Daily Chuckle

[MurraysMutts]

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You have to read through the article to get to the line about the neighbor's wife. They headline is only half of this crazy story. This other half is just as bizarre.

I'm still laughing!!

Poor ol Frank hadn't a clue!

 

[alacowman1]

 

[farmerjan]

Disgraceful that they don't teach it.... and that this company gave in...

Saw a blurb that California is requiring them to teach cursive writing.... but I do not have a subscription to the Los Angelos Times so could not read the article...

 

[farmerjan]

Some things are better left simple in some places...

 

[greybeard]

Saw a blurb that California is requiring them to teach cursive writing.... but I do not have a subscription to the Los Angelos Times so could not read the article...

Yes, I think it is now 11 states that have recently passed legislation to include an option or requirement to teach cursive. 16 states had previously done so, so the total is around 27 states that can or will be teaching it.

The problem (according even to the left leaning LA Times article) arose when Common Core came about over 10 years ago and it limited what could be included outside CC's curriculum. Cursive was one of the subjects that got omitted.

From LA Times:
"Across the country, cursive writing had been substantially abandoned for more than a decade in favor of teaching elementary school students to type after they learned to print letters. This anti-cursive trend was reinforced in 2010 when many states adopted the influential Common Core learning standards, which had dropped cursive entirely. Under the Common Core framework, states had limited flexibility to teach any skill that fell outside that curriculum. So many chose not to require cursive.

By 2016, only 12 states mandated learning cursive. Since then, however, 11 have reconsidered and restored cursive, with the latest being California and New Hampshire, according to a site that tracks cursive instruction."

(I do NOT have a subscription to LA Times but....A trick to viewing articles that include a paywall or anti-ad blocker software, is as soon as the page begins loading, click the X up above and to the left of the address bar. This stops loading the tracking software that checks to see if you have a subscription or if you are running adblockers and you can then read most of the article tho some of the pictures that might be included won't have had time to load)

(Probably belongs in the other section Religion/politics/controversy)

 

[Travlr]

 

[alacowman1]

Come to Pa Pa

 

[Bob-s]

 

[Travlr]

 

[Ouachita]

The only way we'll get out of this mess, will be when Hollywood programming includes broadcasting reruns of M.A.S.H. and Northern Exposure on a loop.

 

[MurraysMutts]

 

[jltrent]

 

[jltrent]

 

[greybeard]

I saw an advertisement for coffins and thought "That's the last thing I need.."

A pun is completely mature until it is full groan.

 

[jltrent]

These would be nice for a small farmer.

 

[jltrent]

 

[jltrent]

 

[alacowman1]

 

[alacowman1]

Bout 200 pnds.of to much weight, For that move

 

[Warren Allison]