State of California school system gets rid of books

The don't teach it in the Dallas Metroplex either. My son has terrible handwriting, and I wound up teaching it to him for no other reason then it does help with the problems he has (poor formation, word spacing, readability).

I also hate to tell you, most schools are back to trying to make the left handed kids right handed again. As a lefty, with a lefty, this has caused lots of arguments...and one of mine is in 8th grade.

Grammar: I went through 12 years of public school, and because I was a reader, I was placed in advanced classes for English and never once learned grammar. When I had to do summer school my Junior year, the teacher noticed and taught nothing but that all summer. She and I have both said that the summer was worth it because I actually learned something.

This may be an improper use of the word "conditioned" in English. In French, the word "conditionné" means something like "programmed" or "prepared" in English. That would be a better term, I think.

By "cursive" handwriting, I suppose you mean the normal, usual way of shaping characters ? What's coming in its place then, writing in all capitals ? I don't understand this, it doesn't make sense.

Not to the Stone Age, no; there are too many people around with all kinds of specialized knowledge in their heads and with all the experience and technical expertise of their careers. We wouldn't have to invent the wheel again nor the fire, not even gunpowser, optical lenses, steam engines or ways of producing electricity. Think of everything now known about architecture, medicine, agriculture, etc. etc... It would be a totally different deal this time around.

If a Carrington type event happens in our lifetime, it won't be so bad, as far as loss of knowledge...we'll be able to recover...if we continue to convert more and more to electronic only form and it happens in our great grandkids lifetime, it will be devastating. No, we won't have to reinvent the wheel, but we will lose soooo much valuable information.

They're not going to teach things like cursive writing.

So what's she gonna do when an EMP fries it's circuits.

Au contraire.

It ALL comes down from the federal level. Listen to whistleblower Charlotte Iserbyt, author of "The Intentional Dumbing Down of America." She worked in the Dept. of Education in the Reagan administration; she knows.

Maybe I didn't get your meaning, but I think you are kind of contradicting yourzelf : "it won't be so bad, as far as loss of knowledge" and "we will lose soooo much valuable information."

Could you pls clarify somewhat ?

Here is a sample of cursive.

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Oh, sheesh...Seriously?

We are starting to convert to electronic school books...

It's just the start. If we have a Carrington Type event today, it will be terrible, but we'll still have many, many books in print that we can get ahold of to continue teaching our children. Those schools that are using only electronic form will suffer, but we'll be able to figure it out.

(Regardless of what most people's idea is of The End of the World or "bugging out," the truth is that we'll probably only have The End of the World as We Know It event and our children will eventually need to get back to "regular" activities, like learning.)

Anyhow, the more time goes on and the more we convert to electronic form, the less and less we'll have printed books...I believe Webster's has already stopped printing Encyclopedia's, but don't quote me on that, I've been known to be wrong before. Anyhow...

If, eventually, all schools convert to electronic form and we have a Carrington type event, it would be catastrophic in my opinion...

I'm saying that the more we convert to e-book, the worse it'll be IF and when we have an EMP event. Understand? Fifty years from now, there will be less and less printed books...It'll be like that movie The Book of Eli...watch it. :-)

I hope that clears up the confusion...

Oh, and one more thing...why are you being so persnickity? Sheesh...

Book of Eli, and The Postman

Glimpses into our future...

What's the point of having them anyway? All of California's kids will be utterly illiterate when they leave anyway.

In my ever so humble opinion...Books are one of life's greatest treasures!!!!!!

I just bought both my kids books for Christmas.

I love them and would go insane without them. One kid loves the books, the other will read if he's interested. Part of that is parents who read and tell them to "look it up" while handing them a book.

Many parents don't have books in the house anymore, either. My husband is dyslexic, and he owns books (and reads them, however slowly), so what's the excuse?

Hehehe, I have seven bookshelves in the house jam packed with books and about 30 boxes of books in the garage...I think it's a crime to throw out books. :-)

I used to read every night to my two older ones...read every night to my 8 year old. That's the most special time in the world.