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Originally Posted by Mack184
To all those who are laughing at teaching kids to write and comparing it to buggy whips. Exactly WHAT happens when our internet system gets compromised by an enemy or when the electricity goes off for long periods of time and all those wonderful computerized gadgets won't work as happened during hurricane Sandy? What happens when their cell phones and calculators won't do the basic work for them??
Of course! They can just stamp their feet and grunt.
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No, they'll just have to print instead of writing in script. My comment was only about teaching cursive, a skill that is not used anymore. I agree with everyone else who said that kids should learn how to add and multiply without calculators, they should learn history and geography, etc.