In case you'd somehow missed it, the world renowned Mayo Clinic has gone completely metric for patient safety reasons. If you're thinking about mailing your local clinic, you really should refer to this in your reasoning.
Ohio schools are using computer based training to help children who have fallen behind catch up. The article points out that they're still forcing students to "learn" metric by making them do conversions between US customary units and metric.
As anyone who truly understands metric will know, this is simply the worst possible way to teach metric but we're still wasting our children's time doing it.
To actually think in metric, we need to be able to envision common objects in metric sizes. Onondaga Community College has metric as a core part of it's science curriculum as they realize that science is metric and it's important for our children to truly understand metric instead of confusing conversions.
As the article says
Jim Dilling's success is measured in units most people in the United States are too stubborn to accept.
To be able to compete at any level that might be considered interesting to an up and coming athlete, you have to do so in metric. So, as our athletes make news around the world, we are the ones that are left out of their successes.
Regardless of where you stand on free trade issues, as the letter writer points out, we're still not using metric and it's still hurting our economy.
This particular poster (apart from writing an extremely subjective and emotive article) thinks that track and field can be made more popular here by not using metric. Their reasoning:
We are Americans; we are too stubborn, arrogant and ignorant to learn the metric system.
Makes you proud to be an American doesn't it. For better or worse, if we stop using metric in track and field we'll become completely irrelevant in the rest of the world instead of just a minor sport locally.
Metrologists realize the importance of metric, especially where it involves being able to communicate effectively internationally. If you're interested in climate change, you should be interested in metrication too.
