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Cursive writing is very difficult for A.I. and computer programs to decipher.
There are ways a person can mine Bitcoin by translating cursive into print in order to teach A.I. Could this be the reason for phasing it out? Seems to me cursive will be one of the future methods of code talking.
Commented: Tuesday, October 1st, 2024 @ 9:01 pm
By: Will Simmons
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If you are talking about Comments, they are posted now (the publisher was away at a Bluegrass Festival), and nothing comes between Stan and his Bluegrass.
Commented: Sunday, September 29th, 2024 @ 3:14 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Beaufort NOW, I made three post on the 27th then again on the 28th.
Can you tell me why they have not posted? Thanks.
Commented: Sunday, September 29th, 2024 @ 11:56 am
By: Washingtonian
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What we need to do is elect school boards which will enforce the state law on fluency in cursive writing even if the school bureaucracy resists it. When I see someone sign their name in block letters, it indicates illiteracy almost as much as if they signed with an "X".
Commented: Sunday, September 29th, 2024 @ 9:45 am
By: Conservative Voter
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I've had teachers confide that their students either type or print. Young grownups conducting business with me admit they cannot read cursive writing. So much for an NC requirement on the subject. I suppose we now need translation pages attached to copies of the founding documents. It seems to be a foreign language for our young folks.
Commented: Sunday, September 29th, 2024 @ 8:52 am
By: Van Zant
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Tell me you’re old, without telling me you’re old.
Commented: Friday, September 27th, 2024 @ 3:54 pm
By: Big Bob
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According to a student at the Early College High School that I talked to most of the students there cannot even sign their names with cursive. They print their names in block letters. This is the top academic group in the county and it is sad that this life skill has not been taught better in our education system.
I also talked to a school board candidate who taught her own children cursive writing at home because they were not getting it in Beaufort County Schools, and actually had a teacher get upset at her for doing so. Personally, I think there are clearly teachers in our school system who do teach it, but also some that don't or just gloss over it. We need central direction to see that state law is complied with and that all students are fluent in reading and writing in cursive.
Commented: Friday, September 27th, 2024 @ 3:25 pm
By: Steven P. Rader
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Readers keep asking me about cursive writing. I never said it shouldn't be taught or used. I said my children were taught it in school but rarely use it. Almost all their work is done on computers. I work in the business world and almost never need to use cursive writing either. But I'm all for learning it because it's better to have and not need it than to need it and not have it. Just stop saying it's not taught in schools.
Commented: Friday, September 27th, 2024 @ 1:03 pm
By: True Republican
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Bolshevik Bob calling everyone right of center "MAGA" is like a conservative calling everyone left of center a communist. I know his talking points tell him to do it, but it is just dishonest. Conservatives come in many stripes, from traditional Reagan-style conservatives like myself to the populist nationalist MAGA style conservatives. That is not only true in America, but in Europe as well. ONly Little Bobbie's far left taling points will not let him see that.
Commented: Friday, September 27th, 2024 @ 11:09 am
By: John Steed
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MAGA - if you let these people near the schools, you will regret it. They cant govern
Commented: Friday, September 27th, 2024 @ 9:38 am
By: Big Bob
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Concerned taxpayer: You are correct. It is what Cheeseman intends to do long term about teaching found fathers. He is setting rules that will allow him todo as he pleases.
Commented: Thursday, September 26th, 2024 @ 8:14 am
By: Hood Richardson
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Well True Republican, do you write with cursive.
I do and I find it most comfortable. If your children arent using it, I dare to suggest it is because they were NOT taught to be proficient at it. They were likely discouraged from the use of it. The truth lies somewhere other than simply that your children naturally prefer printing. They were not taught to be good at it. I can recall practicing cursive writing was a lot like art. Very satisfying. AND, I can read OLD documents. Which reminds me of how the ancient Christian churches didnt want the people to be able to read the bible for themselves. Its all about control of the peons.
Commented: Wednesday, September 25th, 2024 @ 9:57 pm
By: Washingtonian
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I remember when George Washington was removed as the symbol of Washington High School, in the city of Washington, NC, which claims the high honor of having been the first named after President Washington.
Now, why in the world would they remove old George as our symbol. You all know. The woke was here even back in 1994 -95. A woke employee convinced the school and the Senior class that President Washington was old and dated. So they replaced him with some old ancient Greek symbols such as the winged feet of Mercury, the comedy and tragedy mask, and an oil lamp. Let's bring George Washington bust back as the symbol of Washington High School. Its only appropriate. Do the right thing for History.
Commented: Wednesday, September 25th, 2024 @ 9:50 pm
By: Washingtonian
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Cheeseman getting rid of a local attorney to bring in a liberal from Durham is not the only time he has outsourced school contracts outside the county, taking them away from local people in the process. One wonders what his gambit is with that? The sad thing is that our seat warmer majority on the school board keeps rubberstamping these moves.
The school grounds maintenance contract was snatched from a local company that held it for years and was doing a good job to give to a company outside the county which charges more money for the service. The website contract was snatched from a local company which was doing a good job and was low bidder to continue, and given to an out of state company that charged a lot more money and had a sketchy performance record. These are not the only ones. What we need are school board members capable of thinking for themselves and not being mere sock puppets for a liberal superintendant. Mack Hodges, T.W. Allen, and Eltha Booth are nothing but yes men and women for Cheeseman and badly need to be replaced. Cheeseman has just made this change on curriculum policy. What he intends do with it in the future is still unknown. Does it have anything to do with the fact that it is expected that a new search for a new social studies curriculum will begin soon?
