I don’t know where cursive is taught any more. Spelling will be the next to fall....
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In many schools, they are not being taught basic math. They give them calculators without ever teaching them their multiplication tables. I have taught high school students who had no idea of how to do long division.
OUCH - that's scary.
My daughter was taught how to use a calculator, and they do use them occasionally for certain work, but they are generally not used and they are not permitted to bring them to school. I had to refresh myself on long division when she was learning it because once I learned short division, I never went back to long.
I pretty much stick to paper and pencil with math, because I can rarely find a calculator around here and I have no clue how to use the one on my phone.
Since I am a retired secondary math teacher, I agree. It is really sad when they do not have the reasoning ability to tell if the answer they got on the calculator is not a good one.