Hello Gamgee!

** On Wednesday 11.08.21 - 21:50, you wrote:

 AA>> [...] Cursive writing is often the basis of even
 AA>> producing one's signature later in life.

 G> Agreed.  I'm old enough to have learned cursive writing in
 G> school.  I will have to say that I have *VERY* rarely ever
 G> wanted/needed to use it, though.

When I first dicovered cursive writing.. I was like "WoW!.. and  
I don't have to take my pen off the paper for each letter  
anymore!"   For me, I realized that it was a faster way to  
write anything, so I used it most of the time.

Sometime after university, I reverted back to printing, and all
in caps.


 G> [...] I'm kinda on the fence on whether it's worth taking
 G> all that time to teach a kid how to do it.

Would you be averse to demonstrate that cursive can have  
application in improving speed of writing?


 G> [...] Seems like kids today don't know much about how to
 G> actually operate in the real world.

They probably don't see the need while they are living at home  
and when everything is done for them?

Many of the curriculum books are popular since the covid thing  
forced people to teach or study at home.  I recently brought in  
a Gr 8 Math curriculm for a customer. Looking through that a  
lot of the stuff about cartesian coordiates, fractions,  
calculating volumes etc.. all looked quite familiar. Except for  
calculating volumes, not much of that other stuff seemed to  
have any application later in my life.   But I personally  
enjoyed the math challenges.
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  ../|ug

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