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Yikes! Honor roll teens "can't read/write cursive"..huh?
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<blockquote data-quote="muttmeister" data-source="post: 616282" data-attributes="member: 135"><p>There are only so many hours in the school day and they don't have time to teach everything. Schools are products of the societies that they serve and they have to teach what the society thinks the kids will need. As somebody else said, those decisions are not made by the teachers; they're made by committees, administrators, school boards, and textbook writers. If you ever took a history of education course, you know that schools in this country were basically set up, first to teach kids to read the bible but, later, to provide kids with job skills. Cursive writing is no longer a job skill. Most schools have decided that teaching cursive is no longer time or cost effective. I think maybe I agree with them. Changes have happened constantly in our school system but if you are in the generation where the change is being made, it I sometimes difficult to see the bigger picture. I'm sure there were people who were upset when schools stopped emphasizing Latin and ancient Greek but it all turned out OK. If they swap cursive writing for keyboarding, I'm sure it will be to the kids' advantage.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="muttmeister, post: 616282, member: 135"] There are only so many hours in the school day and they don't have time to teach everything. Schools are products of the societies that they serve and they have to teach what the society thinks the kids will need. As somebody else said, those decisions are not made by the teachers; they're made by committees, administrators, school boards, and textbook writers. If you ever took a history of education course, you know that schools in this country were basically set up, first to teach kids to read the bible but, later, to provide kids with job skills. Cursive writing is no longer a job skill. Most schools have decided that teaching cursive is no longer time or cost effective. I think maybe I agree with them. Changes have happened constantly in our school system but if you are in the generation where the change is being made, it I sometimes difficult to see the bigger picture. I'm sure there were people who were upset when schools stopped emphasizing Latin and ancient Greek but it all turned out OK. If they swap cursive writing for keyboarding, I'm sure it will be to the kids' advantage. [/QUOTE]
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