National School Walkout 03/14/2018 thoughts, concerns, news

[R6436]

I have 5 white boards in my office. I dont know how people get stuff done without them, haha.

Edit: back on topic, any updates or is it dying out?

Unfortunately I think the topic is dying out. The media cycle (as far as the walkout) appears to be in the lull until the DC event or until they need a distraction to talk about.

As far as cursive, calculators, chalk/white boards go, I noticed about 12 years ago when my kids were younger that their TEACHERS couldn't even do long division or write in cursive anymore. As I may have stated before technology is nice, but society in general seems too dependent on it without knowing the basics behind the processes the tech is doing for them.

[AKDoug]

I learned cursive in grade school and I had good penmanship. In my high school years I began working for a land surveyor. All notes were done in all caps printing. I made a short career out of land surveying and ever since then I have printed in all caps. I'm every bit as fast at it as I ever was with cursive AND you can read it.

[Arik]

I only print. If I do cursive i get ahead of myself and it just looks like a bunch of "e" strung together

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[Diamondback]

I learned cursive in grade school and I had good penmanship. In my high school years I began working for a land surveyor. All notes were done in all caps printing. I made a short career out of land surveying and ever since then I have printed in all caps. I'm every bit as fast at it as I ever was with cursive AND you can read it.

Kinda like this, except that I have to carefully draw every letter. If I just write normally... well, my relatives have joked that I shoulda gone to Med School on handwriting alone, as supposedly not even NSA could decrypt it. lol