Posted on 03/05/2017 8:55:48 PM PST by nickcarraway
Alabama and Louisiana passed laws in 2016 mandating cursive proficiency in public schools
Cursive writing is looping back into style in schools across the country after a generation of students raised on keyboarding, texting and printing out letters longhand.
Alabama and Louisiana passed laws in 2016 mandating cursive proficiency in public schools, the latest of 14 states to require cursive. And last fall, the 1.1 million-student New York City school system encouraged teaching cursive to students in the third grade.
Penmanship proponents contend writing words in a single line is just a faster way of taking notes. Others say students should be able to understand cursive documents. And research suggests cursive helps students master spelling and sentence construction because they don't have to think as much about forming letters.
We paid good money so that he would not know how to do cursive as an adult.
Years ago, one of the marks of an educated person was beautiful penmanship.
Oh too bad. That was going to be our secret code writing.
I write almost exclusively in cursive, almost every day. This included notes and orders at the hospital until we went to electronic orders 3 years ago.
Actually, you could always tell a kid from a private school because they hadn’t had to learn cursive.
Unless you are a doctor.
I can remember my 6th grade teacher circa 1980 telling me that writing in manuscript in pencil would get me laughed at as an adult.
Of course, 4 years earlier, in 2nd grade, I was told using the English common measuring system instead of metric would get me laughed at as an adult.
Turns out, the world turned and didn’t leave me behind; it left those teachers in the dustheap of my personal history.
When doctors get older and have short-term-memory loss, they have no idea what they’ve written.
Cursive is nice. Now if they can only teach them to spell and compose sentences, paragraphs in logical order.
Other than writing my name, I have not had to use cursive writing for the last 20 years.
Back in the day of high school secretarial classes we took Gregg shorthand. I still have my certificate attesting to my proficiency which I received some 60 years ago. Find myself still writing notes in shorthand on occasion. Was a great skill to have, not only when I worked for people who dictated a lot, but also when I returned to college and could take really expansive notes during lecture classes.
Cursive writing is coming back? That’s great, too bad cursive language has supplanted it in recent years.
Ms. Manners wants to know - Have you not written a thank you note or any kind of letter to someone in twenty years?
Yes. I typed them.
Dead. No one writes in cursive; mostly it’s used for signatures only.
Even my shopping lists or to do notes are on devices now. Why write?
If they’re going to go ‘round talking cursive, they may as well be able to write it.
Whaaatttt? That's a mighty tall order to expect from kids entering their class with a reading score 3 grades lower, who are pushed along via social promotion after failing dumbed-down classes.
I was wondering why so many FReepers were misspelling so many words :p
I was also educated by Notre Dame nuns. When I was in 4th grade I had to skip recess to work on my cursive writing.
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