LOL... OUTSTANDING!!!
Posted on 08/22/2016 3:12:22 PM PDT by Cecily
When she was five we started our youngest daughter in a very good public school. We suggested to the staff that she should be started in first grade.
The staff assured us that even though she was advanced she would do quite well in the kindergarten.
Six weeks later they called us and said that they recommended that she be advanced a grade. It seems that she was entertaining the other students in the class during their break times by reading them stories.
Yep!
Is that like zhe and zhey?
My first school was a one-room, eight-grade, single teacher country school. One of our subjects was “Penmanship” wherein we spent page after page making loops, circles and other carefully placed lines. Even now, seventy-five years later, I have better than average handwriting.
My aunt was a few years ahead of me in the same school and the teacher plainly did not like her. On one of her report cards my aunt was given a poor grade for penmanship. My grandfather took issue with it and “spoke” with the teacher.
I had gotten in trouble that day and was being kept after school so I got to witness the festivities. Grandpa was well over six feet tall and had a loud voice. When asked about the reason for the low grade, the teacher said something about ‘holding her pen wrong.’ Grandpa exploded: “I don’t care if she holds her pen with her toes, her writing is more legible than yours!’ Since that was true and the teacher knew it, the offending grade was changed.
It’s posted as a “chat”.
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They said “human” contains “man,” and “person” contains “son,” so we needed to go with “huper.” I guess it didn’t catch on.
We had penmanship. Mine was always terrible. My mom said I would be a great doctor someday. Somehow I survived. Now they don’t even teach it. Swell. Actually, when I DO write, it’s usually an ungodly combination of printing and cursive that somehow turns out to be readable, at least by me.
LOL... OUTSTANDING!!!
“I never even heard the word CURSIVE until my own children were in school.”
Nor did I. It was called Penmanship (or most likely Penpersonship today). We always had cards on the wall above the blackboards that showed all the letters in both upper and lower case. Didn’t help me much. I still have crummy handwriting. I have pretty darn good printing though, which was very helpful in doing blueprint work.
I had never heard of that one. Makes sense.
I got an A in penmanship in 7th grade 1959. When I went to HS we had priests instead of nuns. We couldn’t read their writing and they could read moors enough to hit us if we didn’t get it right. In college we had essay blue book tests and i had to pay attention.
I’ve been pushing a mouse since Mac+ and typing without any typing lessons, as you can tell if you read some of my posts.
Before I die, I will be dictating instead of typing. And people will ask if I was around when people wrote things by hand.
I will look into Spencerian Penmanship.
I am an exceptional calligrapher, but my cursive has always been cursed.
Incidentally, speaking of “shaming”:
Both my Fourth and one of my Seventh grade teachers accused me openly of lying when I submitted lettering artwork as part of an assignment. I remember being speechless in both cases; I was taught by my parents not to question authority. I was a Straight-A student with no history of lying whatsoever. It was particularly painful coming from my favorite teacher in 7th at a “Christian” private school.
In my senior year, I did all of the special lettering for the yearbook by hand in pen and ink - without using any guidelines: A micrometer did not indicate any measurable horizontal deviation in my lines. It was partly a matter of pride, but mainly a way to force my hand-eye coordination to improve.
At university, I read The Chronicles of Narnia. I was struck by Lewis’ logic via the professor: He asked the kids who was historically more honest, Edmund or Lucy. When they admitted it was easily Lucy, he suggested they simply believe her outlandish tale, then muttered something like, what do they teach these kids in school?
I admit that those accusations dampened my enthusiasm for art.
Those teachers had zero reason to doubt me, except that they could not accept my precocity in art. (My older brother, by the bye, was an artistic genius from age five, with considerably more ability than myself.)
Incursive...that’s the four letter words I carved in my desk... Right?
Like you I tend to combine lettering with cursive. Unlike you I am complemented on my handwriting. Being a mechanics draftsman and technical illustrator doesn’t hurt.
At infant school I was taught cursive, with every letter precisely drafted between lines on the page; when I progressed to college we had to set down so much, so fast, that my handwriting morphed into a wizened short-hand that only I could read - and I’ve never been able to shake that off, to my life-long shame.
My reward for this was to be put out into the hall for not following directions. Great teaching, eh?
Maybe. But I was no child prodigy and I learned to write after learning to block print. It was hardly brain surgery. Palmer Method!
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I learned penmanship with a fountain pen. Palmer Method - we had a book. If we dripped ink on our blotter, we were slapped by a nun. They were so mean! My handwriting is pretty bad but when I want to I can make it as clear as day. I pity any American child who cannot read or write the dreaded ‘cursive.’ Let’s face it: it wasn’t brain surgery.
But you wonder, did learning those writing skills, the hand-eye coordination, did it give kids abilities that they no longer have today? It’s a big change.
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