You know… here’s the thing…

Years ago, I’d be on Reddit and reading the usual rants and raves about the government, and how the public should be wary of it and we are heading into a security state… and I always positied that the real threat actors WRT privacy and security were going to be companies like facebook and google and the businesses that made internet-connected devices.

Compared to them, as far as data colleciton and surveillance of people - the government was filled with rank amateurs.

I’d consistently get downvoted or pooh-poohed for being “naive.”

God fucking dammit… on this… I am absolutely pissed off that I was calling this one - and have been - for over a decade.

FML, I hate this SOOOOOO much.

Holy shit. Lemme guess… it’s a southern state and in a majority black district?

This was a public school and they tolerated this shit?

Sweet Jesus the standards have fallen.

Is it the parents, school board and administration or a combination of all 3?

The fine motor control that comes of handwriting is critical if he likes to tinker or discovers any sort of work/hobby that requires manual dexterity.

Keep pushing on that, also, get a book on how to print like you’re writing the dialogue in a comic book or how to print like an architect making a blueprint. If he can work out the shapes and spacing, he can develop his own legible style in time and move on to a fusion-style cursive with those print shapes… It realy does make a difference in note-taking.

My dad was a design draftsman and taught me how to do that block print that I’d see on blueprints, and I have a super easy to read cursive based on that now.

… it’s a problem that’s arisen because class sizes are out of control …

If I may ask, just how large are the classes today?

For reference, in 1980, my 10th grade English class (Mrs. Chase, she was awesome) had 36 students.

That was average for my school at the time.

The BIG classes like general US History (taught by Mr. Conway, who was wildly popular) had 40+ kids.

Mr Conway also kept a real honest to goodness stocks in his class room, so anyone that misbehaved had two options… into the stocks for the class or off to the assistant Vice Prinicpal’s office and spend a day in ISS. (in school suspension)

There would ALWAYS be one jackass Junior in each class that would opt for the stocks, at the start of every year and then NO one EVER caused a beef in Mr. Conway’s classes - or really ANY of the government studies (US History, Civics, Social Studies) deparement classes… Hearing about who chose the stocks and the rumors usually scared the underclassmen shitless, so they rarely ever piped up… except for the really stupid smartasses that always tried to test how far they could go…