Posted on 09/27/2015 5:35:19 AM PDT by knarf
As a school board director, I have been challenged to challenge my local school to demand the re-instatement of cursive writing
and a PS ... I got this in my FB this morning
That was my thought when I first heard this...... continued dumbing-down of our kids to equal mediocrity and lemming like obedience to “father government.”
Some schools are teaching a hybrid. It looks like the printed alphabet but the letters are connected. It is really an ugly lettering.
I call it dumbed-down cursive, because that is what it looks like.
And the reason they are not teaching cursive is that so many elementary schools have computers now (Apples) that kids spend so much time on a keyboard/touch screen that they don’t have time to practice penmanship.
I had heard the real purpose of failing to teach cursive was so the upcoming generations won’t be able to read the Constitution, DOI, etc., on their own.
Then they’ll be easily manipulated by the Propaganda machine.
I do historic research. And can’t stress it enough.
I remember the controversey and didn’t spend much time in my own thoughts about it ... until this morning.
when that girl in the Trayvon Martin case said she couldn’t read cursive, I thought she was joking.
I taught my kids calligraphy. It’s art, and really improved their handwriting.
I’ve been saying it all along.
Some day Americans will need an approved scholar to tell them what the constitution says.
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Series?
Kids can’t google and read the Constitution on the interweb? Of the Federelist papers?
Cursive is a dead language. I might be in the minority here, but spending the amount of time it takes to learn cursive in a limited curriculum in a keyboard drive world is silly.
The dumbing down of America starts with wasting phenomenal amounts of time learning things of limited value.
Cursive is dead. I helped to kill it by rebelling against it since middle school.
Good riddance.
SEE MY #11 ... SORRY
Yes!! I totally agree. It makes me ill that my kids can’t write/read cursive. I think you’re absolutely right that it is to hinder their ability to read historic documents.
At first, I thought you were some kind of Jesuit lefty teacher ... until I read your home page ....
I suppose the schools didn’t teach me Hebrew and Greek in order to deny me access to a Bible.
Or.
Maybe.
It wasn’t worth the time to do such a thing when it’s easy enough to find a copy of the Bible in a language I can read...
My neighbor’s 25 and 23yo boys can only sign their names in cursive. Their mother had to teach them that AFTER they graduated.
We had this exact conversation just this past Thursday.
Course, they were government educated.
I was taught cursive writing and calligraphy STARTING in the second grade.
Course, I attended private school.
Your value is in the argumentative logic of your language, and for that I thank you ... the rest .... you’d be a pain in the ass.
My home page, if I remember correctly, contains the legal rebuttal I wrote in 2003 about why my speeding ticket violated my Constitutional rights 5 different ways.
I worked. The City Atty postponed the trial until the Statute of Limitations expired.
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