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March 25, 2008
Moonbat Professor: Let's Abandon the Written Word
Posted by Dave Blount at March 25, 2008 10:23 AM
It's a good thing the education field is completely dominated by moonbats, because they're always the ones who come up with cutting-edge ideas — like no longer teaching children how to write:
My son, who is in third grade, spends much of his school day struggling to learn how to form the letter "G." Sometimes he writes it backwards. Sometimes the tail on his lowercase "T" goes the wrong way. His teachers keep telling him he may fail the state assessment standards. We have had several "interventions." Simon now fears taking up a pencil. Repeatedly being told his handwriting is bad (a fine-motor-skill issue) has become, in his mind, proof that he is a bad writer (an expression issue). He now hates writing, period.
This is absurd: I am a college professor and a freelance writer, and the only time I pick up a pen is to sign a credit-card receipt. Let's stop brutalizing our kids with years of drills on the proper formation of a cursive capital "S" — handwriting is a historical blip in the long history of writing technologies, and it's time to consign to the trash heap this artificial way of making letters, along with clay tablets, smoke signals, and other arcane technologies.
So, because her kid has a challenge to overcome, civilization should abandon the millennia-old tradition of the written word. I guess it'll be worth it, if it raises little Simon's self-esteem, without requiring him to exert any effort.
On a tip from V the K.
