Good for New Hampshire.
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I agree. I didn’t learn my multiplication tables until I got involved with home schooling and found out that I was learning every bit as much as our kids were learning!
Six years ago I had a hard time making change. Now I can do plenty of calculations in my head that most people my age need a calculator to perform.
Cursive is a dying form. I have to admit I can hardly read it.
But as a Gen Yer, word processing and computer science replaced it in school. It’s a shame because I can’t read what my grandparents wrote in letters.
I teach 5th grade math and science. On the first day of school this year, I had exactly two kids out of a total of 46 that knew their multiplication tables by heart. I have about a handful that can read and write in cursive. When I write something in cursive the kids ask me to write it in “English.”
We learned both in 3rd grade.
We don’t know enough about various abilities and brain development to eliminate things from a curriculum that worked for a long time to graduate literate people.
Yes!
“That’s real retarded, sir. “
I always like the “deer in the headlights look” on clerks faces when the register fails to tell them the amount of change to give. You could tell them any amount and they would give you what you said if you said it firmly and confidently.
RACISTS!!!!!! LEFTIST RACISTS!!!!!!!!!
(Really this is a good thing as we all know!)
In a day and age where proper speaking and grammer, and mathematics are considered racist, this is refreshing.
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