Thanks teachers’ unions! Here’s the end result of decades of soul-crippling feel-goodery masquerading as education illustrated in a phone call to a Verizon customer service line where the reps can’t understand the difference between .002 and 2/10, nor how those two numbers would be different if calculating dollars or cents. Via Failblog:

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h/t Moonbattery