That’s retarded, sir!
I was told if I wrote cursive words I would get in trouble. I couldn’t say them either. The Catholic kids couldn’t say them either. But I have always had a little trouble hearing. It made learning phonics problematic.
Besides writing, I also had to teach my granddaughter her multiplication tables.
Big deal you say?? It makes the wheels turn in your head...good for you.
Canada Ping!
Big believer in cursive writing here. My kids (now teens) still complain when I insist they write in cursive. My argument is that cursive is quicker (just like “shorthand”), and sometimes you need to write quickly but neatly, such as in taking class notes. And, if you write in cursive, you’ll know how to read cursive, too.
And then there’s your signature. Sitting at the bank and opening their first accounts showed them why signing in cursive is important.
FYI - in case this might be of interest to you.
RACISM!
I never was very good at cursive writing. I never used it for note taking in college. For decades the only thing for which I use cursive is my signature.
Latin cursive!
Ir’a an old observation, but one wonders whether there is a class in medical school in which they teach the future doctors to write illegibly.
After eight years of 1960's elementary school cursive drills. my writing was still a barely legible scrawl.
My intelligence and work ethic was good enough to earn me a four-year college scholarship, and my fine motor skills good enough for me to build prizewinning model planes, so I don't think it was me. It was the cursive.
Far better for me is Getty-Dubay italic writing, which I taught myself from the books at the link and to which I have referred several others with success.
I never understood why they didn’t teach some sort of universal shorthand instead of cursive. Cursive is faster than printing, but if that’s the point why not teach something that’s waaay faster than both?
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