Re: Re: Kids don't like school?
  By: Gamgee to August Abolins on Wed Aug 11 2021 09:50 pm

 > 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, b
 > 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.
 > 

I didn't learn how to read and write in school. The school plans were damn slow
so my parents just
taught me themselves.

During Spain's Fascist days they offered some "home education" in school, I
think. They taught
girls how to sew and patch clothes and such. In my father's school they taught
boys how to be a
good Spaniard by marching like a proper soldier and hailing the flag :-)

The Party's training camps sounded actually great. They ran like Boy Scout's,
except they were
militarized and kids were given a big badass machete. The officer of each unit
was given an actual
gun with ammo. I still have my grandpa's regulatory machete from his camp,
actually.

It is when you listen to those stories of old when you realize what sort of
thing has been lost. I
used to hear tales about buys who were released in some forest and instructed to
reach some far
away location. "By the end of the week, the other boys in the squad were like
your fuckign
brothers!"

I am happy we no longer have to be careful about the wrong person listening to
us when we mooked
the Leader's moustache, but I cannot stop realizing we have gone soft.

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