What are our kids being taught these days?

[littlespark]

So this happened today:-

My daughter texts me from school asking if its ok to put a 100W bulb (her word, not mine) when it says 60W Max?
I replied no, it'll be too hot. Fire risk.

When she gets home, I asked her about it.
Apparently for a biology experiment, in photosynthesis. She said the teacher told them to use the 100W anyway.

So the teacher is telling the kids to ignore warning signs on the equipment?
No wonder the world is full of obnoxious little sh*tes that think the rules don't apply to them.

Rant over

 

[Squid]

I went to school via the sweet shop funnily enough this one,

maybe pop in to home for lunch as the school dinners where sh1te, then back home later, I suppose if I wanted to contact home I could run there and back in the toilet break or from when picking up the warm milk that had been sat in the sun or even maybe scribbled a note and attached it to the carrier pigeons leg.......

 

[KEV 1 N]

Yeah, they're allowed phones in some classes. This isn't the dark ages, you know.
When I was first in school, they still had blackboards and chalk... then whiteboards, felt pens and the big orange and white overhead projector.
Now its all interactive projection screens off a computer.

When I was at junior school, we had blackboards as well and the desks were old wooden ones with a lift up lid type, with an ink well (not that it was used!)
There was one...yes ONE computer for the entire school! It was on a mobile desk so it could be wheeled about the classrooms

 

[freddo]

We had a few BBC Micros at school. I remember when one of the teachers went mad cos one of the kids had left one of the 51/4" disks on the radiator and it now looked like the roof from a model house.

 

[littlespark]

Good ol' BBC Acorn computers. Took the 7 inch floppy's (don't!) rather than a cassette.
Even at uni I could get all my coursework on half a dozen 1.44Mb disks. Now you need a 8Gb USB flash

 

[Spoon]

I remember doing Computer Studies at school. We had to write out our programs (Basic) on grid paper. One character per grid. This then got send off to the Uni and you the got the result back the next week... If you put one character wrong then you didn't find out about it until the next lesson. You then changed the mistake and then has to wait another week for the results..
Out teacher had a ZX80. He has a chess program on it. He told us that the comp took overnight to make it's move.

 

[telectrix]

computers in a school.? unheard of in my day. even calculators weren't invented for another 15 years after i left secondary school.

 

[Pete999]

computers in a school.? unheard of in my day. even calculators weren't invented for another 15 years after i left secondary school.

Morning Tel

 

[Squid]

computers in a school.? unheard of in my day. even calculators weren't invented for another 15 years after i left secondary school.

 

[telectrix]

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that's what the boys at the private school had. we had to make our own from bits if scrap wood.

 

[pirate]

At my school we attained the height of sophistication by using...
slide rules!
I remember my father getting very annoyed at having to pay out £30 for mine...that was a lot of money in 1970...
and I still have it! It's a collectors item, and the same model is traded frequently on ebay

 

[telectrix]

stillgotmine from college. a faber castell with a kW/HP conversion scale.

 

[Squid]

stillgotmine from college. a faber castell with a kW/HP conversion scale.

You did 3 months for theft didn't you for that.

 

[telectrix]

You did 3 months for theft didn't you for that.

you can talk" you londoners were the biggest thieves in the country.
Criminals of the Blitz - https://www.historyextra.com/period/second-world-war/criminals-of-the-blitz/

 

[Squid]

you can talk" you londoners were the biggest thieves in the country.
Criminals of the Blitz - https://www.historyextra.com/period/second-world-war/criminals-of-the-blitz/

Ahhhh but the Russians interned my Mothers family in a concentration camp in Siberia at that time and my Father was busy in the Merchant Navy risking life and limb while the British where running away to Dunkirk ;o))))))

Must be your relatives ---

 

[telectrix]

small world. mrs.tel's mother has been awarded the Siberia medal for the same trip, courtesy of the russkies. and my dad was RAF 1940-45. As he was a teacher and was not subject to call-up, he volunteered. and the Brits only retreated to Dunkirk because the frogs were useless. also, I had ( he's been dead 30 years ) a Polish uncle by marriage who was initially Polish army, captured by the krauts, escaped, and joined the British Army. I still have his cap badge, Polish eagle with crown.