Posted on 07/02/2017 2:03:12 PM PDT by BBell
Louisiana's public school classrooms will be required to teach cursive writing to students starting with the new school year.
That mandate, approved by lawmakers in 2016 but delayed a year so schools could prepare, is among more than two dozen new laws that take effect Saturday (July 1).
(Excerpt) Read more at nola.com ...
I think this is coming back (to good traditional values) and is a good sign. The founding documents were penned in cursive and every American citizen should be able to read and understand them.
Note: I’d initially thought “La.” meant Los Angeles, and did a double take. This is really more of a thing that traditional Louisiana (and not so-called “progressive” California”) would think of.
Sorry, typo: meant “many of THE Founding Documents”...
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My daughter writes beautifully in cursive. My son couldn’t hold a pen/pencil without his hands hurting. School taught him to read cursive but he used a device to write. I was the same way as my son, but there were no electronic devices when I grew up so I failed everything.
To compensate I was the best reader and learned how to mark texbooks to help me with notes.
I for one think this is good. Think about how good it feels to get a hand written note in cursive. There is just something personal and connected about it.
When I learned cursive, I was made to feel that I was learning a grown-up thing, that it was good that I could go beyond mere printing because that was childish.
Guess it would be too much to hope that they also teach the kiddos how to write a thank you note to people and family who give them gifts and do things for them!
anybody can forge a printed name... but it's hard as hell to forge sh!tty handwriting
It is supposed to be good for developing your brain, hand-eye coordination, etc.
Balancing is supposed to be good for increasing capacity to learn math.
Google the latest research on brain plasticity.
My Mother was taught the Palmer method of cursive. She taught it to all of us kids.
They’ll just Tweet or send an email.
Kids would be better off learning to read music than write cursive.
Which means that all these decades they haven’t been teaching children to write, most parents never noticed.
“Asleep” means thinking that the principal “systems” in society were designed and are run by intelligent, well-meaning people. Government schrools, fiat money, Obamacare, etc
We were at a flower shop getting flowers for a funeral, wife had the order written in long hand. The young twit taking the order proudly declared she cannot read cursive and said we’d best print it out for her.
Her co-worker frowned at her, brushed her aside and helped us out. The twit just stood there with a goofy grin on her face.
She had no business working in a place where grieving people come in, the last thing they want is to be told what to do by some stupid person thinking they are smart.
Yup. Some of the most beautiful penmanship I’ve ever seen are in pro se prisoner’s briefs.
I don’t think cursive writing makes much difference to anything.
I concur completely. I have been trying to explain that to my adult daughter and her friends about the importance of cursive reading and writing. Our original historic documents must be able to be read and understood by the people. Not rely on just what someone tells you it says. It is not dumbing down people. It is intentional misleading and controlling. It is enslaving the masses when you make them into idiots of their own history and dependent on others.
Correction: It is not ‘just’ dumbing down people...
Left out the ‘just’!
Tis not a waste of time. Handwriting is excellent for developing small-muscle dexterity and hand-eye coordination.
The largest part of the brain deals with visual perception and information: the eyes. The second-largest deals with the hands.
The brain is, you could say, a handmade organ.
Any reason they can’t do both?
I learned to read music AND write cursive when I was in grade school. Both have paid me back in multiple benefits over the years.
One reason I’m forever grateful that I was able to homeschool our two boys, is that they learned EVERYTHING from 8:00 a.m. to Noon. And had the whole rest of their day to pursue whatever tickled their fancy.
Wrote beautifully. Sang or played piano. And were academically ready for high school by 6th grade.
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