[Basic] Disadvantage of the Week: Dyslexia

[evileeyore]

Originally Posted by Flyndaran

I remember being downright humiliated and shocked when my 9th grade science class had an entire section dedicated to reading maps. It felt like a ridiculous waste of time when the legends were right there.

I'd have felt it a waste of time when there are perfectly good social studies* classes right over there to teach it. Courses that should be teaching it!



* Which is one of four different courses that taught "map reading" when I was in school. The first was social studies in 5th grade, the second was gym in 7th (we went for nature hikes), the third was Air Force JROTC in 9th grade, and the last and most humiliating for the person† who triggered it was my AP European history course in my senior year.

† Yes, somehow someone managed to get into AP Euro history in their junior or senior year of high school without having ever learned to read a map.

[Flyndaran]

I don't remember having a social studies class in that high school. The closest we had was History.

[roguebfl]

Originally Posted by Flyndaran

I don't remember having a social studies class in that high school. The closest we had was History.

So no Geography, Anthropology, Economics, Civics or Sociology?

Me I learned map reading in Scouts [both land and sea charts], PE (for orienteering) and Social Studies, I do not remember Science covering it.

[whswhs]

Originally Posted by roguebfl

So no Geography, Anthropology, Economics, Civics or Sociology?

Certainly when I was in elementary and secondary school there were no courses in anthropology, economics, or sociology. It was geography, history, and political science (called something else, and exclusively American in focus).

As for maps, I discovered atlases in elementary school, in the first few grades, and they were one of the things I fell in love with. I remember in particular reading H.G. Wells's The Science of Life with its maps of Earth with the sea level raised or lowered. . . .

[tanksoldier]

Originally Posted by Flyndaran

I don't remember having a social studies class in that high school. The closest we had was History.

We had mandatory Civics, Economics, US History and World History & Geography.

We had a Sociology elective plus World Literature, Art and various shop classes

[evileeyore]

Originally Posted by Flyndaran

I don't remember having a social studies class in that high school. The closest we had was History.

I didn't either. Note my pointing out learning map reading in 5th grade social studies?

Like, map reading and making were taught in my 5th grade social studies and reinforced every history and geography course thereafter.

It was only taught again in a high school social sciences class because we had a junior in our class who somehow made it into a college level course without ever learning map reading. And the teacher decided to make sure everyone else knew how to read maps despite everyone else saying "We all learned this like 7 years ago".

[Flyndaran]

Originally Posted by roguebfl

So no Geography, Anthropology, Economics, Civics or Sociology?

Me I learned map reading in Scouts [both land and sea charts], PE (for orienteering) and Social Studies, I do not remember Science covering it.

Small amount of geography in history class, but no option for the others at either high school I attended. At least I remember none being offered.

[Þorkell]

Originally Posted by roguebfl

Unless you know their school using computers for every subject it can, they had more than enough every day practive by age 8 for prace will make it better to be disproven, ther school might not teach cursive any more but the dest mean they dont teach hand writting

Never did mention cursive. I just have the expectation that a grown up person who has finished their mandatory education (so ages 16 and up) can write clearer and show that they have more control of the pen than an 8 year old. Many people whose handwriting I've seen don't meet that expectation, and I somehow doubt that they all have some condition that makes it so.

[whswhs]

Originally Posted by Þorkell

Never did mention cursive. I just have the expectation that a grown up person who has finished their mandatory education (so ages 16 and up) can write clearer and show that they have more control of the pen than an 8 year old. Many people whose handwriting I've seen don't meet that expectation, and I somehow doubt that they all have some condition that makes it so.

I'm not sure about anyone else, but when I was in elementary school, we heard "writing" used ONLY for cursive. Noncursive was called "printing." So when I see "writing" I still envision cursive.

[Flyndaran]

I just realized that I tend to assume the same.

I remember my brother getting "in trouble" for writing in cursive in first grade after we moved. The new school hadn't gotten to that yet, and American schools hate differences.