Cursive

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83. They could also do

the same as my own teachers did... when I was a kid back in the 50s and 60s and the classes were quite large due to the Baby Boom...

The teacher would take a small group over to the other side of the room to maybe do remedial reading, leaving the rest of us to do other types of classroom work.

I don't know how big classes are these days, but even if they're as large as they were when I was in school, I don't see why that couldn't work.

Or maybe classroom helpers. Parent volunteers.


Also, talk about some things that should never have been taught and turned out to be pointless in terms of usefulness...a few times a month, or maybe even once a week, we would push our desks back against the walls and learn...

Square dance!!!

yay!


Then there was movie day, which I always suspected was just an excuse for the teacher to get some downtime, unless the movie projector messed up.


I dunno...For those in favor of doing away with cursive writing just because it's become/becoming more and more irrelevant in our daily lives (texting and keyboarding, etc), I would ask, well then what about basic math skills? Who needs to know how to add, subtract, etc. when we have affordable calculators now to do it all for us?