pretty easy to forge a name that is only printed...OMG! LOL! Hey I say don’t teach them cursive, it will give us ‘old folks’ our own code that will be just as confusing to youths as texting is to us! ;-)
In this day and age typing is a more important skill.
The end of cursive is one of the signs of the end of culture.
Without cursive would you be able to make your signature?
Marshall McLuhan has been heard laughing uproariously.
We were taught to write cursive in Catholic school by the time we were in the Second grade. In some schools, cursive was so beautifully stylized, that one could determine the school you attended and the order of nuns who taught you by examining the style of your handwriting. Alas, with the advent of the digital age, I find that I have rarely hand written anything for many years. As a result, I can now barely write my own signature.
TRUE STORY: I’m a retired teacher who now supplements my income as a Substitute Teacher. I had a class of H.S. Juniors recently. I noticed that, now days, all kids print; no cursive. Long story short: Only 2 students in a class of 20 could come to the board and write their name in cursive. THEY DO NOT TEACH CURSIVE IN SCHOOLS ANYMORE.
That said, keyboarding should be taught in the early grades. Too many kids don't know the keyboard because they haven't been taught it. If they're going to replace cursive with computers, they'd better be proficient at keyboarding.
Perhaps this is tinfoil hat stuff, but I feel that, by eliminating cursive, the “Powers That Be” are eliminating a major form of expressing freedom of thought, thus creating an entire generation of drones who are incapable of rebellion.
Just sayin’.
why teach anything anymore?
All you have to do is teach a child how to operate a calculator and a keyboard, show him how to use google and he can get all the info he needs
That sounds like adapting. Learning cursive is a waste of time.
They stopped teaching our kids cursive this past year.
The last time I needed to write something cursively I gave up because I forgot how. I haven’t regularly done so since the early 1990s.
“But these days little classroom time is spent teaching cursive writing, crowded out of the curriculum by the demands of an increasingly complex world.”
More time for global warming studies I guess
pretty easy to forge a name that is only printed...Cursive writing is an important skill. It really doesn't take that long to teach. Educators today have gotten lazy; quite often they're more interested in their pension benefits than they are in teaching children.
Where will the post office find employees if none of the graduates know cursive? Maybe USPS will require printing? Maybe that’s why I constantly get other people’s mail?
Cursive is for writing with a dip pen on paper. It was adapted for later methods, but functionally it is distorted letterforms to make your ink flow without blotting.
It is no more relevant to today’s common communication than pressing cuneiform into clay.
This from a guy who does calligraphy as a hobby. It just plain is not a lifeskill any more. I haven’t used Parker Method Cursive since 7th grade.
They can use the free time to teach the high school kids how to tell time. My wife, who works in a Massachusetts suburban supermarket, has worked with several who can’t. And forget about making change.