouta computer or digit , > what happens to all of us if our Alliens Knock out our SATALITES , no > one thinks about that, love ya > > --- On Wed, 24/2/10, Wanda Shepherd <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > From: Wanda Shepherd <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [KYHeritageFolklore] School subjects... > To: [email protected] > Date: Wednesday, 24 February, 2010, 8:42 > > > > Sometimes I wonder...... ......... ......... ... > I'm sorry, and no offense to retired teachers, but some > of the ones here are buttheads!! > I know more than they do, or else they just don't want to > work with the kids. > > --- On Tue, 2/23/10, Anna Marie Rahfeldt <[email protected] > yahoo.com> wrote: > > > From: Anna Marie Rahfeldt <[email protected] yahoo.com> > Subject: Re: [KYHeritageFolklore ] School subjects... > To: [email protected] yahoogroups. com > Date: Tuesday, February 23, 2010, 5:40 PM > > > > of course the teachers are teaching smarter. > > --- On Tue, 2/23/10, Wanda Shepherd > <[email protected] yahoo.com> wrote: > > > From: Wanda Shepherd <[email protected] yahoo.com> > Subject: Re: [KYHeritageFolklore ] School > subjects... > To: [email protected] yahoogroups. com > Date: Tuesday, February 23, 2010, 4:14 PM > > > > I'm lucky if I can read my kids work. They > ask for my help, and nothing was the same as it was when I went to > school!!! > > > --- On Tue, 2/23/10, Mary Richmond > <[email protected] net> wrote: > > > From: Mary Richmond <[email protected] > net> > Subject: Re: [KYHeritageFolklore ] School > subjects... > To: [email protected] yahoogroups. com > Date: Tuesday, February 23, 2010, 1:15 PM > > > > > > > Penmanship was important when I was in > grade school. At that time I attended a two room school. I suppose our > assignment in penmanship kept us busy while the teacher worked with the > uppergrades. You know, I think we learned from the teacher repeating over > and over to the upper grades. Many of our uppergrade boys had been > dismissed throught the corn planting times and the sorgum making season to > help with the farm work. I think we lower grades got extra teaching as we > reviewed with the upper grades before we even reached the upper grades. > In fact I think it was ok teaching in those days. The three "Rs" worked > well for many of us. > Mary > > > > Are 'penmanship, Handwriting being > taught in today's schools?It was very important to be able to write well > in my school days. They taught the Palmer method and we had many drills > and practice sheets. > Many of the young folks today can't spell > or write their own name clearly. > I learned to write very well and spelling > was not a problem. Today, words of more than one syllable are hard to > spell and pronounce. > > What about the multiplication tables? With > all the electronic gadgets I guess they don't need to know them anymore. > > Punctuation marks ? Forget it!! > > Belle > > > > > > > > > > > > __._,_.___ > Reply to sender | Reply to group > Messages in this topic (9) > Recent Activity: a.. 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