YOU MEAN, COMMON SENSE IN EDUCATION – AT 1:12 P.M. ET:  Stories like this give me hope for the future of our country.  And I love it when "educators" are taught what education really means.  From The Hill: 

The Ohio Senate passed a bill Thursday requiring each student in the state to be able to write in cursive by the end of the fifth grade. 

The measure, also known as House Bill 58, was passed by the Ohio Senate and would require the state’s Department of Education to craft a new curriculum for students before the start of next year. 

Under the new measure, students in the state would be required to legibly write letters in print by the end of third grade and write in cursive before going on to sixth grade.

According to a local Fox station, the Ohio House of Representatives first approved the bill in June.

The legislation was first introduced in February 2017.

Any changes to the measure must reportedly be approved by the Ohio House before heading to Republican Gov. John Kasich to be signed. 

COMMENT:  This is great.  It is outrageous for children to go through school without learning how to write in basic cursive...the kind of writing we all do to write notes, memos, letters, and anything else.

There are smug "sophisticates" who tell us that, in a world of computers and tablets, all with keyboards, no one really needs to learn cursive.

Oh yeah?

Grab, by the collar, anyone who tells you that, and march him down to the nearest Staples.  Point out the whole wall filled with choices of inexpensive pens.  Ask him if he wonders who uses those things, and why Staples carries them.  The answers are obvious.

I am about to write a shopping list, in cursive.  Eat your heart out.

December 9, 2018