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        <title><![CDATA[Lol]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[It was a casual comment I made between bites of my lunch. If your looking for thesis quality writing, your in the wrong place.I think it is ironically funny for someone who has a compulsion to look at a website to tell him if he is a narcissist to make a judgement call on someone.Let me ask you when you are chatting with someone face to face, do you employ formal argumentation and grammar objections to half their comments?Furthermore, the only people I see using cursive in the professional world anymore are from doctors and lawyers. I think it has been proven somewhere that those professions attract a disproportionate amount of narcissists and sociopaths.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[nustada]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Tue, 26 Jul 2011 17:13:22 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[It would be illegible]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[My handwriting was never good enough to get me more than a D on the handwriting tests; that's why I gots Bs in English, not As.I've been a block printer since about the second week of college, when I started to study for a chemistry test and couldn't read my own notes.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[NickNielsen]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Mon, 25 Jul 2011 18:04:11 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Spoken like a true Narcissist]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I think you would benefit from taking the test at similarminds.com/types/selfabsorbed.html not to mention a course in grammar.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[oldthom]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Mon, 25 Jul 2011 10:00:19 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[No argument]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I agree with you Nick, the US is the only industrialized nation without a common set of educational standards and we are desperately in need of one. As he also pointed out, we are the only industrialized nation with a group of semi-autonomous states who have the power, to a large degree, of self-determination and there in lies one of the main problems, which I will not go into here in this debate. There are some wonderful and informative periodicals, studies and web resources available that will tell a very detailed story of where we stand versus those same industrial nations and why our students are no longer competitive in the world market and what that means for our future. We are stuck in the &quot;Made in the USA&quot; and &quot;Not Invented Here&quot; syndromes. We were once one of the (if not &quot;the&quot;) greatest examples of democracy and economic power in our world, we have not stayed ahead, much less kept up.My question is, do we have to settle for less than the best? Do we give into the special interest groups, corporate lobbyists, judicial litigators, corrupt legislators, and weak leaders who are only in this for the short-term ... for their own personal gain, power and of course the money? What I would propose would not work in our present fractured democracy with it's blurred nationalism.The debate will end for me here, and should end for each and every person in general - woman, child and man in this country - all need to start doing something about the decline of our education system. Get off your butts, end your addictions and apathy, do the research and put your vote where your mouth and heart lay.Oldthom signing off. (Go and send a letter, in handwriting, to a close friend or relative ... you'll shock the hell out of them! - as well as yourself!)]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[oldthom]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Mon, 25 Jul 2011 09:35:02 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Gender is a dead duck now]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Gender is a dead duck now. There is simply no hope that corporate authors will get back to the Victorian grammar rules that &quot;the male imports the female&quot; and &quot;the gender of an unknown individual is masculine.&quot; Thus, &quot;Each member shall pay his subscription before 1 February&quot; is correct. So is &quot;When a member of staff comes into the building he shall wear a name badge with his photograph.&quot; To writers of Hellspeak, also known as modern corporate English, the meaning is not fully apparent unless you change &quot;his&quot;  to &quot;his or her&quot; and &quot;he&quot; to &quot;he or she,&quot; which results in a horribly clumsy chunk of writing which conveys precisely the same meaning.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 24 Jul 2011 14:02:57 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[I am sure it happens]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[When AIDS was first discovered, the television advertisement that tried to scare people about it showed a stonemason cutting a tombstone to the tune of Dies Irae. Sure enough, when viewers were asked what sort of people were likely to contract the wonderful new disease, a lot of 'em said, &quot;Stonemasons.&quot;]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 23 Jul 2011 10:44:24 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Shakespeare did not live in the United Kingdom]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Shakespeare was born on 26 April 1564 and died on 23 April 1616. The Act of Union which created The United Kingdom took effect in 1707.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 23 Jul 2011 10:41:15 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What, then, do you recommend?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Every...every...time that I can remember national standards being proposed in the last four decades, people came out of the woodwork to complain that they were too strict, too lenient, not the business of the federal government, etc., etc., etc.The USA is the only industrialized nation with no common core of national education standards; each state is allowed to set their own, and most don't require the teaching of analytical thinking.  If anything has contributed to our economic decline and the current political Balkanization, this is it.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[NickNielsen]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 22 Jul 2011 17:44:59 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Very Anglo-centric, almost arrogant, that opinion]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I will continue to voice my opinion that cursive handwriting and writing are equivalent in ways far beyond that of the common dictionary definition.Pretty much ignores that other forms of writing (Kanji, Arabic, Devanageri, Cyrillic, Hanji, etc.) even exist.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[NickNielsen]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 22 Jul 2011 17:31:12 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Wow!]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Can't believe this debate is still going. Too lazy to read all of it yet. But I did notice something.Several posters mentioned that their children/grandchildren couldn't write cursively. It was my understanding we haven't yet dropped cursive. So it seems that the schools are already not teaching cursive effectively.  Or should that be the schools are teaching cursive ineffectively.So it seems we are debating whether the schools should continue to not teach something effectively or not. After all they could pick another subject to not teach effectively. Like math or science.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[LocoLobo]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 22 Jul 2011 16:24:55 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Which did you mean?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[&quot;... putting a condom on a vegetable ...