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 ...
Waste of time.
Identify those who promoted the removal of cursive writing in schools and make sure those people are not part of any school administration, not even playground monitor.
They should also teach proper penmanship.
Waste of time? Why? Aren’t you typing on a cursive keyboard like everyone else? LOL.
This sounds like racism!
Have to be able to sign their names to EBT card forms, etc.
People that will never learn to read above a 3rd grade level will never learn to write in cursive.
It has been a mark of idiot public schools policies which forced kids to only learn to write enough script to be able to sign their names.
And those who happened to be missing that day end up signing their names with an X.
Good for Louisiana.
As an adult in this modern world I only write on paper to take quick notes if it’s faster than using an electronic device.
That being said, children need to learn cursive if for any simple reason for teaching discipline...
Will have to remember the next time I need to sign something.
I love writing in cursive. Letters. Diary. Notes in church. All the time.
So do students print their essays or type them on laptops nowadays?
Writing in cursive is a lot faster than printing.
For a lot of students, it’s faster than typing on a keyboard.
And to think, I used Shorthand to take class notes from freshmen in HS, through college years. It’s faster than a keyboard. Being able to take shorthand dictation got me more than one job over the years. It’s a lost art now.
“Are catching up or are we coming back?”
Coming back. Teaching cursive is probably more symbolic than of substance, but what it indicates is that OUR PEOPLE are calling the shots. There is no way a Leftist would ever support this.
“So do students print their essays or type them on laptops nowadays?”
My oldest is in a private high school, and they are required to have laptops in class and everything is typed. The textbooks are all electronic and they highlight pertinent stuff instead of learning to take notes. I don’t like it. His handwriting is atrocious and looks like he is in 5th grade, which is ironically when the school started requiring everything to be done electronically.
My youngest is homeschooled (going to be in 7th grade). I teach him cursive and note taking the way I learned how to do it in college and law school.
Are there any teachers there who know enough about cursive to be able to teach it?
The reason for the push to quit teaching cursive: Many of he Founding Documents of this nation are written in cursive. If a generation of people can’t read them, they can fooled about what the documents actually say.
For example, I have seen the Second Amendment “rewritten” in many different ways. However, people who can read the actual real Second Amendment — even snowflakes — can spot the lies.
PS Not sure if we are catching up or coming back, but either is OK with me...
“Waste of time.”
No, it’s not. Copying an earlier comment I made here:
The reason for the push to quit teaching cursive: Many of he Founding Documents of this nation are written in cursive. If a generation of people can’t read them, they can fooled about what the documents actually say.
For example, I have seen the Second Amendment “rewritten” in many different ways. However, people who can read the actual real Second Amendment — even snowflakes — can spot the lies.
PS Not sure if we are catching up or coming back, but either is OK with me...
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