Academia is recursive

matt · 2/24/2025, 9:04:51 PM · permalink

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nevertheless · 2/24/2025, 9:20:06 PM · permalink

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jessa · 2/28/2025, 3:58:58 AM · permalink

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blueberryeyes · 2/28/2025, 3:46:44 AM · permalink

Hopefully, this is the right place for this.  
  
Through my experience in law firms and recent research and education in contract law for purposes of establishing (or reestablishing) myself as an American National free of the DC Federal Corporate trap, one thing I learned is that everything is contractual, on paper and often implied by verbal agreement. In the contractual world, my signature is gold. It can open doors or close them. It can get me into good and bad, or out.  Blue ink, black ink, red ink. I don't even sign those little handy signature pads that get slid before me to "please sign here." I enjoy asking "what am I signing for here?" just to get some vague response to which I reply "I'm not signing  that" or "please print out for me what's on the other end of this signature. I'm not signing until I read it and agree with all the terms." This can be entertaining.  
  
One quick example: I go to a bank to cash a sizeable check that draws from that bank. It's not my bank. Reasonably, when asked for my ID, I'm okay with that. With the teller directly in front of me watching, I endorse the check and slide it to her. She looks at me, my ID, and the check. She walks away for about 5 or so minutes, comes back, and slides the little black pad and pen to me and says please sign here. I pick up the pen then remember "my signature is a contract." I look at her and ask what is this I'm signing? She replies that it proves you are the one that endorsed the check. I laughed and said, I just proved that by signing in front of you. You're my witness (and there are cameras everywhere.) I'm not signing this pad. She was a bit taken back and looked a little miffed and said, oh okay.  That experience was 100% freeing and empowering. (🫡 Try it sometime.)  
  
What the hell was on the other end of that signature pad? Hmmm?  
  
All that being said, my 11 year old grandson, in the 6th grade, who is as smart as they come (no brag, just fact), asked his mom the other day why don't they teach cursive at my school? I want to learn cursive. Yes, why DON'T they teach cursive? I began learning cursive in the 3rd and 4th grades. It was my favorite thing to learn and I've used it all my life.  
  
Why aren't kids being taught cursive?

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justsomeguy · 2/28/2025, 2:37:27 AM · permalink

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nevertheless · 2/28/2025, 3:51:07 AM · permalink

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