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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Our school, Discovery has very little homework. 20 mins reading a day and one math worksheet for the week that takes my kid 5 minutes (5th grade).

No formal cursive (we missed that due to COVID) but trying to catch them up by offering it during "encore/specials". [/quote]

Curious - why do they need to learn cursive? As an adult, the only time I ever need it is to sign my name and honestly, my signature looks nothing like any recognizable letters anyway.[/quote]

There’s research out there of the benefits of putting pen to paper and cursive allows you to write faster and generally is just a different way to take in information. There’s lots of advanced classes and other stuff taught in schools that basically no one will ever need to use in every day life. Is that the standard for whether something should be taught? I don’t think so. Exercising your mind and learning new stuff is good. Also my elementary kid found a hunch of letters my father wrote me from overseas all in cursive and couldn’t read them. That’s when I started trying to teach it at home. A lot of our historical records (including family history) is in cursive and it’s a good skill to have.  [/quote]

Yes, all of this.

Plus it's a better use of time than more iPad time. We've swung the STEM pendulum too far. [/quote]

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