Posted on 09/22/2020 3:32:45 PM PDT by BruceDeitrickPrice
Gel pens for me.
I think cursive is a useful skill to learn, just out of principle. Some things were a mistake to eliminate and I think eliminating cursive was one of those mistakes.
Asked about it, he replied, “I find that writing clearly is a mere act of will."
OTOH, it’s like the millennial anti-theft device (standard transmission) on a car.
Kids these days can’t read it so if you write in cursive, you might as well be doing a secret code right in front of them.
Because cursive develops the creative mind. The Chinese stopped traditional language.
It is brainwashing. It prepares children’s’ minds for brainwashing
There are multiple versions in plain text available, in books and throughout the internet
And you just KNOW that nobody would ever alter them in any way ever, would they?
Cursive adds another dimension to communication that typing just can’t. It shows personality and emotion, it makes communication more human. Just like electronic communication robs the recipient of gestures, facial expressions, differences in tone and cadence, thereby reducing the true intent of the communication, so does the elimination of slants, angles, curlicues, dots, etc. as are found in cursive writing. BAD IDEA to eliminate it!
One of my students asked me why cursive was important.
My answer was that the Founding Documents of our nation are in cursive, and if you can’t read them, then anyone can tell you anything, and you can’t go back to the source and read it for yourself.
I told her that her basic human rights were enshrined in cursive, so she had better learn how to read it so nobody could tell her otherwise.
OK...I’m a rabble-rouser.
I’m one of the left handed types that loves typing and word processing. The most writing I do is scribble a signature.
Ink would smudge. Couldn’t write on a chalkboard well.
My handwriting is mostly illegible.
I took the last typing class my high school offered in 89.
Word Processing was coming the next year.
I had a very good teacher.
You must have used the old K+E Leroy lettering guide (I’m an engineer and I’m dating myself), as well as H2 and HB drafting leads. Now everything is at least AutoCAD.
I can read cursive, but thanks to a hand injury - as in multiple fractures that had to be surgically reduced) I can no longer write cursive.
I agree!
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Handwriting is a dying art. I was taught cursive in grade school - as an adult, my writing is as illegible as any doctor’s scribbles. Most of us do our writing on keyboards and phone screens. Handwriting is mostly irrelevant. I’m more concerned about a lot of other areas of current schooling.
Really? So math is arithmetic?
Fsstest way to put down thoughts, for original thinkers.
“If you can’t read cursive, you can’t read the Founding Father/historical documents. Today’s K-12 can’t even print correctly.”
EXACTLY!!!
This is what I believe with all my soul.
They have removed this education in Cursive (and true history, etc.) to INTENTIONALLY dumb down and mislead the population.
This year I was very lucky to get my 6 year old daughter into a Private Christian school on very short notice.
And her First Grade teacher is teaching Cursive writing to the students! This is great and my daughter loves her new school and loves to write in cursive. The teacher is great and always available by email or phone if necessary.
This will be the best $6,000 I have ever spent (even though it is hurting us financially).
Push the kids to learn in school and they will shine and excel.
My daughters old friends in this sham Distance Learning will be so far behind next year it will be criminal.
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Where’s spell checker?
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