re: What Are Things That Are No Longer Taught In School?

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1.How to read a ruler. 2.Cursive. 3.How to read a clock with hour and minute hands. These are all taught in public elementary schools here in Kentucky.

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So there is some hope!

We have created a society where a high school graduate cannot perform the most basic arithmetic without a smartphone, has very little knowledge committed to memory. I ham thankful my kids are old enough to be able to function well in day to day life even if their phone is dead.