Commented: Wednesday, September 25th, 2024 @ 10:09 am
By: Concerned Taxpayer
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"True Republican", you missed an important part of my questions. Why should a conservative county in eastern NC, whose school board is at least nominally Repubican, hire someone as school board attorney who is a partisan activist of the Democrat Party in one of the most leftwing counties in the state?
If you look at school board attorneys across the state, you will find most of them are local, and those that are not are mostly in adjoining counties. If no one in Beaufort County who is qualified wants the job, there would be plenty of attorneys in Pitt or Craven counties who might. We need people who think like eastern North Carolinians, not like residents of the Peoples Republic of Durham. Cheeseman has apparently brought this same Durham-based attorney into one previous eastern NC school district where Cheeseman worked. The idea is apparently that he will be the superintendant's attorney primarily rather than the board's attorney as he should be.
Commented: Wednesday, September 25th, 2024 @ 8:26 am
By: John Steed
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Beaufort County's Center - Left Coalition spends far too much money on the attorney that represents them, and then spends many additional tens of thousands of dollars per annum on additional attorneys for the handling the business that their Center - Left attorney is not capable of regarding the various tasks that need completing.
When there is a Conservative majority on Beaufort County's board of county commissioners, and the 3 RINOs are no longer power sharing with the 2 Democratic Socialists, there will be much thinking outside-the-Center-Left-Coalition-box on many issues, especially Beaufort County government's attorney conundrum.
Commented: Wednesday, September 25th, 2024 @ 8:10 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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John Steed, you asked me a question about the school board hiring an attorney from halfway across the state so I'll answer. Maybe they see HR arguing with the commissioners local attorney at every meeting and thought that might not be a good idea. I don't know the reason but I know it's normal practice for lots of boards to do so. Not here to argue with you just ask that facts be used and truth be told. With 2 kids in the local school system I know what goes on in schools here. BTW, they were both taught cursive writing in local schools but don't use it. Is that good or bad, I don't know. I want them to know cursive writing but I doubt they'll use it much. And btw, I would be just as upset as you if they weren't taught Founding Principles. But they were and are being taught. Give credit where it is due and when it's not I'll be the first to agree with you.
Commented: Wednesday, September 25th, 2024 @ 6:46 am
By: True Republican
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Translation, Bobbie, is that you are a woke ideologue who is to the left of Lenin and is all for the far left's Maoist Cultural Revolution against our history.
All schools in NC are required by statute to teach cursive writing. So you acknowledge that schools are not obeying the law?
Commented: Tuesday, September 24th, 2024 @ 9:31 pm
By: John Steed
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Translation-I’m right.
Btw- cursive writing isn’t taught because other than your signature, nobody, uses it. I mean nobody.
Commented: Tuesday, September 24th, 2024 @ 7:06 pm
By: Big Bob
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This removal of our founding fathers from the local school curriculum policy has just happened. It would not have impacted what has been taught in past years or even this year, yet. When a liberal superintendant who has pushed liberal curriculum previously pushes this change through, one can only guess where he may try to go with it.
Commented: Tuesday, September 24th, 2024 @ 7:11 pm
By: Rino Hunter
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Beaufort County is now one of the few counties in the state, and perhaps the only county, not to have some requirement in local school board policy of teaching our founding principles as part of the curriculum. PUtting this in local policy is important because many school systems have a habit of not following state statute even when there is a reporting requirement to the legislature.
A good example of that is on teaching cursive writing which is also required by state statute, and county school systems are required to report they are doing it. A number have learned that they can just fail to report at all and nothing will happen. Others regularly report they are teaching cursive writing when in fact they are not. In Beaufort County Schools, they file reports saying they are teaching it, and some teachers do and some don't. Here in Beaufort County we have too many students graduating who cannot even sign their name even though they are supposed to be fluent in reading and writing in cursive before leaving elementary school under state statute. It is because so many local school systems laugh at state staturory requirements that do not happen to be in favor at NCDPI. that it is essential that these requirements be placed in local policy. This excuse for deleting this material came from the school board's very liberal Durham-based attorney, who was also interjecting other excuses to water down what the conservatives on the board were trying to do. One wonders why a majority-Republican school board in conservative Beaufort County would not hire a local attorney to represent them, and why go all the way to Durham. That is particularly true since their school board attorney is presently or has recently served as vice chairman of the Durham County Democratic Party, one of the most leftwing units of the Democrat Party in North Carolina. Well, "True Republican", what do you think of this nominally Republican school board majority hiring a liberal Democrat Party activist from half way across the state as our local school board attorney? Hint: he was recommended by Superintendabt Cheeseman.
Commented: Tuesday, September 24th, 2024 @ 6:20 pm
By: John Steed
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My high schooler can verify that Founding Principles are taught in BCS high schools. Also, I researched it and it is a requirement by NC General Statues. So I guess the board saw no need to include it in a local policy since it is required. It's called American History in high school. So you're wrong again but accuracy has never been a priority on this blog site.
Commented: Tuesday, September 24th, 2024 @ 5:12 pm
By: True Republican
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A poll of North Carolina parents found that 71% expressed concern about political indoctrination in public school classrooms. This issue came up due to the woke agenda being pushed in the schools, which is mostly leftwing fiction instead of real history. The so-called 1619 Project is a good example, and its creator has even admitted it is not real history. That is the sort of thing the left wants to substitute for real history.
What the woke want to do with our history is the same thing Chairman Mao did with Chinese history. As George Orwell wrote: "The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history."
Commented: Tuesday, September 24th, 2024 @ 5:12 pm
By: Steven P. Rader
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