Community Chat

[Blahblahvampemer]

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@hopi wrote:

Your Tax dollars are given to big business to open Charter schools - these schools do not have meet certain curriculum standards or  the rigors of testing that regular school face.

Big business is about crushing everyone and if they are helping someone it is for profit only.  

So if in 20 years keyboards and computers are outdated like suggested in another post - the younger generation will have no employable  skill and won't be able to communicate.

Self learning is the lazy teacher way of saying go sit  and entertain yourself.

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Charter schools seem to be getting results, and the "rigors" of a regular school are mostly a joke.  I saw the curriculum for an eighth-grade class from 70 years ago, and I doubt the average grad student could keep up.  All of the teachers in my family, as well as our friends, look at today's system as a big con.  If only the corps were teaching!

[tedEbear]

  Well, I was interested in the newspaper in kindergarten.  Look at the pictures and looked at the comics.  No one in my family ever read anything that I saw, not until later in my elementary days.

   I read everything that I found to read after learning how.

    In senior high, I took the 20 week class in typing and my final test score was   29wpm, with 1 mistake.  I still have a hard time typing, it is such a chore when I post something.  Cannot do a  calculator, without looking at every number I punch in.  I don'y make loops in cursive, but, I have always used cursive. I have very messy printing skills

  I spent 6 months doing a needlepoint Unicorn.  It was pure torture!!!!!!--------tedEbear

   When the topics of grammar and spelling come up, I loose my own ability to do either one.

[Blahblahvampemer]

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@Maudelynn wrote:

Like everything else, there are limited resources and limited amount of time to educate.  Why should we teach subjects that have no application in real life?  No one hand-writes any more.  Everything is done via computer.  We don't teach Latin any longer because no one uses it. We don't teach needlework, because it is no longer necessary for women to know how to do it.  Of course, if you want to learn any of these obsolete skills, you're free to get instruction on your own.

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So we're eliminating history, cursive, most math, civics, finances and more...and yet we're producing kids that know less than ever before.  What my parents had to learn in high school--in the days of the slide rule no less--made them ready to take on a job and college classes.  Today many need up to a year of remedial classes.  

Just what are they teaching them with all that time they have left?

[SusieQ_2]

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@Mellie32 wrote:

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@bonnielu wrote:

Learning cursive or not.... when I sign a document it asks for me to print my name on one line and then use my SIGNATURE on the other.  Could it be that they are expecting a cursive signature. I think so.

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The signature line is for you to sign however you always sign your name.  No, that doesn't mean everyone has to write in cursive.  The print line is simply there in case the person entering the information in the computer can't read your signature.

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When you think about it, the letters in printing aren't all that different than those of cursive. When I read someone saying they've encountered someone who can't read their cursive my first thought is that maybe their writing is simply not as legible as they think it is.

Can you imagine a teacher, or professor, today accepting a handwritten essay or term paper? 

[Mellie32]

Handwriting your resume?  Letter of recommendation?  Nope --- totally unprofessional.

[Maudelynn]

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@Blahblahvampemer wrote:

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@Maudelynn wrote:

Like everything else, there are limited resources and limited amount of time to educate.  Why should we teach subjects that have no application in real life?  No one hand-writes any more.  Everything is done via computer.  We don't teach Latin any longer because no one uses it. We don't teach needlework, because it is no longer necessary for women to know how to do it.  Of course, if you want to learn any of these obsolete skills, you're free to get instruction on your own.

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So we're eliminating history, cursive, most math, civics, finances and more...and yet we're producing kids that know less than ever before.  What my parents had to learn in high school--in the days of the slide rule no less--made them ready to take on a job and college classes.  Today many need up to a year of remedial classes.  

Just what are they teaching them with all that time they have left?

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I don't know where you live, but where I live all of what you mentioned is still taught. As for producing kids who know less than ever before, is that a fact?  Or just your perception?

[GingerPeach]

There are plenty of reasons cursive is still important.  It has more to do with individual human strengths than it does with turning in papers in cursive, or reading the Constitution, or even creating a signature.

Search "why do we need cursive" and lots of interesting info pops up.

[chi5925]

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@Still Raining wrote:

I never learned cursive and did just fine.  Not a useful skill.

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WHAT?????  Please say you're joking....

[SaRina]

I love cursive writing, but recognize that it is non-essential today for communication.  It only carries "sentimental" value for some.

It is necessary for society to move forward.  Future generations will be abandoning today's technology and acquiring a whole new set of communication skills.....who knows?  Perhaps telepathic.