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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Did the article leave a bad taste in anyone else’s mouth? She’s suing now in college, when she could have said something sometime over the past decade? I understand the language barrier, but she says she could still barely hold a pencil in 11th grade? This sounds exaggerated and designed to cause an uproar for her financial benefit, fame, sympathy support, etc. [/quote]
No. Absolutely not. She was a *child* until 5 minutes ago. She is a feminist latina icon as far as I'm concerned, and I am not the type of person to hang my hat on that.

I have story for you. My kid's suzuki music teacher told me her kid, now in college, is now writing hand written exams because the college could not come up with a better way to stop kids from cheating. She said some kids were struggling to physically write essays. Now here's the frosting, her daughter was homeschooled/private high school and learned cursive. Her professor could not read her cursive! [/quote]

That’s appalling. What did they do about it?[/quote]
Somebody else read the essay to the prof

I assume it is a young prof. I am not that surprised s/he cant read cursive. People aren't taught to write it. Why would you be able to read it?

People originally learned cursive first, then the academic geniuses thought print is easier, print was taught first, cursive second. Then everybody's handwriting went to ----. Print is not easier. Try to reverse a cursive b or d. Then the next generation of academic geniuses told us typing is the new thing, cursive is archaic. Then the touch screens came and now kids can't hold pencils properly. I have heard kindergarten teachers say they have kids holding crayons with the "caveman" hold. K teachers today are starting with kids who can do literally nothing. They are starting K behind! [/quote]

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