That's retarted, Sir.
Posted on 11/14/2013 9:22:13 PM PST by Olog-hai
The swirling lines from Linden Bateman’s pen have been conscripted into a national fight to keep cursive writing in American classrooms.
Cursive. Penmanship. Handwriting.
In years gone by, it helped distinguish the literate from the illiterate.
But now, in the digital age, people are increasingly communicating by computer and smartphone. No handwritten signature necessary.
Call it a sign of the times. When the new Common Core educational standards were crafted, penmanship classes were dropped. But at least seven of the 45 states that adopted the standards are fighting to restore the cursive instruction. …
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like they wood know what cuke is
That's retarted, Sir.
I have to answer this one with an emphatic maybe.
Hey, you have a calculator—no need to learn multiplication tables, right? You have Siri and a speech to text feature on your tablet/phone/computer, who needs the alphabet? You have wikipedia, no need for history, literature or any of that old crap, right?
Think of the money we’ll save!
Adults unable to write cursive might think back to the experiences of Jacob Lew when President Barack Obama nominated him as treasury secretary in 2013.Products of education debasement. Harvard particularly.
As treasury secretary, Lew’s signature would be on U.S. currency. But that signature looked more like a series of loops than the distinct letters in his name.
“Jack assured me that he is going to work to make at least one letter legible in order not to debase our currency,” the president joked at the time. …
You’d have to be obsessive to ask that a SIGNATURE be legible.
No! There’s enough cursing in schools already!
What...? Oh, never mind....
E. Litella
How does one sign a document without cursive?
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“That’s retarted, Sir.”
Ah, the lovely Miss Rachel Jenteal. Oh how I miss that Ton of Fun!
"WHY OH WHY DOESN'T IT HAVE SPEECH TO TEXT????"
Tell that to your typical doctor
Teacher said it was dropped from the standard curriculum but they are teaching it anyway.
When issues like this come up I'm surprised so many parents seem so totally unaware of what's going or even think about what's going on with their kids schooling.
Its easy to blame the teachers but it seems to me we have had a generation or two of parents just don't give a damn and view school as nothing more than a state supported baby sitter... Conservatives can call for home schooling or charter schools or whatever but if the parents don't care it makes no difference.. Of course those that do care are not the problem..like so much in today's America
If we knew everything about the development of the brain, we might have a definitive answer. Reading about new development, supports my opinion that cursive along with access to art and music should be required.
I doubt video games and computer usage support the same development as cursive.
LOL - I almost make a comment about making one’s “mark”.
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