the principal, the so called teacher and i would be having a lil chat...
Posted on 08/22/2016 3:12:22 PM PDT by Cecily
A seven-year-old student was reprimanded for writing her name in cursive.
Alyssa, who was only identified by her first name, turned in a homework assignment that focused on vowels.
In return, her teacher wrote in red pen at the top of her lesson sheet: 'Stop writing your name in cursive. You have had several warnings.'
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OK. It would seem to me that printing is very, very slow. Which makes me wonder why the kid at my technical college today (I’m taking a degree in culinary arts) was so nice but so slow in writing up instructions for me to print out my schedule. She was writing in block letters like a child!
How old are you? I’m a south paw and while writing cursive is difficult (as is block writing) because one musses up the page, I was never humiliated in class. And I was taught by the nasty Sisters of Mercy!
I understand. You are a true man of extinction.
“which we used to call HANDWRITING”
That’s exactly what it was called when I was learning it (back in the covered wagon days, evidently). I never even heard the word CURSIVE until my own children were in school. How times have changed.
Anyone remember the early 1960s typewriters that had cursive font? It looked real nice.
This is what you need for each student:
And the five copy books: https://www.amazon.com/Spencerian-Copybooks-without-Theory-Penmanship/dp/0880620951/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1471908138&sr=1-1&keywords=spencerian+penmanship
And these are good pens to start with:
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This is the libtard version of equality of opportunity. Destroy or hamper the highly intelligent, the strong, and the beautiful to make them equal to the stupid, the weak and the ugly.
So, you simply tell your kid that every report they turn in will from now on be written in cursive and if the teacher does not like it, too bad.
Did you by chance used to work for me?
That’s what they want. The anti Trump sentiment is partly based on hatred of success and competitiveness. Which is part of the current anti American thing
it sounds like conspiracy theory but then how else can anyone explain the anti cursive writing push. And it’s there. I taught English in a supposed good school. The kids acted like I was lighting up a cigarette when I wrote in cursive. But it’s the only way to get quick ideas out
My older sister and I have beautiful cursive handwriting and we have both received many compliments over the years. (Trying not to brag). We actually had the same third grade teacher who taught us handwriting in the early 60's. She was a taskmaster and I am so glad she was! Thank you Miss Coffman at Lincoln Elementary School!
TY! I homeschool my younger kid and will try to incorporate this into the curriculum.
the principal, the so called teacher and i would be having a lil chat...
Did I work for you? If you were a closet homosexual running a print shop in a Southern IL town, then maybe (Not being mean. That is the truth.).
Ha! I had forgotten all about that Jabba the Hutt lookin’ mess!
heh. Penmanshaming. PenPERSONshaming!
What ever happened to the word “huper” they were trying out?
LOL don’t forget to teach their teachers.
They generally just make their X.
When I worked as a teacher (tutor), my experience suggested that cursive, the fine motor control and discipline required to learn it, and the visual recognition skills necessary to read it, stimulated the same parts of the brain which enabled abstract thinking. Maybe that is why it is discouraged these days.
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