[laweeks]

Well, let's see . . . they could go back to basics: English: parts of speech, diagramming sentences, spelling lists; Math: all the math tables; History: undistorted history of this great country; Penmanship: cursive

Or would that be too tough for these ignoramus teachers?

[grobdriver]

Penmanship: cursive

Wife unit (Nurse) and I were discussing this last night.
Why teach cursive writing when everything we use these days has a keyboard?
Just teach typing skills?

Apparently she read (professional journal) where a study found that learning cursive writing develops a part of fine motor skills that nothing else does.

[stanne]

Worked for us.

[Paine in the Neck]

Or would that be too tough for these ignoramus teachers?

Apparently, it would. They were quoted on the radio this AM in Austin as bleating "How are we supposed to get lesson plans?" It seems to me that this is an admission that they are incompetent, not that I'm surprised given the results of their labors, lo, these many years.