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Originally Posted by ardeegee
Yes, learning a fancy-looking and faster method of writing is exactly like spending one's life as chattel. Thank you for bringing clarity to this issue, kind sir.
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Originally Posted by jkeene
I think it's certainly the "End Of Something". A form of slavery, that's what's ending. Conformance to a dead technology, and all that. Keep it as a high school elective, for those interested, but drop the mandatory aspect of it.
Now we should replace that lesson time with something useful, like basic financial literacy, and we can help eliminate credit card slavery next.  |
Perhaps you missed the phrasing "
a form of slavery", then followed up by an expansion of "
Conformance to a dead technology"? I never called it
chattel slavery, you leaped to that incorrect conclusion yourself.
Certainly cursive is often a faster form of handwriting than printing, though for today's schoolchildren I think that's not useful. Riding a horse is faster than walking, but mandatory classes in cursive handwriting are about as valuable as mandatory classes in horsemanship.