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minus-squareBearOfaTime@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up0·edit-22 months agoHell, I’m old enough to be a parent/grandparent to most of Lemmy, and I learned metric over 40 years ago…in a small rural US grade school. Guess what - back then the UK still hadn’t fully settled on metric, they didn’t “fully” convert until the mid-80’s if I remember right. And they still use feet, mph, stone, etc, as they choose. This whole metric arrogance thing is tiresome (and I vastly prefer it for many things, because of Base 10, so really it’s a Base 10 preference).
minus-square5oap10116@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 months agoI’m an american and I’m generally agreeing with you but our education system is trash mostly because of consistently lowering standards just so everyone passes. Don’t get me started on the funding and peivate/charter schools though.
Hell, I’m old enough to be a parent/grandparent to most of Lemmy, and I learned metric over 40 years ago…in a small rural US grade school.
Guess what - back then the UK still hadn’t fully settled on metric, they didn’t “fully” convert until the mid-80’s if I remember right.
And they still use feet, mph, stone, etc, as they choose.
This whole metric arrogance thing is tiresome (and I vastly prefer it for many things, because of Base 10, so really it’s a Base 10 preference).
I’m an american and I’m generally agreeing with you but our education system is trash mostly because of consistently lowering standards just so everyone passes. Don’t get me started on the funding and peivate/charter schools though.