Posted on 09/22/2020 3:32:45 PM PDT by BruceDeitrickPrice
I had a grade school principal tell me that children do not need to know how to do math because they have calculators and that they do not need to know how to spell because they have spellcheckers.
Here are ten reasons to learn cursive:
https://www.memoriapress.com/articles/top-10-reasons-to-learn-cursive/
I’m not seeing the connection between phonics and cursive. Of the two, I think phonics is more important. I had it in the ‘70s and my kids were taught it in combination with very short sight words (the, it, and, etc.)
1931? I was taught phonics in 1963.
Not just cursive. Kids doing online learning from a keyboard have trouble writing with pen or pencil at all.
“I was just about to post your comment about not being able to read reading original documents.”
GMTA ? ?
Very interesting..
Being an engineer, I write in all print caps.
I don’t know if that’s a thing for all engineers, or just the ones I work with.
Because if you can read cursive, you can read the original Constitution, Declaration of Independence, and other things like that and know for sure they are all real.
I am an Engineer, and I print, but NOT in all caps.
Mostly, I type, and not in all caps either.
I haven’t used cursive writing for anything but signing my name in over 45 years. Getting a bit hard to sign my name, too! There are educational standards that have slipped, but I’m not convinced cursive is a useful skill. If it is, why have I been able to go most of my life without it?
Phonics? Math skills? Grammar? Those are very different!
Short answer: They are stupid. The Asians, who have had a continuous civilization for thousands of years and know a few things about the mind, say that writing in cursive helps develops the brain, among other things.
Wow... That’s a nice hand..
Research has shown that cursive writing, just like learning a musical instrument, improves your brain as a whole and doesn’t simply teach you one function.
These same folks who want to stop teaching cursive are often the same ones happy to spend lots of money to make sure that remote, obscure languages don’t go extinct.
I substitute taught in an 8th grade classroom a couple of years ago . . .wrote on the board in what I thought was decent handwriting. A boy stood up and said loudly, “We can’t read cursive!” to which others chimed in and agreed. I asked some teachers later and the student’s weren’t kidding. I subbed later in the elementary level and there they were writing cursive . . .a seemingly change in the curriculum. By the way, the students in that 8th grade class couldn’t print either.
ball point pens are awful to write with. I hate them... fountain pens are worth a try if you haven’t ever written with one.
Apparently our professors of education want exactly this sad outcome.
Paranoid nonsense.
If you want to be taken seriously make a good faith argument.
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