For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston for June 03, 2015

Well, it’s a start to kid the kids’ support.

Lizzy can write cursive?I thought she was 3 or 4.

Lots of schools don’t teach cursive writing anymore. When I went to school it was called long hand.

So Lizzie’s a leftie.

A Simpsons episode where the family moves and Bart is enrolled in a private school, but then he realizes how poor quality his old public school was:Teacher: Now class, copy this sentence and underline all nouns. Sentence{in cursive on blackboard}: Quentin and Amy went to the zoo on Monday.Teacher: How about our new student, Bart, dictate for us?Bart squints then struggles to dictateBart: 2-entin ond Owy….In private with teacherTeacher: So you never learned cursive?Bart: I know hell, damn, bit..Teacher{abrupt}: Cursive handwriting! The script. Do you know mutiplication tables, fractions, percentages or long division?Bart: I know of them. Bart is enrolled in the slow class

Well, a child’s signature might tug their heartstrings into keeping the building.

Rain 1, Parade 0

Lynn’s Notes:

Over the years, I have signed petitions based on the information given by the person who asked me to sign. I confess I didn’t always read the paper I was signing and could have been adding my name to a petition for, well… just about anything!

People rarely read what they sign. When I was in college we proved this by having 273 students sign a petition to have their heads cut off!That was clause #3 of the petition.Clauses 1, 2 , 4 had to do with getting an extra day off school due to a Tuesday holiday, ie Monday off would have made for a 4-day weekend!

Hey, Lizzie’s a leftie!