Ok, what’s with the cursive problem (which we used to call HANDWRITING)?? The New York Times had an article this weekend on its evils. I couldn’t go through all their stupid explanations but something tells me this is more dumbing-down for the coming revolution. (Which may make Mao’s look like a picnic in St. James Park.)
Cursive writing is what is recommended for morning writing. Creative writing. It is the way the mind is very able to communicate ideas
“which we used to call HANDWRITING”
That’s exactly what it was called when I was learning it (back in the covered wagon days, evidently). I never even heard the word CURSIVE until my own children were in school. How times have changed.
My older sister and I have beautiful cursive handwriting and we have both received many compliments over the years. (Trying not to brag). We actually had the same third grade teacher who taught us handwriting in the early 60's. She was a taskmaster and I am so glad she was! Thank you Miss Coffman at Lincoln Elementary School!
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.
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