[Sacajaweau]

You teach children to read and write by making them read and write. I remember writing a paragraph USING THE PALMER METHOD every day in second grade. It meant using a scratchy pen dipped into an inkwell at the upper right corner of my desk.

If you were left handed you were so scre***.

We read short stories aloud every day. It was practice, practice, practice.

Only one of my 45, 47 & 49 year old children can read script with ease.

Throw the damn computers away in the lower grades.

[USFRIENDINVICTORIA]

I'm left handed. Writing with a nib pen was a real challenge. My teacher was a bit old fashioned — she thought ballpoint pens might be a passing fad. We had to learn to write with real ink, just in case.

[pepsionice]

If I ran a school system....I’d have a iron-clad rule...no computers in the school until after the 8th grade. I would not want any homework done on a computer throughout the entire twelve years.

[mongo141]

‘You teach children to read and write by making them read and write. I remember writing a paragraph USING THE PALMER METHOD every day in second grade. It meant using a scratchy pen dipped into an inkwell at the upper right corner of my desk.

If you were left handed you were so scre***.

We read short stories aloud every day. It was practice, practice, practice.

Only one of my 45, 47 & 49 year old children can read script with ease.

Throw the damn computers away in the lower grades.’

Absolutely Correct!

[Traveler59]

I remember writing a paragraph USING THE PALMER METHOD every day in second grade.

Still used it when I was in second grade in the early 60's

It meant using a scratchy pen dipped into an inkwell at the upper right corner of my desk.

Ok, now you're showing your age... ;)