Posted on 09/22/2020 3:32:45 PM PDT by BruceDeitrickPrice
Short answer is that the teachers lack the skill to do cursive themselves.
Longer answer is that they want the education system to be at the lowest common denominator as possible, and wherever possible.
Because it is a vertige of when people used quill pins to write.
Wholly unnecessary since the advent of the modern ballpoint.
If you can’t read cursive, you can’t read the Founding Father/historical documents.
Today’s K-12 can’t even print correctly.
Simple...
Handwriting is evidence of individualism...
Something communists find revolting...
-PJ
“K-12: Why do they hate Cursive so much?”
They might be able to read the original founding documents and see what the Constitution REALLY says. Wouldn’t want that!
Conflating cursive with phonics is disingenuous, at best.
There is no need to read cursive, so why must everyone learn to write it?
I know I often cannot read it, and certainly can no longer write it. This old man is to shaky to make it legible...even to myself.
And everyone learns to read via phonics, whether it’s taught in school or not. It’s universal. And the only real pathway to reading.
Sure you can. They’re all out there in clean, easy to read fonts online. Now if you’re a historian or a museum curator that’s a different story.
Ah the new age of education: Writing in Cursive is bad, cursing while speaking is good.
I survived a master’s in education. Cursive works with the way the hand is most comfortable writing. The lack of cursive is one reason so many students hated writing. And the technogeeks would hae us all hooked to keyboards (carpel tunnel anyone?) and incapable of communicating in depth without them.
Don’t get me started on print vs. digital comprehension. There’s a reason most people get information digitally and meaning by having to print things out.
“If you can’t read cursive, you can’t read the Founding Father/historical documents.”
There are multiple versions in plain text available, in books and throughout the internet.
My parents both learned Gregg shorthand in college. It was a required course in many majors. They used to write each other notes when they didn’t want us to know what they were saying. I will probably be able to do the same thing with cursive if I don’t want my grandkids to know what I am saying.
I wonder how many children of the 1% know how to write cursive?
It must be racist and misogynistic - that’s the answer to everything.
Bump
I agree, I’d rather my child learn to use a Word program at an early age. Learning cursive’s like training a kid to make buggy whips, or a city kid how to shoe a horse.
Remember the Trayvon Martin/Zimmerman case. The counterfeit witness Raechel Jeantel testified that she could not read cursive.
Proof positive of racism right there!!!!
I was just about to post your comment about not being able to read reading original documents. Besides cursive enhances the brain. https://naturalsociety.com/how-cursive-writing-affects-brain-development/Also, they are not teaching students correct printing skills so therefore THEY CANNOT EVEN BEGIN to write in cursive. I’ve witnessed it firsthand in various classrooms.
If you cannot write in cursive, how can you sign your name to any type of document?
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