American Education Faces a New Challenge

It’s common for Americans to lament that things like penmanship (cursive) are no longer taught in our schools.  I’ve never been too sympathetic here, on the basis that there are only so many minutes in a school day, and everything we add in comes at the expense of losing something else.

And while we’re on that topic, the author of the meme here makes a good point: adding in training on dealing with active shooters means that our kids are receiving an even more lightweight education than they were before the proliferation of assault rifles into the hands of psychopaths.