Write notes in cursive, and the snowflake millenials will accuse you of writing in secret code! It’s a hoot. I had to actually teach my boys how to write in cursive, on top of writing in print, because the schools had them on a keyboard by the first grade, and barely knew which end of a pencil to put to the paper, let alone figuring out what a pencil sharpener is, or how to use it.
I had to teach my children how to read and write. I also had to teach them to memorize their basic math facts. All this was totally missing from their elementary school. And we lived in a high end area outside of Boston.
I feel sorry for children whose parents are not paying close attention. A lot of parents blame the child at the incompetent teachers’ direction, for failure. I know one family, both parents full time working professionals and wealthy, who figured out when their two children who were in the seventh and eighth grades, they could not read. Talk about flipping out!