On Wednesday, July 11, 2018 at 10:49:30 AM UTC-5, Gary wrote:
>
> I'm actually stunned that people here claim they don't teach kids
> cursive now. Is that true? I find it hard to believe but I can
> check with my daughter about this. I have 2 grandchildren in
> elementary school.
>
I was getting my drivers license renewed two years ago and there was a
woman sitting there with her about 20 year old grandson. They were
talking and something was said about cursive writing and he said he had
a hard reading anyone's cursive writing as it was not taught in school.
He was only taught how to print.
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> I've also heard that they teach limited math now too since
> everyone has calculators of some sort so no need to learn the
> basics?
>
My two youngest nephews are being home schooled and are home schooled
all year long. Their cousins have been with them while they are out of
public school and one is having a bit of math problems. One was taught
when she needed to count something it should written out such as to add
12 + 5 it should written as 1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1. Then she
was to count all those ones to come up with her answer.

No wonder American kids are becoming so stupid. Sister-in-law is
correcting that **** poor teaching method as she's teaching her sons
math she's working on that cousin's math skills as well.