Jan. 29 2009

Learning cursive writing is pointless so here's an article on it being slowly eliminated from schools.

Lisa Jones, who teaches third grade at Edgelea Elementary, said she’s noticed that consequence of the de-emphasis, not just by schools but by society: “The most difficult part for me is that now they can’t read it, because they don’t see it anywhere.”

(via hasketsbasket)

  1. ndboy reblogged this from peterwknox and added:
    I’ve been asking about this ever since I started my Masters in Education. It’s about time. Maybe there is hope in the...
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    Oh my goodness I’d forgotten about that part of the SAT!! That was ridiculously stupid and pointless!
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    We were just talking about this tonight in my LSAT class. I remember taking the SAT and dreading the statement you had...
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    The teacher in charge of giving out the test to us accused me of working on sections of the test we already finished...
  5. peterwknox reblogged this from jratlee and added:
    The most time consuming part of my SATs was copying that honor code in cursive.
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