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Take jobs as they come -- and we'll never be under the heel of nobody ever again. No matter how long the arm of the Alliance might get, we'll just get ourselves a little further.
Mal ,'Out Of Gas'
Natter 63: Life after PuppyCam
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Gudanov - Apr 30, 2009 6:38:04 am PDT #17417 of 30000
Coding and Sleeping
megan walker - Apr 30, 2009 6:38:39 am PDT #17418 of 30000
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
It's bizarre to me because in France they don't learn printing. Obviously you do it on forms, but they don't teach it as a first step to writing.
Gudanov - Apr 30, 2009 6:40:24 am PDT #17419 of 30000
Coding and Sleeping
And then the fact that standardized tests through grade school do not require it. If it is not tested on, there will be calls to drop it.
I could understand that. Here, there is pretty much a month and a half of school year given over to the high stakes tests and preparing for them.
Barb - Apr 30, 2009 6:42:42 am PDT #17420 of 30000
“Not dead yet!”
At Nate's school they're starting to progress into typing/printing their papers out. He actually has dispensation to do this for all his written work because he has processing issues. He has horrible handwriting and it's just difficult for him. I don't think he'll ever have particularly good handwriting unless he decides at some point to really apply himself to learning.
Hil R. - Apr 30, 2009 6:57:43 am PDT #17421 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
I learned cursive, but was never very good at it, and it never felt natural. In elementary school, teachers required that we write things in cursive, but as soon as they stopped requiring that, I went back to writing in print.
Gudanov - Apr 30, 2009 6:59:12 am PDT #17422 of 30000
Coding and Sleeping
I gave up cursive pretty quickly too. I always thought my print was easier to read.
Kathy A - Apr 30, 2009 7:05:10 am PDT #17423 of 30000
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
My brother got all screwed up in his cursive writing education. When he was in 1st grade, the school taught cursive in 2nd grade. He changed schools at the end of that year, and the new school had already taught cursive in 1st grade. So, he had to teach himself, and his cursive is appalling to this day.
P.M. Marc - Apr 30, 2009 7:05:30 am PDT #17424 of 30000
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
I only write in cursive.
Frankenbuddha - Apr 30, 2009 7:15:56 am PDT #17425 of 30000
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
For Perkins:
DINAO - Bacon or Swiss Cheese?
Lee - Apr 30, 2009 7:20:03 am PDT #17426 of 30000
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
Pooner
eta: bacon