SOLUTION: Is it common for a 20 yr old not to know basic math skills as addition and subtraction?

Question 633056: Is it common for a 20 yr old not to know basic math skills as addition and subtraction?
Answer by solver91311(24713) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!

Gets more and more common every year. Ever since some blithering new age psycho-babble idiot decided that a person's self-esteem is the responsibility of someone other than that person so they quit holding kids back when they fail a grade, and quit rapping them on the knuckles with a ruler when they didn't turn in their homework.

John

My calculator said it, I believe it, that settles it

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