&quot;Did you mean a practice garden vegeatable or an illiterate product of our dubious educational system. Or both? I can easily image one of our modern youth telling his girlfriend, &quot;Wait, before we do it, I have to go to the fridge and put a condom on a cucumber to keep us safe, like they taught us in school.&quot;]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 22 Jul 2011 09:46:26 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Oops. Grammar.]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Sorry joeller. It's&quot;... only to have HIM or HER stare at you blankly ...&quot; You are an intelligent and aware person, and it underscores your point (for which I voted positively.) The great unwashed masses are barely literate in their own language.Yes, the cashiers stare blankly  at me when trying to make change. Most go into shock if I playfully (and truthfully) answer their &quot;Paper or plastic?&quot; with &quot;Yes.&quot; They can't wrap their heads around that simple level of basic logic.By the way, I can still perform long division and square roots on paper.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[SirWizard]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 22 Jul 2011 09:37:20 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[The Decline and Fall ...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I read through many of the responses here on this site, as well as others, and it is painfully clear many simply don't see themselves in a declining state - I doubt many in Rome felt it in the early centuries after Christ, not until the hordes chipping away at the empire edges finally sacked Rome starting with the Gauls in the late 4th century. By then it was too late to solve the problems plaguing the empire. I wonder if anyone realizes that we are in the midst of such a decline here in America?So many here have given their opinions based their own emotions and personal views, I wonder, after having bothered to dig into the myriad of documents, studies and actual cases, if you would change your opinion once you were more informed? The Hoover Institute , through it's series, &quot;Our Schools and our Future&quot; (now a book and helped to spawn Education Next - educationnext.org), stated the following about 8 years ago, &quot;Do we care [that we are dead last on the list of 20 highest-income countries participating in a world-wide literacy test]? Economists tell us that human capital is more important than physical capital for long-term economic development. Weak educational systems won???t ruin the country overnight, but prolonged incompetence will eventually prove consequential.&quot; Handwriting has been shown to be a valuable part of the human capital as an investment in the education of our youth. Removing handwriting is just one more chip off the whole, perhaps not a critical one, but certainly an integral one.I urge all to look at the big picture, consider and take into account the long-term not just the short-term results of our decisions. &quot;Our decisions&quot; ... are they really ours? &quot;We the people ...&quot; are we actually making those decisions? One need only read through the CCSS Initiative to see where we are headed: a watered down, lowest common denominator, core of standards dictated to us by a failing government and their corporate/special interest backers. Proof that in reality we are more concerned about physical capital than human capital. Evidence that our Fall is right around the corner if &quot;We&quot; do not start speaking up, not as individual collectives or single-purpose/single-minded groups, but as a &quot;people&quot;.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[oldthom]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Thu, 21 Jul 2011 08:53:16 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Declaration of Independence]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[It would be sad to think future Americans could visit the National Archives and see the Declaration of Independence and not be able to read it.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[elder65]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Wed, 20 Jul 2011 14:45:54 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[The can't figure out gender either ...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Go to any restaurant with a member of the opposite sex.  Your waiter will come up to serve &quot;you guys&quot;.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Too Old For IT]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Wed, 20 Jul 2011 12:08:26 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Cursive Connection]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Not everyone can become an artist of reknown. Most anyone can learn to manipulate the hand to produce a line which in it's most elaborate form, is in fact art. Mentioned in other comments is &quot;eye hand coordination&quot; and what I suggest surpasses the limited scope implied by that concept. Learning the tactile even seductive skill of manifesting, bringing to the world that which hides inside of each of us alters the brain's construction in subtle yet far reaching ways, preparing us for what we will become. Our ability to speak, think and concieve ideas requires every tool we can provide ourselves. I still derive pleasure when my cursive seems to express internal stability as it flows on to the paper - a representation of me.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[ttwelve@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Wed, 20 Jul 2011 11:37:48 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[And if it had been written 2000 years earlier,]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[it would have been in hieroglyphics, or '1776' would have been 'MDCCLXXVI'.  Documents are written using contemporary character sets.Do you teach archaic English so your children can read the Magna Carta?  German so they can read what Martin Luther stuck to the church door?  Ancient Hebrew so they can read the original Ten Commandments?  How about Babylonian; you never know how inspired they might be by the Code of Hammurabi.You can read cursive; have YOU ever read the Declaration?Yes, there are plenty of skills that have been lost, usually because they aren't needed any more.  Educators don't want cursive 'removed'; they're asking if there are skills more appropriate to the 21st century that would be a better use of limited class time.  Unlike the guy who lost WWII, no one is saying you can't teach your kids anything you want on your own time.Speaking of which, I'm invoking Godwin's Law:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin%27s_law]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[CharlieSpencer_Palmetto]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Wed, 20 Jul 2011 10:24:23 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Forrest Gump]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[didn't 'live' in a era where computers were common in the workplace.  And Gump didn't have to suffer through learning it; he wasn't real, remember?]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[CharlieSpencer_Palmetto]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Wed, 20 Jul 2011 10:14:27 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[We agree.]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I have no objection to exposure to it.  Treat it like an art form.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[CharlieSpencer_Palmetto]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Wed, 20 Jul 2011 10:11:12 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[You quoted but did you read?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[If you had to learn cursive in grade school and hated it and now only print things, you still fit within the quote as you at least got to learn it and hate it.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[geek goddess]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Wed, 20 Jul 2011 09:53:21 -0700</pubDate>
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