Schools are removing analogue clocks from exam halls as teenagers 'cannot tell the time'

[bcking 3,157]

2 hours ago, Bill & Katya said:

Cursive writing left handed, now that is a challenge particularly for someone just learning!

1. Left-handed notebooks are a must - Otherwise you get those annoying "wire ring" marks in your hand

2. Stick with pencil as much as possible...or the driest pen you can find. Or get used to using hand sanitizer after you write (unless you are okay have a dark black smear along the side of your hand).

[Little_Vixen 1,869]

2 minutes ago, bcking said:

1. Left-handed notebooks are a must - Otherwise you get those annoying "wire ring" marks in your hand

2. Stick with pencil as much as possible...or the driest pen you can find. Or get used to using hand sanitizer after you write (unless you are okay have a dark black smear along the side of your hand).

Or learn Hebrew. I understand they write back to front. 

[bcking 3,157]

6 minutes ago, Little_Vixen said:

Or learn Hebrew. I understand they write back to front. 

Oh that would be great.

 

My teachers would get upset when I left wide margins on the left side of the notebook when writing. I had to show them the physical evidence of why for them to understand. With the giant ring binders it's really hard. With the tiny ring notebooks it is actually painful.

[Cyberfx1024 7,980]

12 minutes ago, Little_Vixen said:

Or learn Hebrew. I understand they write back to front. 

Arabic as well

[JimandChristy 1,689]

Sad state of affairs, I had kids some years ago who have never heard of the phrases "20 past" or "quarter to"

Edited May 2, 2018 by JimandChristy

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14 minutes ago, JimandChristy said:

Sad state of affairs, I had kids some years ago who have never heard of the phrases "20 past" or "quarter to"

I explained that to my kids over the weekend. Also like 8 o' clock sharp.

[Little_Vixen 1,869]

In Dutch we make it even more difficult.  We say ten after half eight. 

[Merle 458]

6 hours ago, Little_Vixen said:

In Dutch we make it even more difficult.  We say ten after half eight. 

German is like that. Es ist fuenf nach halb eins = it is 5 after 12:30 or it is 5 after 30 minutes to 1:00. Lol

[yuna628 9,873]

23 hours ago, smilesammich said:

i was discouraged early on by a teacher who commented on how i turned the page at an angle. i am left handed and tend to smear pen/pencil as i go..writing sideways helps. i then noticed how my dad wrote in all caps and tried to start doing the same, which my teachers quickly shut down as well. 

 

Growing up I did that too... as did my grandpa (us lefties stick together!) but I struggled with cursive and penmanship until they diagnosed me and stuck the bifocals on. The sideways paper thing for me also came with a head-tilt and closing one eye... so for a lot of lefties it's a sign of something more.  Ink smudging is a rite of passage I tells ya and finger blisters! They eventually gave up trying to insist upon how to hold a pen/pencil and just let me get on with it.

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14 minutes ago, yuna628 said:

Growing up I did that too... as did my grandpa (us lefties stick together!) but I struggled with cursive and penmanship until they diagnosed me and stuck the bifocals on. The sideways paper thing for me also came with a head-tilt and closing one eye... so for a lot of lefties it's a sign of something more.  Ink smudging is a rite of passage I tells ya and finger blisters! They eventually gave up trying to insist upon how to hold a pen/pencil and just let me get on with it.

my grandmother is a leftie and was 'retrained' to write with her right hand, as they did back then because southpaws were considered 'retarded', literally.

[Póg mo 1,749]

 

I have found a good exercise for learning good hand writing is to use your whole arm to practice each individual letter in the air. Start out really big, and then making your letters smaller and smaller. Left handed people tend to try write using their fingers and wrist to move the pen, rather than using their entire arm.

Edited May 3, 2018 by Póg mo

[yuna628 9,873]

32 minutes ago, smilesammich said:

my grandmother is a leftie and was 'retrained' to write with her right hand, as they did back then because southpaws were considered 'retarded', literally.

Yep one of the reasons why my mom was forced to use write with her right hand. After her injury last year, she's back to using the left out of necessity.

[NigeriaorBust 4,087]

  I am a retrained lefty, but my right handed writing leans like I am a lefty.   I have 3 kids and 2 of them are also left handed.  When they were small the one thing they were allowed to do while on time out was read.  They all are readers