Our annual convention starts in the morning at the Convention Center in Vicksburg, Mississippi. On the agenda is Dennis Mouland, PLS as guest speaker. And the vendors will have the latest and greatest new equipment in the exhibition room next door. We usually have about 300 surveyors to come. Vicksburg is on the Mississippi River on the west side of our state, so we usually pick up a few surveyors from Louisiana and Arkansas, too. We usually have a good crowd every year. Our annual membership also includes membership in the NSPS. I am looking forward to this year's convention. My wife comes with me every year and shops the little stores in downtown Vicksburg. There are some really good restaurants here, too. Jackson is about an hour back east of here.
Here is a gem: cursive writing is not being taught in the public schools. So, how are future surveyors going to be able to read the old deeds? :excruciating:
On the other hand, the cursive writing I was taught is nothing like a lot of the old English stuff I see in 200 - 300 year old deed books.
Yes. This has been known for some time now. If you are expecting public schools to teach/educate children, you need to wake up and smell the coffee. Of course, there are some excellent public schools and teachers. Kids in gifted and advanced classes receive a very good education on the hole. Our son in 2nd grade became aware that he would not learn cursive and he took it upon himself to learn. He is in 6th now and still an honor roll/beta club student but we are thinking of going private school at this time.
There is a movement for more advanced math and science teaching in public schools. I have looked at the curriculum and it is far advanced from my time way back when. But unfortunately, there is a strong backlash from parents who are intimidating school boards to revert to old ways. It is a shame, they were moving in a positive direction. Parents and politicos are not giving it a chance to implement at schools. I don't want to make this a P& R post.
BTW, over here in Louisiana, we are always very grateful for MS to be always 50th in rank in for public education etc.
😉 bazinga
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> If you are expecting public schools to teach/educate children, you need to wake up and smell the coffee.
A conversation relayed to me by someone hiring a party chief a few years ago:
Boss: So what is your math background?
PC: High School math
Boss: Calculus?
PC: Nope, just regular High School math
Boss: Trigonometry?
PC: Nope, just regular High School math
Boss: Algebra?
PC: Nope, just regular High School math
Boss: Geometry?
PC: Nope, just regular High School math
Apparently you can make it through 12 years of primary and secondary education and have years of party chief experience with arithmetic being your only math knowledge
Harold, judging by your profile pick, I'm sitting two rows behind you...
Good looking guy with a beard...
the other day a kid with a four-year degree asked me to translate a cursive document
Awesome! He must have had a great mentor and teacher!
Actually, it was his own curiosity about cursive writing. At the time, he thought of it as some kind of secret writing like a code.
So he wanted to learn it. We made it fun by exchanging notes to each other. We even did backward writing to be read in a mirror.
Dennis Mouland was an excellent speaker. Though provoking and very professional. I highly recommend attending one of his seminars if given the chance.