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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Send your kids to Catholic schools. My son had to hand write all of his class notes from ES up until mid HS. They could use laptops after that but some teachers still required them to rewrite the typed notes by hand for homework.

NP. There are lots of things that Catholic schools do well. We would be fine with the religious aspect, although we are Protestant. DS will not consider a Catholic schools - simply because she does not trust any priest being around a child. This is sad, but it is hard to argue. Yes, things are improved from decades ago, but there are still scandals emerging in one place or another. Sigh.

The priests are almost never in the school. Its all lay people.

Ditto. It’s also rare to have nuns in schools. They are all retired or dead.

Anonymous wrote:This is not new information. We've known this for at least a decade.

Yes, but many schools unfortunately are not acting on it.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Send your kids to Catholic schools. My son had to hand write all of his class notes from ES up until mid HS. They could use laptops after that but some teachers still required them to rewrite the typed notes by hand for homework.

NP. There are lots of things that Catholic schools do well. We would be fine with the religious aspect, although we are Protestant. DS will not consider a Catholic schools - simply because she does not trust any priest being around a child. This is sad, but it is hard to argue. Yes, things are improved from decades ago, but there are still scandals emerging in one place or another. Sigh.

The priests are almost never in the school. Its all lay people.

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Anonymous wrote:My child's private high school forbids laptop use in the classroom, unless needed for a disability-related accommodation. The vast majority of students take notes by hand.

What school?
I wish all would do this.

GDS and Sidwell

Anonymous wrote:Send your kids to Catholic schools. My son had to hand write all of his class notes from ES up until mid HS. They could use laptops after that but some teachers still required them to rewrite the typed notes by hand for homework.

NP. There are lots of things that Catholic schools do well. We would be fine with the religious aspect, although we are Protestant. DS will not consider a Catholic schools - simply because she does not trust any priest being around a child. This is sad, but it is hard to argue. Yes, things are improved from decades ago, but there are still scandals emerging in one place or another. Sigh.

My MCPS kid takes handwritten notes.

Anonymous wrote:My child's private high school forbids laptop use in the classroom, unless needed for a disability-related accommodation. The vast majority of students take notes by hand.

What school?
I wish all would do this.

My child's private high school forbids laptop use in the classroom, unless needed for a disability-related accommodation. The vast majority of students take notes by hand.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Send your kids to Catholic schools. My son had to hand write all of his class notes from ES up until mid HS. They could use laptops after that but some teachers still required them to rewrite the typed notes by hand for homework.

Great solution. Except it's not. We don't have an appropriate Catholic school in the area that can keep up with his advanced math and mandarin studies. Any other ideas?

(also we are not Catholic)

Find a Mandarin tutor and/or classes outside of school. Advanced math? Plenty of Catholic schools have it. Or do the same. Online classes/tutors.

PS. Plenty of kids aren’t Catholic in Catholic schools.

This is not new information. We've known this for at least a decade.

Anonymous wrote:Send your kids to Catholic schools. My son had to hand write all of his class notes from ES up until mid HS. They could use laptops after that but some teachers still required them to rewrite the typed notes by hand for homework.

Great solution. Except it's not. We don't have an appropriate Catholic school in the area that can keep up with his advanced math and mandarin studies. Any other ideas?

(also we are not Catholic)

Anonymous wrote:FCPS (at least our FCPS elementary) is trending back towards having kids write things down, take notes on paper, etc., for this reason.

My kids' teachers have professed a preference for having students write on paper. Some have actually done it, but not all. And even those have been 50% of assignments written at most.

FCPS (at least our FCPS elementary) is trending back towards having kids write things down, take notes on paper, etc., for this reason.

Send your kids to Catholic schools. My son had to hand write all of his class notes from ES up until mid HS. They could use laptops after that but some teachers still required them to rewrite the typed notes by hand for homework.

"Handwriting but not typewriting leads to widespread brain connectivity: a high-density EEG study with implications for the classroom"

https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1219945/full

"Our findings suggest that the spatiotemporal pattern from visual and proprioceptive information obtained through the precisely controlled hand movements when using a pen, contribute extensively to the brain’s connectivity patterns that promote learning. We urge that children, from an early age, must be exposed to handwriting activities in school to establish the neuronal connectivity patterns that provide the brain with optimal conditions for learning."

They confuse observation of increased neuron activity with results (ie task performance), but luckily there are dozens of fairly rigorous papers that provide the results side: handwriting is much better for learning.

In any case, this demonstrates how, for equity, the local school administrations need to redouble their efforts to ban pencil and paper from the classroom.