My daughter was sitting next to me the other day while I filled out one of her forms for school. It was about her academic strengths, so it took a good bit of verbiage to fully capture.
“What are those scribbles?” she asked me, pointing to my hurried script.
It was a pretty sick burn about my handwriting, sure. But it also made me realize she had never been exposed to writing in cursive.
My favorite hobbyhorse is advocating for a new constitution for the state of North Carolina. But if I had to pick a second, it would have to be pointing out the absurdity of our public education governance.
I’m aware that tomorrow is primary election day, but I’ve said about all I have to say about that until the results come in. So let’s talk about this instead.
Like most states, we made the mistake a long time ago of believing that the responsibility for teaching young children is best farmed out to the bureaucratic “experts” who are adept at writing scores of pages of curriculum standards but don’t h…
