WOW!!! I just read all of these posts and a lot of it really rings true and close to home. My daughter has been a teacher for almost 20 years. She has a degree/certificate in music education and secondary English. She currently has all elementary kids in the school at one time or another in a class called "fine arts". It's really music, but they can't call it that for some unknown reason. She has been a senior English teacher in the past, but really tired of the situation where, with incoming seniors, she had to teach them how to read and write enough to read the assignments and to be able to do the homework. This was an average school with average or above average kids. They simply could not read and write at even a sixth grade level. Her husband is the high school band director so the natural thing for her to do was get into the music end of it. Her students can at least read music after she gets through with them.
As for what we have in the real world, I can't tell you all I have seen. Where I work we have a couple of jobs that have a turnover rate of one or two per year. It's not a high paying job and mostly part timers apply. Problem is: Many cannot fill out a job application. We did have one who asked if we could email it to him in a PDF format so he could fill it out online.
I, too, had a similar experience at the local convenience store. Bill was $5.18, I gave the girl a ten, then started fishing for the 18 cents. She had already rang up the ten by the time I got the change out. She was confused and didn't have a clue what to do, so she voided the ticket and re rang the sale.
And yes, I understand problems can be solved faster and better with computers and calculators. Farming was mentioned, makes all the sense in the world to use technology. Writing takes time, time that can be used otherwise. I couldn't post what I just typed in a cursive style that everyone could read. I kinda scribble now.
History? NO excuse for not teaching it, lest we all relive it again.
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