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Yikes! Honor roll teens "can't read/write cursive"..huh?
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<blockquote data-quote="donna723" data-source="post: 616295" data-attributes="member: 1883"><p>I don't remember learning to write in cursive as being all that time consuming. Seems like we learned in second or third grade. </p><p></p><p>I think it's a darned shame! Just one more thing to go by the wayside, a "victim" of the electronic age. The things that will go next (if they haven't already) will be learning to use correct grammar, punctuation and spelling. Without these skills, people sound like ignorant fools! But why bother learning it if you can push a button and some electronic dooie will do it for you. Or do people just not care any more? When I was still working, I would see reports turned in by people who were my kids' age or even younger. They were done on a computer but no spell check, etc. And in at least half of them, the spelling and grammar was so bad you were left guessing at what they meant. And a lot of them used no punctuation whatsoever, which really garbled it up! Even when my kids were in school, teachers counted off for misspellings and grammatical errors but I've heard they don't do that any more? And I won't even get in to how we actually were expected to learn how to do math WITHOUT a calculator!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="donna723, post: 616295, member: 1883"] I don't remember learning to write in cursive as being all that time consuming. Seems like we learned in second or third grade. I think it's a darned shame! Just one more thing to go by the wayside, a "victim" of the electronic age. The things that will go next (if they haven't already) will be learning to use correct grammar, punctuation and spelling. Without these skills, people sound like ignorant fools! But why bother learning it if you can push a button and some electronic dooie will do it for you. Or do people just not care any more? When I was still working, I would see reports turned in by people who were my kids' age or even younger. They were done on a computer but no spell check, etc. And in at least half of them, the spelling and grammar was so bad you were left guessing at what they meant. And a lot of them used no punctuation whatsoever, which really garbled it up! Even when my kids were in school, teachers counted off for misspellings and grammatical errors but I've heard they don't do that any more? And I won't even get in to how we actually were expected to learn how to do math WITHOUT a calculator! [/QUOTE]
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