some lady commenting on this saying she’s against removing cursive from public schools because how will we ever read the declaration of independence or handwritten notes? GET YOURSELF ACQUAINTED WITH THE INTERNET AND SIT DOWN.
this is from last year, but so happy to see massachusetts on the list of (2) states who’ve realized how much time we WASTE spending kids to write print letters “correctly” (touching top and bottom lines, etc… when is this ever useful? could we surpress personality any more directly / needlessly?) and then teaching them how to correctly write the cursive alphabet. waste of time. waste waste waste.
teachers tell me they have no time for math or reading groups or pre-assessments, but give out handwriting worksheet after handwriting worksheet like it ain’t no thing.
Raskolnikov’s inbox by Jimmy Chen of HTML Giant
how cute of an option would creating a character’s inbox be on a book report menu?
Today, I made business cards because I mean business.
Do you need business cards because you, too, mean business? GET IN TOUCH!
love these! every one should go check out tricia’s jewelry, it’s beautiful.
King said in an interview that this photograph was taken as he tried to explain to his daughter Yolanda why she could not go to Funtown, a whites-only amusement park in Atlanta. King claims to have been tongue-tied when speaking to her. “One of the most painful experiences I have ever faced was to see her tears when I told her Funtown was closed to colored children, for I realized the first dark cloud of inferiority had floated into her little mental sky.”
totally sharing this with my second graders during our mlk day breakfast tomorrow







