Boer? Boar? Bore?

[Mini-M Ranch]

Last year we were trying to sell our rooster because he was getting aggressive toward our children. We placed an ad to sell him to a place that had no kids. Here is a serious response to the add:

I am interested in your Borfingdon rooster. Does she lay eggs yet? How many a week of eggs would we get?


Umm....so many ways of wrong.

 

[jhm47]

One of my pet peeves is when people use the wrong "two, to, too" in sentences. I even see it in newspapers and magazines from time to time. Once could be a typo, but when it's all through an article-----! Another one is that my dog has been "spade". It's spayed, not spade.

Some of our kids had a program called "vowac" in school. It was supposed to help them learn to spell better. It was a disaster, and the ones who had the "old" style of phonics are much better spellers than the ones who had the "new and improved" method.

Don't even get me started on math, weights and measures, etc. I'll bet that not one in ten knows how many square feet there are in an acre.

 

[PattiXmas]

My experience with my two kids (16 & 15) is that the schools are no longer "teaching" subjects. They are strictly teaching for the "fill in the bubble", multiple choice tests that help with funding.

I feel bad for the teachers and the students. These poor kids are headed for a disaster once they get in the "world". Parents have to step up to the plate and do their doody (sp?) to ensure that their children are educated in the areas where the schools have dropped the ball.

 

[username taken]

I'm serious here ... an ad I read tonight.

"2 wight billy gots for sale 2 to 3 years old $40 each"

also found another one that was selling deer and alpaches ...

 

[Mini-M Ranch]

My experience with my two kids (16 & 15) is that the schools are no longer "teaching" subjects. They are strictly teaching for the "fill in the bubble", multiple choice tests that help with funding.

I feel bad for the teachers and the students. These poor kids are headed for a disaster once they get in the "world". Parents have to step up to the plate and do their doody (sp?) to ensure that their children are educated in the areas where the schools have dropped the ball.

Yes, ITA! And don't forget that even the simplest math must be done with a calculator! Seriously, in our public school system, there are chapters in the 3rd grade math book that teach how to use a calculator for addition and subtraction!

And people "worry" about my homeschooled children...

I assure you folks, they will be a-okay.

 

[PattiXmas]

My experience with my two kids (16 & 15) is that the schools are no longer "teaching" subjects. They are strictly teaching for the "fill in the bubble", multiple choice tests that help with funding.

I feel bad for the teachers and the students. These poor kids are headed for a disaster once they get in the "world". Parents have to step up to the plate and do their doody (sp?) to ensure that their children are educated in the areas where the schools have dropped the ball.

Yes, ITA! And don't forget that even the simplest math must be done with a calculator! Seriously, in our public school system, there are chapters in the 3rd grade math book that teach how to use a calculator for addition and subtraction!

And people "worry" about my homeschooled children...

I assure you folks, they will be a-okay.

We discovered a few weeks ago that my daughter couldn't do long division without a calculator!!! She gets very good grades, but when they were working on building our barn & pens, she couldn't do the math without a calculator! We took her phone/calculator away and showed her how to do it the right way!

Now my son, is two grades ahead of her. He doesn't get good marks in school, but he can do math!!! His problem is that he doesn't turn in the homework assignments. We made him do the math long hand and show all the work. He got in "trouble" for having sloppy papers and was told not to show his work anymore. We remedied that by using a scratch piece of paper. I cannot believe the teachers didn't want to see how he got his answer. I guess because they were expecting him to use a calculator like the rest of his classmates.

(Edited to add - Oh yeah, I forgot - my kids don't even have books for most of their classes!!! I was a bit shocked and angry when trying to help my daughter with her homework and there was NO book! Where does all our money go for the schools? They aren't buying books, they aren't supplying paper, pencils, etc. They cut the music programs, the art programs (not the sports though!), so where really is our money going??)

 

[Roll farms]

Just like pilots used to be able to fly an airplane by reading their gages (gauges for those who prefer that spelling)....now it's all done by computer.
Mechanics could repair cars with a wrench and screwdriver...now you have to hook it up to a machine so IT can tell you what's wrong.

But...What do we expect when the majority of us have a phone that tells us when to turn right and left (map, who needs a map??) and we track our family members that way as well. Why come home and ask what's for dinner when you can text and say you'll be somewhere else anyway.

(When I was a kid, my mom yelled for us out the back door. If we didn't come home, we got are butts spanked. If we weren't there on time to eat, we went hungry...And we survived it.)

I truly think technology will be the downfall of our society.

 

[no nonsense]

A 'boar' is a male hog.
To 'bore' something means (1) to drill a hole into; (2) to make somebody lose interest in something.
A "Boer" is a breed of goat, for goodness sakes.

Why in the world I am getting emails asking about my Boar and Bore goats?

Does this drive anybody else crazy?

I didn't think that there were any sensible people left.

I hate:

Billy and nanny
Cows, when they mean cattle
Chickens, when they mean hens
"Roo", unless you happen to be a kangaroo breeder, or a two year old child
Boys and girls, or ladies, or gals, instead of male, female, cock, hen, rooster, bull, cow, heifer, filly, etc.
Using hatchery marketing or promotional terms geared toward the ignorant, and expecting the rest of the world to comply, such as "Turken", New Hampshire "Red", "Easter Egger", etc.
Don't even get me started on "Americana" chickens, instead of Araucana or Ameraucana, and knowing the difference.
Made up abbreviations for breeds or varieties.
All this texting speak: c u L8er

 

[cmjust0]

My experience with my two kids (16 & 15) is that the schools are no longer "teaching" subjects. They are strictly teaching for the "fill in the bubble", multiple choice tests that help with funding.

