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Yikes! Honor roll teens "can't read/write cursive"..huh?
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<blockquote data-quote="InsaneCdn" data-source="post: 616294" data-attributes="member: 11791"><p>Schools, at least here, spend very little time actually <u>teaching</u> anything. The current trend is to "allow" the students to explore and learn for themselves. Cursive writing cannot be learned that way. Many things cannot be learned that way. And then they spend more than 75% of school time on activities that have very limited educational value. Here, they spend more time looking at video than reading, and more time on "social justice" than on history, English and math combined. Do kids need to know how to both print and write? in my opinion... it will ALWAYS be a critical life skill. We will not always have technology to depend on.</p><p> </p><p>And no, not everything the teachers teach is dictated by the school board or ministry of education. As in... they have to "cover" the subject materials, but HOW they do that is up to the teacher, so if the teacher is an "explorer" type and not a "teacher" type, things like cursive writing simply do not get learned.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="InsaneCdn, post: 616294, member: 11791"] Schools, at least here, spend very little time actually [U]teaching[/U][I] [/I]anything. The current trend is to "allow" the students to explore and learn for themselves. Cursive writing cannot be learned that way. Many things cannot be learned that way. And then they spend more than 75% of school time on activities that have very limited educational value. Here, they spend more time looking at video than reading, and more time on "social justice" than on history, English and math combined. Do kids need to know how to both print and write? in my opinion... it will ALWAYS be a critical life skill. We will not always have technology to depend on. And no, not everything the teachers teach is dictated by the school board or ministry of education. As in... they have to "cover" the subject materials, but HOW they do that is up to the teacher, so if the teacher is an "explorer" type and not a "teacher" type, things like cursive writing simply do not get learned. [/QUOTE]
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