-=> August Abolins wrote to Gamgee <=-

 MP>> Well, move them to Oregon, where they are going to help
 MP>> all the kids of all the colors of the rainbow graduate
 MP>> while being even less prepared to advance forward or face
 MP>> the real world.  Your kids will love it there.

 G> The "leadership" out that way are all idiots.  Stupid idiots.

 AA> It's about getting votes.  Arelor summarized it nicely.

Yes, he did.

 AA> But something akin to this started happening in grade schools
 AA> here when they discontinued teaching of cursive writing.
 AA> (That's cursive as in writing "style of penmanship in which
 AA> some characters are written joined together in a flowing
 AA> manner" - not the art of swear words!)  hahah!

 AA> When I heard that, I thought, WTF.  Cursive writing is often
 AA> the basis of even producing one's signature later in life.

Agreed.  I'm old enough to have learned cursive writing in school.  I 
will have to say that I have *VERY* rarely ever wanted/needed to use it, 
though.  Other than signatures of course.  I'm kinda on the fence on 
whether it's worth taking all that time to teach a kid how to do it.  
Would that class time be better spent on teaching them how to balance a 
checkbook/debit account, do basic income tax preparation, basic cooking 
skills, etc etc...?  I never took it as a kid, but I remember some kind 
of elective course called "home economics" being offered.  Seems like 
kids today don't know much about how to actually operate in the real 
world.



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