I feel bad for the teachers and the students. These poor kids are headed for a disaster once they get in the "world". Parents have to step up to the plate and do their doody (sp?) to ensure that their children are educated in the areas where the schools have dropped the ball.

When I was a kid...I'm 31, so not that long ago ...the state of public education was viewed by adults in much the same way as it seems to be viewed today. Teachers are teaching strictly to tests...rote memorization...kids aren't actually learning anything...just wait until they get into the real world...blah blah blah.

Thing is, that argument only seemed to be valid right up until the moment when I asked for help with homework. I was in Algebra in 8th grade...neither of my parents ever had Algebra. Ever. Geometry? "Pie are squared? What are you talking about?!?"

Chemistry? Computer Science? Pre-calculus? By the time I was at that level, I was waaaaaay beyond even bothering to ask anymore.. I knew better..

Now...as for the age-old "calculator issue" that invariably comes up in conversations like this, I'd hazard a guess that if any of you were to walk in to a job interview at Intel or Boeing and say "I do all my math on paper -- no calculators for me!" with a big proud smile on your face, the interviewer would probably write the words "TIME WASTER" on your resume......or maybe just throw it straight in the trash before peering around you to yell "NEXT!"

That's because "in the real world" of today, one's continued employment is directly linked to one's ability to produce. If it takes you twice as long as your peers to do your job because you insist on doing long division on paper, guess who's getting axed in the next round of 'right-sizing?'

Of course, if the plan is to make a career of fast-food cashiering or something like that, I'd highly recommend shunning calculators altogether and really learning to do math on paper.. That way, if the register goes down, you can have one shining moment of absolute respect and admiration as the only cashier in the history of mankind who actually knew how to do math on paper. People will marvel at your bravery...your courage to forge ahead in the face of a near-apocolyptic technological breakdown...your indefatigable work ethic...your sheer will to succeed in the face of seemingly insurmountable odds....your inimitable.....

Oh, it's back up? Already? But I only took like three orders.. Okay, Sir, yelling isn't going to make the fries cook faster...

 

[Mini-M Ranch]

My experience with my two kids (16 & 15) is that the schools are no longer "teaching" subjects. They are strictly teaching for the "fill in the bubble", multiple choice tests that help with funding.

I feel bad for the teachers and the students. These poor kids are headed for a disaster once they get in the "world". Parents have to step up to the plate and do their doody (sp?) to ensure that their children are educated in the areas where the schools have dropped the ball.

When I was a kid...I'm 31, so not that long ago ...the state of public education was viewed by adults in much the same way as it seems to be viewed today. Teachers are teaching strictly to tests...rote memorization...kids aren't actually learning anything...just wait until they get into the real world...blah blah blah.

Thing is, that argument only seemed to be valid right up until the moment when I asked for help with homework. I was in Algebra in 8th grade...neither of my parents ever had Algebra. Ever. Geometry? "Pie are squared? What are you talking about?!?"

Chemistry? Computer Science? Pre-calculus? By the time I was at that level, I was waaaaaay beyond even bothering to ask anymore.. I knew better..

Now...as for the age-old "calculator issue" that invariably comes up in conversations like this, I'd hazard a guess that if any of you were to walk in to a job interview at Intel or Boeing and say "I do all my math on paper -- no calculators for me!" with a big proud smile on your face, the interviewer would probably write the words "TIME WASTER" on your resume......or maybe just throw it straight in the trash before peering around you to yell "NEXT!"

That's because "in the real world" of today, one's continued employment is directly linked to one's ability to produce. If it takes you twice as long as your peers to do your job because you insist on doing long division on paper, guess who's getting axed in the next round of 'right-sizing?'

Of course, if the plan is to make a career of fast-food cashiering or something like that, I'd highly recommend shunning calculators altogether and really learning to do math on paper.. That way, if the register goes down, you can have one shining moment of absolute respect and admiration as the only cashier in the history of mankind who actually knew how to do math on paper. People will marvel at your bravery...your courage to forge ahead in the face of a near-apocolyptic technological breakdown...your indefatigable work ethic...your sheer will to succeed in the face of seemingly insurmountable odds....your inimitable.....

Oh, it's back up? Already? But I only took like three orders.. Okay, Sir, yelling isn't going to make the fries cook faster...

Is this post for real? I am 30, and I generally dislike most people from "my generation" and younger because they have such an "I know how to use the computer and proper text abbreviations so I am smarter and better than you" attitude. That's all I will say about that.

What happened when Katrina hit New Orleans...they HAD to do PAPER and PENCIL to purchase gas and order supplies, etc. because the technology didn't work. Glad somebody down there knew how to do math on paper.

Sure, technology is important in TODAY'S world. A whole lot of things are given far more emphasis in today's world than they should be. It isn't the be all, end all. And it isn't funny, either.

Sorry, I am sick of hearing how "old ways" are "dumb ways"