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[Tawa]

as going into a fourth grade class and hearing the students chanting multiplication tables (a method that was once used for brute-force memorization as the "proper" way to teach math)

This is how I learned multiplication.

I just didn't learn them. Git gud at mental maths son.

No, I meant that was how they made us learn them.

[GiglameshDespair]

For what it's worth, I write in cursive when I don't really want people to read something but don't mind overmuch if they do.

Discouragement, yo.

[Rolan7]

@Fish Yeah if you want to write fast, learn legit shorthand. Or just make shortcuts while taking notes. Cursive bleeds into people's print and makes a nasty incomprehensible mess. From looking at my relatives' penmanship.

[miauw62]

Things are going well and I should probably be happy but I'm not. Damn hormones.

[Bohandas]

Its a useful skill to have if you actualy hand write things often,

Provided, of course, that no one will ever be called upon to read it

And, of course, with the additional assumption that you're using some old-ass quill or dip-pen and not a modern ballpoint or felt-tip.

[Bohandas]

Cursive should have died a long, long time ago - nobody benefits from knowing how to write it,

What about prop-makers for movies set in ye olde times?

[BlackFlyme]

Back to the doctor's sometime today. They open at 5, so by the time I get there, it will probably be packed.

I ran out of medication on Sunday. I think. Or my mom forgot to give me a pill yesterday and the day before, like she often does. Because she carries them around with her. Even after my doctor said that I should be the one in charge of making sure I take them.

My mom is embarrassed by it, I think. Absolutely no-one, not even our own family must know about this. Except my nan. Okay, so my mom's side is allowed to know, but not my dad or his side of the family.

I've felt down all day.

[Graknorke]

No, I meant that was how they made us learn them.

Yeah, I was "made" to learn them as well. And then didn't. It probably helped that I had a sympathetic teacher though, he pretty much said "I know you're not stupid and are capable of multiplying things so maybe just don't bother?"

[Lord Shonus]

Cursive should have died a long, long time ago - nobody benefits from knowing how to write it,

What about prop-makers for movies set in ye olde times?

Touché.

[Bohandas]

That's fascinating....I actually had the same thing happen to me when I was about that age. My grandmother had taught me cursive between 1st and 2nd grade, and I was getting in trouble for using it at school and chastised for not knowing how to write, because I kept adding all these little tails and loops onto letters (sometimes block print that I made "cursive-y").

My grandmother came in for a meeting with the teacher, who pointed out my writing and said she didn't understand where this was coming from, at which point my grandmother (a non-confrontational little old woman) just gave her the SRS BSNS look and this exchange followed:

Grandma: "He's trying to write in cursive."
Teacher: "That can't be, we haven't taught them cursive yet."
Grandma: "I taught him cursive last summer."
Teacher: "What? Please don't do that, it makes our job much harder when the kids learn things ahead of schedule."
Grandma: *VRY SRS BSNS look*

If I remember right, this is the same teacher that I got into an argument with on a science test. The test was on the solar system, and the question was "Which planet do you think is the hottest?"

Being an astronomy geek, I answered Venus, because I knew the average surface temperature of all the planets. She marked it wrong, which I protested.

Teacher: "You were supposed to answer Mercury, because it's closest to the sun."
Me: "But that's not right! Venus is hotter, I can show you in the encylopedia where it says that."
Teacher: "Yes, but the textbook didn't tell you that, so you were supposed to answer which one you thought was hottest."
Me: "I did. I answered Venus, because I know it's hotter, so that's the one I think is hotter."

Took my grandparents getting involved in order to get her to change the test score.

Should've gotten lawyers involved...

[Orange Wizard]

I read != as equivalent, IE in both directions. Might depend on context since I don't think it's real notation outside programming languages...

!= means "is not equal to" in programming languages, though...

[TheBiggerFish]

I read != as equivalent, IE in both directions. Might depend on context since I don't think it's real notation outside programming languages...

!= means "is not equal to" in programming languages, though...

Well it really means "is this not equal to the other?".

[miauw62]

I read != as equivalent, IE in both directions. Might depend on context since I don't think it's real notation outside programming languages...

Well actually, it would evaluate as true in any actual program context.
The set of all squares is not the exact same thing as the set of all rectangles, let alone dealing with ordering.  But I meant it to be read (Assertion that) "Set of all squares is not subset of set of all rectangles".

In a program context squares =! squares can be true if your set is an object and these sets are different objects.

The sensible thing to do is to properly overload the equality operators, obviously.

[Willfor]

My attempt to defend cursive writing goes awry mid-creation.

[TempAcc]

:v your cursive is even worse than mine, and even I managed to read it with no hitch.