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Children Do Not Want To Memorize

A fit is thrown at the mere suggestion that they have to memorize something. Memorization is boring. They refuse. What is the point? We have the Internet. We have I-pads. We have I-phones. We do not have spelling lists any more. Spelling tests are passé’. Too boring. Too much memorization. What is the point? Math facts? Why should we learn them? They are on the Internet, right? Our standardized tests scores are in the toilet. Who cares? As long as we can play our nightly video games. We do not have to read for many of them. Multiplication tables? Overdone. Addition facts? Useless. Dictionary? Fiction-ary. Children of today will not be able to write a sentence or spell a word or check their paychecks If technology goes down. We can say we are paying them $500 an hour, and pay them $3 an hour. It is the way of the future, and is this not grand?

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M. L. Kiser

Date: 10/29/2018 10:35:00 AM

No it is not grand; it is terrifying; they're the ones who will be taking care of us and taking charge of our medicines and dosing us when we get old! Yep, it's true and terrifying.

Caren Krutsinger
Date: 10/29/2018 10:37:00 AM

And what can we do M.L? I am open for suggestion, and the world is needing a really good one.

Rhona Mcferran

Date: 10/27/2018 9:37:00 PM

This is a scary sight to see...

Caren Krutsinger
Date: 10/27/2018 11:06:00 PM

Scary and true.

Eve Roper

Date: 10/27/2018 5:12:00 PM

One on the things I hated when I worked was when they wouldn't use their mind to work a math problem (calculator) grr...

Caren Krutsinger
Date: 10/27/2018 11:06:00 PM

It is getting worse, Eve, much worse.

Ilene Bauer

Date: 10/27/2018 9:11:00 AM

i can still remember the poems i was forced to memorize in elementary school and i'm happy to have those words in my brain. it is sad that kids today see no reason to do these things. so far, my grandkids (ages 3 & 5) love for me to read to them - i'll be so very sad if that ends...

Caren Krutsinger
Date: 10/27/2018 3:46:00 PM

I love reading to children and most of them respond rather well to the rhyming books, and the picture books. I hope you can keep them happy with it. It's tricky as later after they join the virtual world, books somehow seem slow.

Kim Rodrigues

Date: 10/27/2018 7:47:00 AM

It really is crazy! I try to show my grandson a map...I'm not interested, he says. Curiosity stuffed in Pandora's box!

Kim Rodrigues
Date: 10/29/2018 9:03:00 AM

They are so honest. For me would have loved more barbies, reading, movies but you find out they are not mini you so you must get to know them. My first two LOVED reading at bedtime but not the boys.

Caren Krutsinger
Date: 10/27/2018 8:07:00 AM

I try to read to my grandchildren. One said this to me, "Grandma I know you are a teacher and this might hurt you, but I do not want to read. School is not fun for kids."

Tom Cunningham

Date: 10/27/2018 4:21:00 AM

Scary but true, already kids these days have no social skills interacting with real people.Ive heard of kids printing off work off websites and handing it in as their own. We've gone wrong somewhere for sure. Tom.

Caren Krutsinger
Date: 10/27/2018 6:23:00 AM

It is amazing what lengths a child will go to if they do not know how to read, Tom, and yet you have to admit there is a bit of genius in figuring out how to print off a website if you cannot. Right?