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@ThrillaRilla369 0. money didn’t make my problems, so it probably wouldn’t solve them.
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🚨 DAD TEACHES HIS DAUGHTER MATH — SCHOOL FAILS HER FOR GETTING THE RIGHT ANSWER
A 4th grader was struggling so bad with multiplication she was coming home crying.
The school had her breaking numbers into boxes and doing confusing cross maneuvers she couldn’t grasp.
Her dad stepped in and taught her the way he learned.
It clicked instantly.
Test day came and she only missed TWO questions.
Should’ve been a 92%.
She got a 50%.
Why?
Because she didn’t use the box method.
She got the answers right but they were marked wrong anyway.
Her dad went to the school and pushed back, the principal admitted there’s more than one way to solve it.
Grade got fixed.
But now his wife says he went too far.
If the answer is right, does the method even matter?
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@liz_churchill10 just found out that they pay more in fuel taxes than actual fuel. wtf 😳
i’d be mad too.
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According to the most recent U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics data on educational attainment for workers 25+ in the "fast food and counter workers" occupation (which includes baristas), 14.7% hold a bachelor's degree.
This lines up with O*NET and other labor analyses showing the majority (around 70%) have a high school diploma or less.
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The narrative of the "Starbucks barista with a useless terminal humanities degree" is both hyperbole and a metonym for the general sense of disappointment and disillusionment a big chunk of the lumpenintelligentsia have experienced. It's less that they are working service jobs and more that they are working at shitty community colleges in Podunk nowhere towns teaching remedial English to glassy-eyed former meth addicts instead of doing Serious Academic Research at an Ivy, which they feel is their birthright.
Eric Levitz@EricLevitz
College grads have been “prolentarianized": Universities minted too many knowledge workers, and now they're working at Starbucks in unprecedented numbers. This is a popular narrative. But it isn't quite right. In truth, recent college grads today are *more* likely to hold a job that requires a degree -- and *less* likely to have a low-wage service job -- than they were in the mid-1990s vox.com/politics/48505…
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