Quote Originally Posted by JLC View Post
My handwriting gets worse and worse as I get older. It used to be very neat and tidy. Now my brain wants to write faster than my hand can keep up (I'm used to typing pretty fast, I guess).

Both my older children have atrocious handwriting, and my youngest (in Kinder) looks to be following in their footsteps. I found out that they don't even try to teach any sort of penmanship in schools now, because so much of what kids are growing up into is keyboarding (it's not even called "typing" anymore!) so they don't "have to know" how to write legibly.

Same thing with spelling...which I was quite horrified to find out. More and more schools are getting away from enforcing any sort of correct spelling or even teaching spelling because "everything" has "spell check" in it now. How utterly wrong is that???
That's scary! I love my son's second grade teacher. She used to teach 5th and really pushes our children to write in journals everyday. Heck, one of their spelling words this week is Ichthyosaurus. (ok, that's just a bonus word but STILL!!!)