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Originally Posted by TheSquealer
(Post 19758323)
The problem with this is not that they stopped doing it... the problem is that the fact that they stopped doing it and they weren't smart enough to say what they would replace it with. Instead they let it become a negative PR scandal instead of saying "instead of cursive, we are going to emphasize [more important life skill here]"
Humans do not respond well to "taking away" and "loss". It's a basic primal, feast or famine type instinctive reaction ingrained in our DNA.
That said, i think they should keep teaching the same things as always. Learning and education is not about what you can apply in life.. if that was the case, they'd be teaching, "bagging groceries" and "shovel handling 101" all through high school. There should be standards and the standards should be high. Not continually lowered.
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They likely could have handled it better. Many schools around the country no longer teach cursive, but this is the one, for whatever reason, that we hear about.
Personally, I would rather they teach kids how to play music that write cursive. It still teaches motor skills, hand eye coordination, problem solving etc and it is show that music stimulates the brain. From grade 4-6 twice per week we had music class. I learned to play the recorder (which annoyed the hell out of my mom) and learned a few other basic notes on a few basic instruments and we were able to write our own compositions.
Like you say, people often don't respond well when things are "taken away." Many people say they want change, but really they don't want change. Many people have the attitude of "It was good enough for me" so it must be okay. When things change some people get scared and immediately assume it is for the worst. |
