On Teacher Appreciation Day I’m going to make a bunch of memes about how TEACHERS AREN’T THE ONLY TEACHERS.
It’s one damn day out of the year to appreciate moms, who do in fact do a LOT more than most aunties, godmothers and teachers.
Why is this so hard?
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Yet another example of the kind of coverage that is so distractingly wrong that it makes it hard to focus on the supposed bigger issue. I continue to be mystified by editors who feel they need to do stuff like this
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I believe that not only cursive writing, but cursive writing with a pencil on scratchy low-quality paper helped kids learn to read and spell. That muscle effort plus the slow painstaking creation of each letter while saying the sound of the letter in your head or outloud—and then blending it into the next connected letter—how could this not be helpful?
