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Funny, but slighly off topic; I just had a long conversation about the opportunity cost of teaching penmanship in public schools. If my friend and I had worked
by elipsey 9y ago
Funny, but slighly off topic; I just had a long conversation about the opportunity cost of teaching penmanship in public schools.
If my friend and I had worked harder at penmanship, and less hard at optional studies in AP/STEM stuff, we'd be less employable but would have scored better on the hand-written part of our placement tests. We both got a lot of grief in school from the traitionalists for our crappy hand writing. She still can't write cursive!
- emodendroket 9y agoI mean I don't think being able to write in a way that can be read is some obscure, useless skill. I had to go through a lot of extra instruction in penmanship when I was a kid but it was totally worth it because a life where nobody could read anything I wrote would have been needlessly difficult.