In many ways, children today are accused of being sheltered little cupcakes who have no idea what it is like to face adversity. Everyone has the grandpa or great-uncle that will tell you how they had to walk five miles to school in the freezing snow — uphill both ways, of course. These pampered little kids today have no idea what it was like.
But children going through school in 2016 also must deal with plenty of unfathomably ridiculous injustices that their parents and grandparents never had to endure. Things such as Common Core math problems, symposiums on white privilege, lectures about microaggressions, the bigotry of “gendered language,” and the confusion over why boys are suddenly allowed in the girls’ restrooms.
So yes, while children today are sheltered from many things, stupidity is not one of them.
Recently, a 13-year-old student at a Houston-area middle school became the subject of a full-scale forgery investigation when she tried to pay for her chicken fingers with a $2 bill.
To read about the ridiculous lengths to which the school district’s police department went in their investigation, and to learn their findings, continue reading on the next page:
Unbelievable? Have they heard of silver dollars?
Seriously??? I thought these were intelligent people who knew what a $2 bill is….wow!
We give these to our grandkids every Christmas! They love it
ASk any young person today to count the change back to you. That is very interesting. They have no clue what you are t alking about
Rick
They don’t teach this information in school using Common Core Math.
Wow
You can still get these at any bank branch, you just have to ask
And they are teaching our kids what.
Delores Zale I used to work at a McD’s when I was in my 40’s( not much work in our rural area)…anyway, I was sooo amazed at the teenagers that couldn’t do that. I grew up in 50’s n 60’s and that’s all we knew….we didn’t have these cash register that ” tells you” how much change to give back!!! It was very hard for me to break the habit of ” counting back change”!