Posted on 09/22/2020 3:32:45 PM PDT by BruceDeitrickPrice
Penmanship develops patience and tenacity. Also an appreciation for one’s own writing style, such as how one chooses to cross a ‘t’ or loop a ‘q’. Good penmanship is a thing of quiet beauty. And then there’s chickenscratch...which is not.
“By the way, the students in that 8th grade class couldn’t print either.”
Our educational system has permanently handicapped multitudes with their teaching fads and stupidity.
Oops. . .make that students weren’t kidding. . .I hate boo boo’s like that.
So children will never be able to read our founding documents etc.
Cursive writing has long been associated with the elites.
To be ‘Lettered,’ was considered important. It didn’t just mean to have book knowledge in general...it included the ability to write the thoughts, meanings, and intentions out in a coherent manner.
I am aware of various keystrokes (caps?) that can be ordered to replace what comes with the normal keyboard. It’d be a wonderful idea for a school system to order Cursive caps to replace the Print caps. The students have to learn Cursive. Having to ability to recognize it on the keyboard would bring them a step closer to being able to write Cursive as they’d be familiar with its form.
My fingers tend to lock up as I write with Cursive, simply due to aging. I will often rotate in letters between Cursive and Print. When my mother was alive she would get a kick out of my letters because not only would they go from Cursive to Print back to Cursive, the direction of the slant would be changing as well merely depending on my thoughts.
LOL
It must be racist and misogynistic -
FWIW our local public school still teaches cursive although there are a few kids who seem to slip by. Cursive, besides being a characteristic of individualism—one’s handwriting is pretty much unique—also allows rapid writing, like in taking notes during class. Do college students still take notes?
I’ve heard people say that if kids can’t read cursive they can’t read the Constitution so wouldn’t surprise me that the lefties running schools don’t teach it. Both my boys learned cursive and print at the same time. It’s one of the reasons I liked Abeka curriculum at an early age. I also stuck with Abeka history throughout high school.
I bet they can read it if they Google US Constitution. How many people read the constitution for the first time in the original script, or did they read it for the first time like I did in a junior high civics textbook.
I have thought for a while that people are being unlearned all over
We’ll go back to people making their mark. Cursive will become hieroglyphics.
Because I can’t draw.
They don’t even teach typing anymore.
With the advent of computers, kids teach themselves to type before they go to school. Word programs automatically center and set margins.
There are MANY legal documents a person might have to sign in their adult lifetimes....
NONE of which will accept a printed name.
This will backfire.
There are a number of texts in cursive, though. The gilded edges on old books were turned toward the sun in order to preserve the bindings. Many libraries of older books didn’t know what all the libraries had.
A small curio shop in Madrid, for instance, had a book whose pages were being used one by on as toilet paper. It turned out that the book was one of Phillip II’s records from back in the planning of the Armada. The owner couldn’t read the book, and voila.
Founding documents for us in one sense goes back beyond the Magna Carta. My two cents.
my sons all learned cursive - it was a great help when others who blew it off as a waste of time needed to be shown how to sign their names for SATs
To me, cursive is kinda like learning an “art”....
We have a 1721 edition of the Magna Carta. .there is handwriting on a flyleaf that I cannot read...in old English I guess
I remember taking phonics and cursive in grade school. This was the sixties.
I got away from cursive when I dove into the digital world and did more typing than writing.
My handwriting subsequently degraded. And now, with an electronic pencil, I’m starting to get back into writing, in cursive.
It’s crazy world.
When I hit Engineering school, in the first lecture I took notes in cursive - and when I got home I couldn’t read them at all!!What was I to do? My only recourse was to print all my notes. I use cursive pretty much exclusively for my signature. But I don’t use ALL CAPS.
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