Posted on 08/22/2016 3:12:22 PM PDT by Cecily
A seven-year-old student was reprimanded for writing her name in cursive.
Alyssa, who was only identified by her first name, turned in a homework assignment that focused on vowels.
In return, her teacher wrote in red pen at the top of her lesson sheet: 'Stop writing your name in cursive. You have had several warnings.'
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You’re right on last weekend’s article, but the NYT was “for it before they were against it”. From June:
and the “anti”:
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/21/opinion/handwriting-just-doesnt-matter.html
My parents sent me to a catholic school. In 2nd Grade, maybe 1970, this nasty of bat of a nun had us drawing pictures of fruit for the Art Fair.
She saw my apple and told me it needed to be round. Mine was narrow at the bottom and wide on top, just like the Red Delicious apples my mom always bought.
She wanted symmetrical round and tore up my drawing. A little while later, she came by to inspect my round apple and it was narrow at the bottom and wide on top, just like the Red Delicious apples my mom bought. Apparently the old bat had never seen a Red Delicious apple that is narrow at the bottom and wide at the top. As I recall, I even offered to bring one in. Tore up, draw again.
Long story short, there were 32 students in class and 31 pictures of round, symmetrical red apples on the wall. My mom agreed with me because she bought red delicious apples that were narrow at the bottom and wide at the top.
I always was a little troublemaker.
Ha! When I was in grade school, circa 1960, I couldn't get past the "loops" exercise. It was my observation that "the girls" or at least some of them, could do this perfectly. I could only produce a mangled Slinky. So, it was all hopeless to me, and I abandoned cursive writing in 6th or 7th grade, in favor of rapid-fire printing. IIRC, it was my sixth grade teacher who caught me doing this, and asked me to continue my demonstration. She was satisfied that I could keep pace, and let me be.
That’s IT!! Penshaming. Because they learn cursive in 2nd and 3rd grade, and the girl beat them to the punch. And the TEACHER thinks she should be the one to teach it. Homeschool.
I am happy if my students have their name on their paper.
Did either of the teachers ever apologize to you?
“Punishing a child who read ahead because”...
OH yeah!
Had a couple of those.
Can’t be harming the self esteem of her little classmates.
Nope, not me. I was trying to be funny. I take it you did not like the company you worked for.
I don’t see the outrage. I can remember numerous teachers instructing us to “print your name and the date in the upper right hand corner.” Not doing so is failure to follow instructions.
I still remember my first grade teacher telling me to stop reading ahead in the reading book. My mother was an elementary school teacher and we had a copy of the reading book at home, so I just read it at home instead.
In 3rd Grade I was reprimanded for getting ahead of the class. We were going to read a long book and I had already read it. When class was let out, I was asked by the teacher to remain to speak to me. I thought I was going to be praised for my work but she instead reprimanded me for going far ahead of everyone. She didn't yell at me or berate me but her tone was hostile and icy.
She lectured me for about 5 minutes how other kids who couldn't perform as well were at risk of having their self-esteem brought down how its not fair to the other class mates that I out perform them and reflects badly on the class. I MEAN REALLY?! Do a good job, study hard and its bad!?
I was threatened with loss of recess if I did it again. Sadly I didn't.
Matter of fact when I think of it, half the class performed far below par. Couldn't read, couldn't do anything right. Its one of those moments I became self aware of how bad things were under liberalism.
Its another example of the failure of public school.
Back in the day, kids who didn't perform well no matter how hard they tried were rebuked often in full view of the class and made to sit in the corner with a dunce cap. They didn't have time for kids who couldn't keep up or if they were really bad they were put in a class for backward children.
Nowadays, its the opposite. These same kids who are no good are praised, soothed and we say "Oh well! They did their best!" That wasn't good enough then. Now its those who out perform and excel who have to wear the cap and get scorched.
Its deliberate. They're undermining America's future on purpose to put the imbeciles and Jug Heads ahead of the geniuses and those that excel.
It has nothing to do with instructions. It has to do with the teacher. The teacher fears the fact that some students are better than others.
If you can't figure out why think about it some more.
When I worked as a teacher (tutor), my experience suggested that cursive, the fine motor control and discipline required to learn it, and the visual recognition skills necessary to read it, stimulated the same parts of the brain which enabled abstract thinking. Maybe that is why it is discouraged these days.
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Good possibility. Wasn’t Steve Jobs obsessed with calligraphy? That would make your point about fine hand/eye motor control being connected to brain development and abstract thinking.
I was one who was rapped on the hand with a ruler for reading to the end of the book in reading circle in first grade (the little girl next to me informed the teacher of my great transgression). My first grade “teacher” was so very insightful that instead of thinking, “this child can already read easily at the first grade level, what can I do to direct her reading skills to the next level?,” she punished me for finishing a book too quickly.
Like yours, another great moment in teaching.
ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. First grade. Miss Cenci.
The first day, you sat in a circle and read some passages. Your clever teacher put you in a *reading group* ...either you were a *cardinal*, a *Bluebird*, or a *Canary*.
By day 2....EVERYONE knew the Cardinals were the best readers, and so on. LOL
And your parents did NOT question, that their *snowflake* was feeling bad that s/he was a Canary.
One girl, could not keep in her seat for very long. There was no alphabet name for her problem. Miss Cenci used my jump rope, and tied the little girl to her chair. I felt sorry for the girl; she kept raising her hand, and the teacher ignored her; the girl peed her pants, she must have been asking to go to the bathroom. Miss Cenci was unphased. We were terrified of her. Guess what? We survived.
I had to teach my children how to read and write. I also had to teach them to memorize their basic math facts. All this was totally missing from their elementary school. And we lived in a high end area outside of Boston.
I feel sorry for children whose parents are not paying close attention. A lot of parents blame the child at the incompetent teachers’ direction, for failure. I know one family, both parents full time working professionals and wealthy, who figured out when their two children who were in the seventh and eighth grades, they could not read. Talk about flipping out!
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