Is it racism or ageism to deny him?

Lynn mayor probes fed school rule... after 35-year-old student enrolls

http://bostonherald.com/news_opinion/local_coverage/2014/08/lynn_mayor_probes_fed_school_rule

Weird that he would do that because there are free community college classes already for older illegal immigrants.

A relative came to live with me for a couple of months on a vacation visa just to fool around before college and he enrolled in the classes to better his English. He came home and was like WTF PPEN THESE CLASSES ARE FREE INCLUDING MATERIALS. THEY DONT ASK FOR ANYTHING

You see in most Latin American countries you have to pay for everything (including text books) and they know everything about you.

He told me most people dropped out but he kept going and I thought he was really dedicated to learning but it turns out he was picking up girls with his improved English. I used him to translate what the hell my Cuban boyfriend would be talking about but neither of us could figure it out so we just left it at that.

Some nice simple and fun things to enhance your smartphone picture taking:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTz4Nhgm_SQ

I don't think it's racism or ageism to keep someone over 19 out of K-12.

Google seems to show several Adult ESL programs in or near Lynn, Ma.

Were you taught to write in cursive? Apparently, quite a few young people weren't, and this professor mourns the loss.

RPM Daddy: I went to school when computers weren't accessible to most people, word processing software wasn't thought of, and even electric typewriters were uncommon. So cursive was definitely required - but I was not taught to write it. Not effectively.

Effectively teaching cursive would require rearranging the curriculum to introduce it a few years later, when (most) boys developed the fine motor skills needed to write cursive. Probably it would require separate classes for girls and boys, because girls usually develop these skills earlier. And teaching cursive to every child would require further accommodations for boys and girls whose development is far from the average - e.g., I was years ahead of my classmates mentally and years behind them physically.

But all that would be inconvenient for teachers and administrators, and public schools are run for the education establishment, not for the students. Neither students nor their parents are paying customers... And so I was "taught" to use cursive when it was physically impossible for me to do it well, and not taught later when it might have done some good. I can jot down notes at a fair speed, and doing so is a great help to getting information into my memory - but after a few months, even I can't read my notes. I can (or could - it's been decades now) write cursive that is barely legible to an experienced teacher, but at a painfully slow speed. I can even hand letter engineering drawings, but that is block letters, and I am drawing them very slowly, not writing.