I be watchin' you, sucka!
Posted on 03/05/2015 4:48:26 PM PST by Olog-hai
As schools adopt new education standards and rely more on computers in the classroom, a group of New Hampshire senators want to make sure the basics of learning cursive and multiplication tables don’t get left behind.
“You definitely need to teach typing and keyboarding and all of that, but kids do need to be able to sign their names, they do need to be able to read the Founding Fathers documents,” said Republican Sen. Nancy Stiles, the main sponsor of a bill that would require public schools to keep teaching both. “(Cursive) is an art and a skill that shouldn’t be lost.”
The push to keep cursive in the classroom has become a nationwide movement as schools adopt the Common Core education standards, which omit mention of the handwriting style. The K-12 standards, adopted by most states, have drawn widespread criticism. Among other objections, opponents say, the standards complicate math education and take away local and state control over school instruction. …
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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.
Kids who came out with answers like that would get their ears pulled at the school I attended as a kid.
Yes!
Oh how funny. I forgot about her. I feel sorry for her inability to understand the Cursive language. Perhaps naming the bill after her will bring her splice. After all it is the right thing to do. lol.
I be watchin' you, sucka!
Really cool. I went to the site to see what it was all about. That really is an awesome site. Technology is a great thing, but human kindness is even better. Nascarnation - you earned a hearty “Great Job” from me.
This is amazing! Thank you!
They were completely floored when I told them about corporal punishment practices that were in place when I was a kid. They thought that we were getting swatted every day and didn’t understand how little the paddle was actually used. It was the threat of the swats that kept us in line. No such threat exists now, and as a consequence the kids that come into my classes now are considerably behind where I was at the same age level because teachers have to spend such a huge percentage of teaching time dealing with discipline issues.
Couple this with the fact that in Texas, new student learning expectations were put on 5th graders this year that weren’t previously taught until kids were in the 7th grade, and the kids are getting even farther behind.
I’m enjoyed by some, tolerated by others, and hated by a few, LOL.
Time was that if you got in trouble at school, you also got in trouble at home for causing trouble at school. Nowadays, school officalsnare not allowed to touch a student, otherwise be charged with assault themselves. And these kids know it so they push boundaries which kids would never have dared to do decades ago. That is part of the reason we have so many discipline problems in schools today.
“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.
Teachers union to protest in 3...2...1...
I had to do that st the movie theater the other day. I told the guy 4 times to trust me. He finally gave up and gave me what I said.
So did I. About 15 years ago I applied for a job in a bookstore and one of the first questions the owner asks me if I can make change with out the cash register telling me?
I say sure and then he hands me a 5 question math test. It was just as easy in the 3rd grade. I thought to myself then what kind of morons come in here to apply for jobs.
I learned multiplication tables because I was homeschooled, but we didn’t bother with cursive. Now I’m learning it along with my almost 6 year old daughter. I’m not the biggest fan - typing is so much faster and neater - but it’s good for her hand-eye coordination.
Still, not really a fan of legislatures writing bills saying what must be taught. That sort of thing has a big slippery slope potential.
If we don't teach cursive, how are future generations going to read our original national documents like the Constitution?
I’m in my late 20s. I think the school district got sucked into the hype of pcs and the internet boom. I wonder if they reverted back to cursive.
The Catholic Schools still taught it, I knew a guy in High School who went to a Catholic elementary school. He had the best handwriting out of anyone I knew.
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