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So, the legislature is advocating theft. A school district buys, builds, and maintains a property using tax dollars that, in many cases, the taxpayers specifically voted on. The legislature advocates taking that property — and its value — away from the district and giving it to a third party. If people are upset when land is taken for eminent domain, they should be outraged by this.
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Total BS to make schools sell buildings for $1!! I completely agree they should not keep buildings they don’t use or underutilize. But if we expect them to learn to be fiscally responsible, they should expect to get at least something close to fair market value when selling.
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Sen. Jean Leising, a Republican from Oldenburg (an ironic place given this topic), stated, “A lot of our younger people can’t read cursive now, because they were never taught cursive. Not that they have to use it in their real life, but it certainly would be helpful to them in their adult lives to be able to read cursive.”
What does she mean by “real life” and “adult lives”? If there a difference between the two? In the 21st century, cursive is an obsolete form of writing – and is hardly something that will lead to a higher paying job in real life.
That last things to be written in cursive was a signature on a legal document or a check. Now even those accept digital signatures. If Sen. Leising wants to prepare our kids for a better adult life, she should advocate for universal Pre-K education and a stronger emphasis on STEM subjects.
cursive is such a waste
“All too often, buildings are being kept open to use for storage or offices, when there are much less expensive options available.”
Maybe if school districts could sell buildings for $1, they could afford the up-front costs of moving offices & storage to smaller buildings.
I think that having a process by which charters can get closed schools is good, but even that should probably have provision that allows school districts to sell to a charter school OR to a private party for 110% of the land market value. Then there is this proposal, which goes too far.
To add on to Brent’s comment, Jean Leising’s obsession with cursive is insane. I was taught it back in the early 2000s, but I’ve not needed to use it a single time and have since forgotten it.
Wasting resources to teach kids cursive in 2023 would be like teaching kids how to use vacuum tube computers, except without a physics lesson to take home. It’s not just impractical; it’s pointless.
Cursive is an art and an advanced form of written communication that every student should have the opportunity to learn. Like many other subjects taught, not everyone is going to become proficient at it, but that doesn’t mean it’s not important. Society, and employers, judge people by many things – appearances, stature, communication skills, etc., being able, or not, to read and write in cursive will impact a person’s life, whether they want to believe it or not. Personally, I don’t know any successful person that can’t read and write in cursive.
So when Intel passed on Indiana to build in Ohio, they did it because we don’t mandate cursive?
Why don’t we also mandate how to use a rotary dial telephone too?
The state legislature does not own these buildings. The tax payers do. Stop stealing taxpayer money to had to your lobbyist friends!!!
Cursive isn’t a waste for kids to learn. I learned it and I have to read and write it every day at my workplace. Cursive is critically important to a first-rate education. Just the ability to read notes from other people, sign legal documents that require a signature, as well as a printed name, or the ability to read letters from other people. There are so many everyday reasons why a child needs to learn cursive. Being able to read and write is empowerment. Don’t we want our kids to be competitive in the world and have skills that match up with previous generations, and their current peers in other states and around the world? Since when is requiring the bare minimum from kids a sign of a superior, first-rate state or country? Enough with mediocrity. Let’s bring back cursive and be a competitive state, with good education for our kids.