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To: Vince Ferrer
Cursive = White Ebonics

And calligraphy is like NSA grade encryption?

49 posted on 11/23/2013 9:56:45 AM PST by IllumiNaughtyByNature ($1.84 - The price of a gallon of gas on Jan. 20th, 2009.)
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To: IllumiNaughtyByNature

I recently brought home boxes of keepsakes and pictures after we sold my 100 year old mother’s house. (She’s in assisted living now.) Amongst a collection of my old school materials I found 2 autograph books collected from my classmates when I was 12 and 13. Although I always struggled sith my handwriting, partly becuase my mind travels faster than my hand and partly because I was just unco-ordinated, my classmates wrote beautifully. Some of them wrote as nice as any teacher. Even a couple of the boys, whom I suspect might be classified as special ed in today’s classroom, wrote better than any of my grandchildren.

I want to know why they suddenly decided to stop teaching cursive? How can these kids take notes? Don’t tell me that they are texting their notes. That seems to me to be highly impractical.


55 posted on 11/23/2013 10:02:40 AM PST by afraidfortherepublic
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