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Old 08-14-2013, 07:45 AM  
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Originally Posted by woj View Post
decision has been made to cut out teaching of obsolete skills and it turns into some conspiracy, someone to blame, someone to bitch at? isn't it pretty damn obvious that if they cut out cursive writing, they will teach more of other skills like math or reading or whatever? Is that really such a bad idea?
That isn't how it works & I would contend that penmanship isn't an obsolete skill .. as evidenced by the fact that the very school who cut it is asking for it.

Worse .. they are not teaching more of the other skills. What they do is teach down to the lowest denominator. The truth is that now:

Regular Classes = Borderline special education

AP Classes = The former regular classes.
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