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DownriverDem

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23. Cursive writing should

Wed Feb 5, 2025, 11:53 AM

Feb 5

be taught. It develops fine motor skills and then our historic documents can be read in the future. I taught 1st grade for 15 years and loved it. I went back to college and became a paralegal because I worked in private schools didn't pay a living wage.

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MAGAt in the office yesterday told me "our town used to be great before they started shipping in these Puerto Ricans." [View all] AZLD4Candidate Feb 5 OP

the stupidity is incredible. I mean the utter lack of basic fucking knowledge... harumph Feb 5 #1

They survive on their emotions and rote learning. haele Feb 5 #8

I has always amazed me DENVERPOPS Feb 5 #37

I seem to remember someone saying something about this once whopis01 Feb 5 #16

The ignorance is willful. Straw Man Feb 5 #55

Unbelievable how ignorant they are! Emile Feb 5 #2

Misinformed and disinformed, too. Kid Berwyn Feb 5 #7

They wallow in the ignorance and wear it as a badge of pride! n/t the nelm Feb 5 #26

The stupid...it hurts! Liberal In Texas Feb 5 #3

They have problems with English-speaking brown US citizens too IronLionZion Feb 5 #4

magas hate being wrong because they keep bumping their noses on reality. Takes real effort to ignore that Bernardo de La Paz Feb 5 #5

mean as snakes. Joinfortmill Feb 5 #20

Snakes aren't mean! Cirsium Feb 5 #34

LOL DENVERPOPS Feb 5 #38

Naw Cirsium Feb 5 #40

The average walking speed of a human DENVERPOPS Feb 5 #50

I'd run Cirsium Feb 5 #51

I could go on and on about Western Rattlers DENVERPOPS Feb 5 #53

I am interested Cirsium Feb 5 #54

All I know DENVERPOPS Feb 5 #56

Thanks Cirsium Feb 5 #58

And they hate DEI because seeing people who don't quite look like their mirror image is upsetting to their frail egos Attilatheblond Feb 5 #22

Republicans DENVERPOPS Feb 5 #39

It's getting hard to even respond to these brainwashed delusional idiots anymore without feeling physically ill. hadEnuf Feb 5 #6

Local magat complain to me yesterday. He Emile Feb 5 #9

I ran into this after 9/11. yellowdogintexas Feb 5 #14

When 9/11 happened True Blue American Feb 6 #68

I would have said something to the effect that our oil barons obviously wanted the money instead of the SWBTATTReg Feb 5 #52

Minor Correction modrepub Feb 5 #10

What do they think Greenland would be? 33taw Feb 5 #11

White seaside resorts called the Snowy Riviera rubbersole Feb 5 #15

" she realized her racism was exposed" AverageOldGuy Feb 5 #12

MAGATs are stuck just below the pinnacle of Mount Stupid. FAFOs are now in the Valley of Despair. Marcuse Feb 5 #13

Yeah. Totally stole that graphic. Cheers. nt. druidity33 Feb 5 #59

! Marcuse Feb 5 #61

I'm American-Mexican. I say that because I was born in the US by Mexican parents ... aggiesal Feb 5 #17

Ugh, that janitor thing is common. Hubby purposely decided to work in Title 1 schools LeftInTX Feb 5 #29

well done. barbtries Feb 5 #18

Smile. I had the same thought. There's a certain KPN Feb 5 #25

I never learned barbtries Feb 5 #45

Yikes! It's worse than I imagined. KPN Feb 5 #57

Was taught the Palmer method in parochial school by nuns wearing habits, but BarbD Feb 5 #33

In my cedar chest, barbtries Feb 5 #44

Yeah, but you've got DU! ReRe Feb 6 #63

Dumber than rocks and proud of it. Joinfortmill Feb 5 #19

Kudos to you. Well done. You may not have turned her, KPN Feb 5 #21

Cursive writing should DownriverDem Feb 5 #23

Why are you speaking to this person at all? NameAlreadyTaken Feb 5 #24

Respect for authority? kerouac2 Feb 5 #27

They used to say that about the Irish, Italians, Germans Johonny Feb 5 #28

When I was in school, it was called penmanship, MacKasey Feb 5 #30

I am so sick of this country and the hatred of others who are different Dem4life1234 Feb 5 #31

I'm like you, Dem4life ReRe Feb 6 #64

They are psychopaths Dem4life1234 Feb 6 #69

I'm sorry but I've read this paragraph three times now and I still don't understand it : Exp Feb 5 #32

I was just wondering. How many still use Cursive? My Mother did. True Blue American Feb 6 #70

My boomer relatives... Ollie Garkie Feb 5 #35

Don't debate Hieronymus Phact Feb 5 #36

"Rarely is the question asked: is our children learning?" - GWB JoseBalow Feb 5 #41

You have far more patience than I do bif Feb 5 #42

She said all non-Americans need to get out. Mariana Feb 5 #43

Another victim of the face eating leopards sakabatou Feb 5 #46

"Samoans," Nasruddin Feb 5 #47

just another racist MAGA fuckface LymphocyteLover Feb 5 #48

If she's of European ancestry, then frankly she's here illegally. Clouds Passing Feb 5 #49

That's Like Archie Bunker's "Imported Ricans" ** NGeorgian Feb 5 #60

Just a quibble, I guess, but cursive writing is not an enemy, here RVN VET71 Feb 5 #62

MAGA as a movement Dorian Gray Feb 6 #65

What did you expect? OldBaldy1701E Feb 6 #66

Ignorance is NOT bliss ReRe Feb 6 #67