Posted on 09/23/2013 1:07:21 PM PDT by Clintons-B-Gone
When it comes to the matter of educating children, the state of Ohio and the federal government are run by a host of blithering idiots.
It was over a year ago that I learned the state of Ohio will no longer be teaching cursive writing in their classrooms.
Upon first learning of the announcement, I foolishly believed that the state’s educators might eventually return to their collective senses and re-institute the teaching of this critical skill.
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Casualty? I beg to differ.
My penmanship was always so poor, that I couldn’t read my OWN handwriting. It was supposedly faster to write in cursive than it was to print, but I never found that to be the case.
Anything other than personal correspondence is typed anyway - or official forms are required to be PRINTED on.
Sorry - cursive writing is a waste of valuable school time.
Sure, doing arithmetic, reading paper maps and using a physical compass will go by the wayside.
Only for those who dress using Garanimals and push buttons with pictures on the cash register at McDonald’s.
People who read and write cursive will soon be able to communicate in what will look like “code” to many.
The military once sentenced me to live in Ohio. My experiences there made me wonder just how such a state allowed creative sorts such as Wilbur and Orville to actually do something productive. Dayton is presently only slightly behind Detroit as a has-been city.
Ohio is doomed, just as is Detroit, and all of Illinois and California.
Liberalism is a cancer that will consume itself. Let’s hope we can find some states strong enough to resist.
My job requires me to write FAST! All day long. As a result my writing became illegible.
I can no longer write in cursive. I should say, it’s painfully slow and awkward to write in cursive.
That’s retarded, sir!
A lady in front me in line at the grocery store was writing a check [that in itself odd as everyone uses a credit card] ... but her writing was so sloooooooow it was fascinating.
After watching, I finally took all of my stuff off the conveyor belt and went to another line.
The nerve!
“Perhaps the greatest example and most compelling reason to teach cursive writing to our students is the fact that it was the form used in so many of America’s Founding documents.”
Flimsy reasoning.
Those documents were mass-printed almost from day one, and they were not reproduced in cursive. Saying that if it isnt part of school, we wont be able to read them is silly. It’s like saying that the Bible not being in Hebrew means that we wont be able to read it. Or if we dont teach people to speak Renaissance English, we wont be able to read Shakespeare.
I know cursive very well, and I STILL can barley read Washington’s sometimes bad handwriting.
Especially when you have to teach all those other more important skills like how not to do math correctly, how not to read correctly, and how not to learn correct moral concepts so that kids can become a correct little commies.
So, how can we expect them to also learn cursive when there is no time left to teach it?
Civics, spelling, sentence structure, etc. The list goes on.
Revisionist history, diversity, inclusiveness, and self-esteem are the sacred cows of today’s “education”. Oh, and of course, human sexuality.
I’m glad most of my old teachers aren’t alive to see what has happened. It would surely kill them.
My 5th grade teacher had to get the 4th grade teacher to grade my papers.
heh.
So it cursive is gone, along with the time and effort it takes to learn it, what will replace it? It seems the curriculum for our children gets smaller and smaller. They learn less and less. They are becoming functionally illiterate, unable to do simple math without a calculator, and can’t tell you the century of the Civil War. What do they do all day?
My penmanship was always so poor, that I couldn’t read my OWN handwriting.
Sorry - cursive writing is a waste of valuable school time.
That's like saying my singing is so bad, we should ban singing altogether.
Have you ever witnessed a kid these days trying to tell time on a good old-fashioned clock? It’s painful. If it isn’t digital, they’re lost.
Their printing is atrocious, which is why their cursive is so difficult. They removed the instruction for proper printing years ago.
I tutored in reading, spelling, grammar and math for years - it was amusing to watch them print. So glad I home-schooled.
I think in a way, it has gone by the wayside. Cursive is really just a way to write faster. It is more flowing, more legato than the staccato method of hand printing; and is therefore, faster. However, most people can type or text faster than they can write. I still use cursive on Post-It notes and such; but mainly, I type.
Good riddance. Can anyone read cursive? So many people write unreadable scribbling. Teach printing.
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