Reason #2,103 to mock America's education system

[Neil]

We were told that we *must* use cursive, for strategic reasons.  Timing is one of the biggest challenges during exams.  Those who can write faster have an advantage over those who don't.  If you can write out the answers for 90 questions, you'll have a better chance than the guy who writes block letters and can only do 80 questions.  Therefore, we must practise our cursive whenever possible.

Our education systems are very different though.  Ours are designed to produce leaders and thinkers.  Yours is designed to produce automatons to do what we tell you to do.

[Monoriu]

The aim of the Chinese/HK system is selection.  There are various chokepoints along the way from grade 1 to university.  Only a set number/percentage can pass each chokepoint.  You don't pass by meeting certain standards.  You pass by being better than your mates.  Those who fail are disgarded. 

[jimmy olsen]

The aim of the Chinese/HK system is selection.  There are various chokepoints along the way from grade 1 to university.  Only a set number/percentage can pass each chokepoint.  You don't pass by meeting certain standards.  You pass by being better than your mates.  Those who fail are disgarded.

That's pointless. The goal should be for as many students as possible to do well.

[Camerus]

As a teacher, I'm proud to say I don't teach to the tards.

[DontSayBanana]

Actually, Mono, block letterforms are only slower when writing both upper- and lowercase.  In Law Office Management, we were taught to use print uppercase letters because it's the fastest of the three.

I do resort to cursive frequently, but it's because after having injured both of my hands so many times, it's the only way I can write at a decent speed- my handwriting now resembles a hybrid of cursive and teeline shorthand that's undecipherable to nearly everyone.

[The Brain]

the argument that students should be spending more time learning keyboard skills than cursive -- because that's the future! -- is beginning to look like a straw man

[jimmy olsen]

As a teacher, I'm proud to say I don't teach to the tards.

In Korea they mainstream special ed kids like a lot of place in the US do. This may make sense for some kids in some subjects, but for a foreign language it's just doesn't work.

[garbon]

By the time we reached grade 6, we were told never to use it again in school.

Why?  I think writing cursive is a bit faster.

They told us it was too messy, and thus should be avoided on tests an assignments.

We were told that we *must* use cursive, for strategic reasons.  Timing is one of the biggest challenges during exams.  Those who can write faster have an advantage over those who don't.  If you can write out the answers for 90 questions, you'll have a better chance than the guy who writes block letters and can only do 80 questions.  Therefore, we must practise our cursive whenever possible. 

Here one would get smacked down if whoever was the test reviewer couldn't read the handwriting.

[Eddie Teach]

I remember in elementary school I would get A's in all the academic subjects and D's in handwriting. Good riddance.

[Martinus]

Is nothing sacred? Next, the kids will stop learning how to use an abacus or wash their clothes with sand. 

[Martinus]

I was never good at cursive.  My handwriting is terrible and by high school I went back to childishly writing in block letter.  Doing so made my writing marginally more readable.

I thought cutting out words from newspapers and glueing them to a page would be more your style.

[Razgovory]

I was never good at cursive.  My handwriting is terrible and by high school I went back to childishly writing in block letter.  Doing so made my writing marginally more readable.

I thought cutting out words from newspapers and glueing them to a page would be more your style.

That's very time consuming, besides the days of typewriters (and the ability of the police to connect a typed out message and a typewriter), long dead.

[Pedrito]

I not only use cursive, but write my notes with a fountain pen.



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[Ideologue]

Cursive is fucking abomination.  Always has been.  It never should have been invented, let alone taught.

[grumbler]

Cursive was great for what it was designed for.  So was the buggy whip and the iron lung.  All of them should be enshrined in a museum, somewhere.