Posted on 02/01/2017 7:15:16 PM PST by BackRoads775
State Sen. Don Gustavson is using history as his guide as he again attempts to require Nevada students to learn cursive handwriting by the end of third grade.
Gustavson, R-Sparks, has even included the Founding Fathers in his cursive cause, which began with the 2015 legislative session and continued last week when he filed essentially the same bill draft that previously died in committee. This time around, he believes testimony from history and education experts will propel SB86 into law.
“All of our original founding documents and letters from our Founding Fathers were almost all done in cursive writing,” Gustavson said. “I want our citizens to be able to read both cursive writing and printing.”
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“And add sentence diagramming. Unless you understand the structure of your native language, you will not use it correctly or properly understand any foreign language.”
Completely correct! Alas, I don’t think that’s been taught for two generations. If it were, even the bare basics, you wouldn’t hear coming up with wrong sentences trying to sound smart, such as, “Jim sent his regards to Steve and I.”
> That’s not the point It’s a discipline
That was once one of the justifications for requiring Latin and Greek too. I have nothing against acquiring discipline, but prefer that it be acquired studying something more useful (not that individuals won’t wish to pursue other subjects — I chose to study Latin and acquire a smattering of Greek myself).
With indelible pencil too.
Mine too and cursive writing is a waste of time. If you want script there is an app for that. Typing was the big deal for years then speech to text got really good and people still use their thumbs over that.
What we could really use is a phonetic alphabet, so talking to people and computers would make sense, so would writing.
Where in the diagram does the “like” and “ya’know” go?
If we teach them cursive then we won’t have a way to communicate secretly with each other.... :0)
Yes. That’s pretty much the entire point of it.
I love the incorrect use of pronouns. “Jennifer waved to him and I.”
This will help weed out the public education teachers who can neither learn nor teach, and that is what needs to happen.
Education majors are usually just communist puppets, the bottom of the barrel in IQ, SAT scores, and reasoning and teaching ability.
Same thing drives me nutty—AND THE NEWS REPORTERS ARE THE WORST! Contrived combinations of tenses, incorrect pronouns, and made-up words using “-ality” or a variety of suffixes makes them feel intellectually superior.
On the line after "whatever"....
Horses too.
It is the point.
There are disciplines that are still relevant that could be taught instead using the same precious time.
The following article outlines why cursive is important other than simply to replace printing:
http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2016/12/why_the_education_establishment_hates_cursive.html
Bart Simpson: “You mean like hell and damn?”
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