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Your post seemingly supports the structure and rigor of Cristo Rey, and it certainly underscores how low the bar is set in MD with 2.0---which no longer teaches handwriting or grammar and produces students who can't write basic sentences. [/quote]

I, personally, do not judge the quality of a school based on how much time they have students practicing their cursive.[/quote]

You may not find value in cursive, but ask any OT what s/he thinks about cursive instruction.  My son is in third grade.  He had fine motor issues, and while he loves school, he hated writing . . . until I paid out-of-pocket to have him learn cursive.  He is a new child, and it took two months max to instruct him in cursive.

Watch high school students struggle through note-taking.  It's painful.

The more slowly they write, they more slowly they process the knowledge.

If that's OK, with you, then you shouldn't be commenting on any educational matters.  But I suppose ignorance is bliss.[/quote]

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