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He is blaming “screens” but he needs to consider whether the admissions process causes this, not “screens”. Maybe they are admitting students with no practical
by massysett 8y ago
He is blaming “screens” but he needs to consider whether the admissions process causes this, not “screens”. Maybe they are admitting students with no practical knowledge, and maybe this has changed in the past ten years.
For instance maybe in prior years applicants were more likely to have practical job experience: a summer job in retail, fast food, etc. Now maybe they only select students who have programmed existences.
Just seems odd to me that he would make this observation then suddenly jump to blaming it on “screens”.
- kopo 8y agoI see handwriting has gone to the dogs these days so maybe he is onto something...
- vanderZwan 8y agoWhen I was a kid, in the year before we started learning cursive writing, we spent a long time[0] practicing drawing neat swirls and lines a few times a day in class. It was fun! And it definitely made a difference in preparing our fine motor skills for learning how to write. I know this for certain because for whatever reason[1] our recent government decided to drop that preparation part of children's education, and teachers have noted that handwriting has gone to crap within the span of a few years. [0] Hard to say if it was weeks, months or a full year, because everything more than a day away is long when you're five. [1] The answer, as always, is budget cuts: trying to spend less money on teachers and material and time. I find this especially infuriating because our centrist/right-wing politicians always claim that the progressive ones don't have a clue about economics, yet somehow are blind to the fact that good, accessible education as early as possible is one of the best long term ROIs a country can make.