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by jimsojim on 4/14/25, 5:45 AM with 1 comments

• by andsoitis on 4/14/25, 6:09 AM

  ” Writing is done in the mind, though, not in the hands. It is baffling to me that some home educators spend hundreds of hours and an immeasurable amount of goodwill to teach handwriting. I can’t think of few worse programs than Handwriting Without Tears, an actual real life K-5 curriculum whose name I am not making up.

  We should teach our kids to type, until even better input modalities arise, and remind them that the essence of writing is composition, not calligraphy. None of the important writing they do will be by hand, so we should simply not waste our energy on extensive handwriting instruction.”

  He also derides teaching spelling.

  Eeeeeek