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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Hilarious to see these parents justifying elimination of teaching a useful skill.  The public school vs private school kids will be obvious in one more way...who can properly handwrite a thank you note.  Love it.[/quote]

Or who can take shorthand notes when laptops not allowed at meeting or lecture, etc. [/quote]

Yes, academics in the US started going downhill when schools stopped requiring everyone to take shorthand.

Wait, what?[/quote]

By context, it's clear that [b]the poster was referring to handwriting as 'shorthand'[/b] -- not the stenography-type shorthand...

Ok? Clearer now? [/quote]

Who does that? Is that common? I don't think I've ever seen anybody do that before.[/quote]

You must be one of those people who like to nitpick and argue around the central issue in order to what? Look cool? Look smart? Right now you look foolish and annoying.

Big picture is there is not handwriting or cursive or note-taking in school by hand. We all agree.

Moving on, yes, lots of people take notes by hand in all sorts of jobs in the field and in the office.

I was recently appalled with I noticed my 4th grade has basic English STROKE ORDER messed up so can't write at a decent speed whatsoever. No one over the course of MCPS K-4 noticed nor correctly how she writes Os and 0s counter-clockewise. Or makes certain printed letters right side to left side, yet we right in English from left to right, top to down thus any handwriting my daughter does is back and forth and back and forth.

We have a handwriting tutor starting this weekend. 
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I thought she meant shorthand too, as I've never heard the terms used to refer to cursive.  I don't think seeking clarification of an unfamiliar term to be foolish or annoying.[/quote]

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