Casualty? I beg to differ.
My penmanship was always so poor, that I couldn’t read my OWN handwriting. It was supposedly faster to write in cursive than it was to print, but I never found that to be the case.
Anything other than personal correspondence is typed anyway - or official forms are required to be PRINTED on.
Sorry - cursive writing is a waste of valuable school time.
Sure, doing arithmetic, reading paper maps and using a physical compass will go by the wayside.
Only for those who dress using Garanimals and push buttons with pictures on the cash register at McDonald’s.
People who read and write cursive will soon be able to communicate in what will look like “code” to many.
The military once sentenced me to live in Ohio. My experiences there made me wonder just how such a state allowed creative sorts such as Wilbur and Orville to actually do something productive. Dayton is presently only slightly behind Detroit as a has-been city.
Ohio is doomed, just as is Detroit, and all of Illinois and California.
Liberalism is a cancer that will consume itself. Let’s hope we can find some states strong enough to resist.
My job requires me to write FAST! All day long. As a result my writing became illegible.
I can no longer write in cursive. I should say, it’s painfully slow and awkward to write in cursive.
That’s retarded, sir!
“Perhaps the greatest example and most compelling reason to teach cursive writing to our students is the fact that it was the form used in so many of America’s Founding documents.”
Flimsy reasoning.
Those documents were mass-printed almost from day one, and they were not reproduced in cursive. Saying that if it isnt part of school, we wont be able to read them is silly. It’s like saying that the Bible not being in Hebrew means that we wont be able to read it. Or if we dont teach people to speak Renaissance English, we wont be able to read Shakespeare.
I know cursive very well, and I STILL can barley read Washington’s sometimes bad handwriting.
Especially when you have to teach all those other more important skills like how not to do math correctly, how not to read correctly, and how not to learn correct moral concepts so that kids can become a correct little commies.
So, how can we expect them to also learn cursive when there is no time left to teach it?
My 5th grade teacher had to get the 4th grade teacher to grade my papers.
heh.
So it cursive is gone, along with the time and effort it takes to learn it, what will replace it? It seems the curriculum for our children gets smaller and smaller. They learn less and less. They are becoming functionally illiterate, unable to do simple math without a calculator, and can’t tell you the century of the Civil War. What do they do all day?
Have you ever witnessed a kid these days trying to tell time on a good old-fashioned clock? It’s painful. If it isn’t digital, they’re lost.
Their printing is atrocious, which is why their cursive is so difficult. They removed the instruction for proper printing years ago.
I tutored in reading, spelling, grammar and math for years - it was amusing to watch them print. So glad I home-schooled.
I think in a way, it has gone by the wayside. Cursive is really just a way to write faster. It is more flowing, more legato than the staccato method of hand printing; and is therefore, faster. However, most people can type or text faster than they can write. I still use cursive on Post-It notes and such; but mainly, I type.
Good riddance. Can anyone read cursive? So many people write unreadable scribbling. Teach printing.
How many historic texts will be like a foreign language? Even ancestry census records?
The public school curriculum is dumbing down at an astonishing rate. We have not come to grips with the fact that there are children who will not or cannot master certain areas or levels of difficulty of learning.
We have told parents that all children are equal, and they are — in the sight of God, but NOT in scholastic abilities. We are still trying to find a way to educate all children so that the outcomes are the same, and that CAN be done. However, equality of outcomes depends on teaching at an exceptionally low level, so that none can fail. It would be far better to encourage each child to conquer basic skills: reading, writing, and arithmetic. Add all the other wonderful subjects and increase the difficulty until the children show clearly that they have reached their maximum: geography, history, government, physics, languages, arts, etc.
As it stands now, we soon will have two Americas (if I may borrow a phrase) consisting of those who have diplomas and those who have diplomas AND an education. Educated children, by the way, WILL be able to read and write cursive. One day you will be able to tell who went to public school by whether or not he can read and write cursive; the private and religious schools do not feel the same pressures to dumb down.
In our city, property taxes are soaring as we build one palatial public school campus after another. The children, though, spend their days preparing to live in their parents’ basements — with little preparation for entry into the world of commerce.
I have no doubt that cursive is important.....but....I am guessing kids in school today can type a lot faster than kids 30 years ago. I would also hazard to guess that typing is more important for most jobs today than proper cursive.
I used to be able to write cursive fairly well but I probably haven’t used it (outside signing something) in 20 years.
Cursive writing developed as a response to the inherent limitations of a technology.
For thousands of years before cursive was briefly the norm, writing individual letters was the standard.
There is a reason why printers immediately reverted to individual letters once the technology was available.
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