Why does pippa have the toddler pencil grip? I thought that was just a black thing. Wtf is wrong with American schools?
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@mangeurdenuage@shitposter.world
I had a girl in my class like that
but she wasn't dumb
naturally gifted with perfect pitch too
>naturally gifted with perfect pitch too
What's perfect pitch ?
The only thing I can do is to write with both hands.
she can still be of use
@mangeurdenuage you hold a pen between you thumb and index finger for better control over the tip
@mangeurdenuage they didn't teach it at school or did you just forget because everything is written on a computer anyway? i honestly do have to think for a sec before writing some letters in cursive
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@matrix @mangeurdenuage i hold my pen like this except instead of it resting on my middle finger it rests on my ring finger. always been that way. so maybe kind of like pippa's grip except my thumb is toward the tip instead.
i can't remember if they actually taught us how to hold a pencil or not. i have noticed that a lot of girls have this grip though whereas guys tend to have one closer to the picture. i had a girlfriend with pippa's grip that was super into calligraphy.
speculation
speculation
@kaia possible, but generally things that are trained well come naturally even in bad situations
re: speculation
less likely is that she intentionally wrote badly to not give away her real handwriting.
@matrix
American schools are day care centers that occasionally give lessons on specifically the civil war and world war 2. The actual mechanics of these wars is out of scope, the only reason they are brought up at all is to tell you how awful and evil and terrible the other side was.
Every day another video comes out where a middle or high school teacher says "70% of the students in my classes are unable to recite the alphabet or add two single digit numbers"
They also report that a good half of kids become feral and violent during network instability and they are unable to watch dancey videos.
The students are passed to the next grade because being held back results in complaints from parents.
@r000t the problem with that is that American students outperform their countries of origin
