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chasfm11 wrote:For me, a good district is one who teaches that kids. A bad district is one who teaches the tests. I understand the difficulty of trying to get the students to learn the material in a way that will allow them to pass the tests. But teaching the tests renders the entire educational process irrelevant.

VoiceofReason wrote:

But to be interrupted in the middle with a blatant, unrequested intervention was not useful.

Try “Oh, were we talking while you interrupted?”

I don’t know much about “common core” but I can’t believe Cursive writing is not required.

"Cursive and keyboarding"

"The standards do not mandate the teaching of cursive handwriting, although states are free either to add a cursive requirement or to permit individual school districts to require it. The standards include instruction in keyboarding."

Common Core is the Federal government's attempt to channel propaganda into the schools by offering financial incentives to use the "standard" approach. Of course, like everything else that comes out of the Federal government today in the way of policy, it is heavily Liberally slanted. I'm a strong believer in local control of the schools so I would object to Common Core even if it completely followed a Conservative way of thinking. It isn't even close to that.

As one who has always had terrible handwriting, I'm not at all passionate about cursive. I had to take a business typing class while I was in high school. I hated it and the teacher who nearly beat me senseless over it. Now, there is not a week goes by now that I don't silently thank her for being as hard on me to learn typing as she was. Keyboarding skills in today's world are very important and I'm very thankful to have them. I cannot remember the last time that I used cursive except to sign my name.

As far as cutting the teacher off abruptly, I was worried that I would create the wrong impression with the school board member. I want her to think of me as being tolerant but having some strong opinions. I didn't discover what the teacher's agenda was until she took over the conversation and conducted her own private filibuster. By then, it was too late. I've not had many Liberals who were wiling to trade thoughts with someone else. They would much rather not allow anyone else to speak. This teacher was a master at that.

VoiceofReason wrote: You did the right thing and probably handled it better than I would have. I am old and cranky and don’t have much patients with people like that anymore.

Cedar Park Dad wrote:

VMI77 wrote:

mamabearCali wrote:I am 33 and I can read and write cursive very well. We were teaching cursive 6 years ago when I left teaching to be a mom and a teacher of my kids. My kids will learn cursive as it is a good skill to have. Cursive is not yet Latin, and even Latin has its uses.

So, we'll have a future generation where only homeschoolers can read cursive. We're also going to have a generation with a million or so young people who haven't been indoctrinated by the State. That may be the difference between liberty and slavery.

I am not sure of the relationship between cursive, State indoctrination, and slavery. Indeed, forcing persons to learn cursive when there is no use for it fits more into the "indoctrination" category then anything else.

Frankly if I want to get my point across I don't use cursive, unless that point is to see if people think I am having a seizure due to horrific handwriting.