The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #59418 Message #3854182
Posted By: Stilly River Sage
09-May-17 - 11:46 PM
Thread Name: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
Figuring out retirement and pensions - that is higher math if ever I saw it.
Hey, MOM, in the last 20 minutes of our after-school tutoring program, I pulled out a copy of the local daily paper and showed my sixth grader how to read the newspaper. Most important stories above the fold, the jumps to finish them inside the section, what is in each section, how to read the weather map, what letters to the editor are, and, to her delight, a page of four-color daily comic strips. Of all the things we've worked on this semester, I think learning to read the paper might be the most important one of all. I'll bring one to each session until the end of the school year. (I just wanted MOM to know they they don't always have to be used in layers of dirt and mulch in the garden to keep weeds out of the broccoli - sometimes people do actually read them!)