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[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 the poster was referring to handwriting as 'shorthand' -- not the stenography-type shorthand...

Ok? Clearer now? [/quote]

My kid does NOT know how to take notes on paper.

I hate it.

Furthermore, I totally agree with all the studies that show physically writing or reading something on paper drills it into the brain and memory better. Better than blitz reading it on the screen, better than [b]"composing " an essay on a computer that really is 6 iterations of slop and editing (ie. no planning, no outline, no thesis, no topic sentences + transitions that make sense.  Just slop it down, refine, slop it down, refine, slop some more down, out of time turn it in, no feedback anyhow). [/b] Such sad writing skills nowadays at school. [/quote]

This is so true! and sad. K-12 writing nowadays is hen-pecking at a keyboard for K-3.  Then revising your hen-pecking for grades 4-6.  Then some essays where you have minimal frameworks ever taught for 7-9, and then AP computer essay practice 9-12.

When does the thinking come in?[/quote]

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