07-01-2018, 10:02 AM
(07-01-2018, 09:21 AM)Canard Wrote: My drivers licence has my height and mass in metric.
The only reason we are “hewing” today is because we weren’t intolerant enough back after conversion and the evil units weren’t completely banished.
It makes me sick when I see my friend’s little kids saying feet and inches for stuff, and they’re being taught it in school because the teachers didn’t happen to adopt the change. A whole new generation is being brought up wrong.
Aren't teachers in Ontario mandated to teach both metric and imperial? Since Canada uses both systems, and has no plans to go exclusively metric, this seems appropriate to me. I know my nephews and nieces, who went to school when only metric was being taught, are pretty clued out wrt imperial measures.