Wednesday, August 10, 2011

Not Teaching Cursive...

08/10/2011

Are you kidding me?  What the hell is going on in our schools today?  How in world in this age of rapidly advancing technology could the goofballs who run our schools make a decision not to teach our children the fundamentals of cursive writing?  Are they crazy, lazy or just plain stupid?

Children today are being taught to be lazy.  The vast majority of them don’t read books, cannot do simple math calculations in their heads, cannot make change without some machine telling them an amount, certainly can’t do research without a computer, and now some whack-jobs want to eliminate cursive writing from the curriculum.  Please, give me a break?  This is the dumbest thing I have ever heard come out of our so-called caring educators.

If kids do not know cursive, how could they ever read things like our Constitution or Declaration of Independence?  How would they ever read anything that is handwritten?

Thirty years from now I may not be here.  My grandchildren may come across the journal I started in 1992.  At the time I made entries by hand in a notebook.  If the nutcase educators get their way, these kids may not be able to read my journal.  They may not be able to read the innermost thoughts or about my life. 

Do you recall Kevin Costner’s 1997 film “The Postman?” “In 2013, global society collapses and nuclear war has crippled civilization, leaving only pockets of surviving communities.” What if something like this should befall this country for real?  What will happen to our fundamentally undereducated, pampered young people?  They may not survive the ordeal without their TV, Game Boys, video games, laptops and cell phones.  These kids do not think outside the box any longer.  Logic is doomed.  Humanity, as we no it, will be doomed.

A plea to educators: teach the fundamentals first, and then the other bullshit.

And that is all I have to say about that…