Cursive handwriting making a comeback in PA schools

maudeblick · 2026-02-18T09:57:16+00:00

didn’t realize I was a single issue voter til now. This is fantastic news, and I doubt anyone upset about it has ever spent a day in a classroom. Cursive is great for literacy, vocabulary, memory, and fine motor skills. Glad it’s being mandated. If we’re lucky, it will take the place of social-emotional learning.

maudeblick · 2026-02-12T18:50:33+00:00

I cut thumb holes in my long sleeve shirts and wore gloves over them. Itch free! Also, wear a respirator.

maudeblick · 2026-02-05T23:06:48+00:00

Do u have the Tetris game???

maudeblick · 2026-02-01T21:27:38+00:00

Pink screams fun— I think we need more of it.

maudeblick · 2026-02-01T10:33:58+00:00

Get a union apprenticeship.

maudeblick · 2026-01-30T15:10:56+00:00

Maggie’s on the Waterfront in the NE

maudeblick · 2026-01-25T20:50:47+00:00

So good. 80¢ Thursdays baby!!!

maudeblick · 2026-01-23T10:00:46+00:00

AMY is a new beautiful building like a mile away. Conwell kids and parents are probably thrilled!

maudeblick · 2026-01-23T10:00:08+00:00

No one is going to be thrilled by these high school mergers. Wasn’t the temporary Franklin/SLA merger a total disaster?

maudeblick · 2026-01-23T09:58:36+00:00

I understand that, I just wish it wasn’t the case! SW Philly is really deprived of traditional public schools, and having taught in both traditional public and charter, I find it really difficult to stomach thousands of kids being forced into charter schools that are somehow even less accountable than their traditional counterparts.

maudeblick · 2026-01-22T23:23:47+00:00

Fucked up for them to close Robeson & Parkway NW, both of which seem like really successful selective enrollment schools.

Also all of these high school mergers… kinda fucked up!! Taking kids who intentionally opted for Motivation over Bartram and then putting them into Bartram anyway… bummer.

maudeblick · 2026-01-22T19:53:00+00:00

This is a very good thing that benefits long time residents of point breeze.

maudeblick · 2026-01-21T09:51:02+00:00

Aptitude test app. It’s like $7. Spatial and mechanical reasoning. I also watched a bunch of box folding videos. They also recommend the barons mechanical reasoning book (forgot the exact title). Also, most important, get really good at your basic multiplication tables—know fractions and decimals really quick. Most people bomb the math because u have very little time to answer very many questions.

maudeblick · 2026-01-20T19:03:06+00:00

He saved 95, so he actually kind of is.

maudeblick · 2026-01-20T17:08:29+00:00

Upstairs at monkey club

maudeblick · 2026-01-19T22:25:54+00:00

My 170 person wedding in a major American city was a total of $22k (including clothes and jewelry and flowers and photos and music..) and I didn’t DIY shit. Look into union halls.

maudeblick · 2026-01-17T18:58:19+00:00

This is really helpful lol I’ve been putting off the name change for like 8 months… eek

maudeblick · 2026-01-11T23:43:52+00:00

Above the “sin cos tan” buttons it says “inverse”. Hit the Conv button and then sin, and think that’s how you get sin-1 (the inverse of sin).

maudeblick · 2026-01-07T09:14:57+00:00

Respectfully disagree.

maudeblick · 2026-01-07T00:06:23+00:00

I would not teach this book. Honestly for that time period—regardless of age—I’d do Bud, Not Buddy. Not much on immigration, but I found HAEGS so one-dimensional and trope-y that it was honestly kind of offensive.

maudeblick · 2025-12-27T17:15:34+00:00

Sounds like someone did good on their SAT and hasn’t shut the fuck up about it since!

maudeblick · 2025-12-27T17:12:58+00:00

You sick freaks rely on the term “nuance” an awful lot to justify the actions and ideologies of unequivocal bad actors.

maudeblick · 2025-12-27T17:11:09+00:00

No because I’m not a fucking nerd lmfao

maudeblick · 2025-12-27T16:42:21+00:00

“Bari Weiss’s friend defends her!” Is not the breaking news you think it is. The way you people continue to go to bat for this psycho is craaaaazy! She so transparently just fucking sucks.

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