This:
Article That Illustrates the True Ignorance of Our Society
Makes me write this to Kyle:
Read this article. Dumb parents and even some dumb teachers think that PENMANSHIP shouldn't be taught to their children. Hello?!!?? It's like a BASIC SKILL and allows a person to THINK and ORGANIZE without the use of a COMPUTER. American leaders want to turn us all into robots. And you know what? Parents and teachers are LAZY. Any parent and/or teacher who doesn't want their children to learn how to WRITE BY HAND is exceptionally lazy because THEY are the ones who have to TEACH their child to WRITE BY HAND and THEY DON'T WANT TO. What if their child needs to leave a sticky note on the refrigerator? They won't be able to do it WITHOUT RUNNING TO THE COMPUTER AND TYPING SOMETHING UP. It's the stupidity, the RELIANCE on technology and overall laziness that infuriates me. OUR CHILDREN will without a doubt learn how to HANDWRITE before they learn how to type.
In other, more relaxed news, Melissa brought this to my attention: a six-word memoir.
I think mine might be: "Excuse me, you cut in line" or "Scoff. Mine's only five words" or "Can my words have footnotes, please?"
This is fun.
Friday, December 15, 2006
The Write to Rant
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I've run into some idiotic parents and teachers in my time — as a "handwriting hot-head" myself, fortunately I've also run into parents and school administrators who pay me to go to their schools and teach handwriting to the students and teachers.
Believe me, some of those teachers need it even more than the kids do! This has especially shown up since March 2004 when the Educational Testing Service added a timed handwritten essay to the SAT exam! Now the parents and teachers who thought "handwriting can't ever matter" need to make sure their kids can deal with that!
Actually, I get even more of my income from hospitals that bring me in to give the doctors classes in how to write readably at emergency-room speeds. A lot of those doctors have kids who also want to practice medicine, but who'll first have to get high scores on the SAT exam (now new-and-improved with handwritten essay ... ) — so, often after I do a class at the hospital, the doctors want to know if they can come back later and bring their kids.
Kate Gladstone — the Handwriting Repairwoman —
http://learn.to/handwrite
if you have anything to do with it (and you do!), your future children will know how to spell before they learn perfect penmanship.
Mine would be, "Please step out of my bubble."
Apparently I get really mad at people who don't have any understanding of personal space.
Happy honeymooning!
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