second hand goods ordinance is getting me down

**harsas** · 06-01-2015, 09:15 PM

Originally Posted by BRASSCATCHER

Look up the Common Core Curiculum. You will notice that cursive writting is not taught any longer in elementary school. Why? My thought is that we are becoming so dependant on debit and credit cards and pin numbers that society will no longer need to know how to sign their own names.

Who came up with the curriculum you ask??? Well Bill Gates is one name along with others who have no backrounds in education but who do have backrounds in technology and banking. If you dont believe me do a little digging. Funding for school districts who don't use the common core are being cut.

I am not a fan of common core, but it has noting to do with writing cursive. The problem, as I see it, with common core is that we have stopped teaching our kids how to think for themselves. All we do is teach them to memorize facts and run numbers. Important things, no doubt, but without being able to think critically it is all pointless. We are creating a bunch of small robots (sheeple, as the aged one would say) that walk and talk all in the correct order, at the correct time. More control of the masses, if you ask me. Education should be open and free to be creative and thereby create creative people that can actually create things (say that three times fast).

Cursive is a whole different matter. I am not quite as old as the aged one, but I am not very far behind, so like many of us, I grew up with "cursive only please". Even still, I have not actually written in cursive in at least 30 years. It is a lost art. Perhaps this alone is a reason to teach it but with shrinking resources. I think it has been eliminated because people are not doing it. Sure there are folks that still write in cursive, but the numbers are diminishing. Between computers and phones, writing by hand in general is becoming less frequent and when we do write by hand, it is usually to fill out a form which requires printing. Heck, I can print much faster than I can write and it is almost as readable...

**BRASSCATCHER** · 06-02-2015, 03:25 AM

We still have to use cursive to sign our names. That is one thing that makes us unique. That is what is being lost. All points you made above I agree with. As you stated the common core is turning kids into robots and forcing them to do things a certain way and not letting them think outside the box. When it gets to that point where you get a population to accept only what has been taught as right then you are treading in dangerous territory. I believe the term for it is communism!!!!

I have always believed that our "President" was a manchurian candidate from the beginning. If we are not careful his "handler" Hillary is waiting in the wings to continue his policies.