About time.
Fifty years ago, while we were in elementary school, we were graded for ‘penmanship’.
Ask a young’un today , and they won’t have any idea what that means... they will think it is a secret cheat code for the XBOX games.
Actually the fastest way to take notes is to take joint notes using a program like MS OneNote.
“Racist”. I’m first!
This is the best news I have heard all year!!!!!
recently a friends college freshman son celebrated his first birthday away from the family nest so she asked friends to birthday card bomb him.
i sent him a card and a Chick Fil A gift card and a few weeks later a card shows up in the mail that i thought was from a kid. sloppy, lettering that looked like something i would expect from a 2nd grader. i open the card up and sure enough, it was all printed out looking ridiculously hideous for a college student.
Will schools teach kids to use an abacus and slide rule next?
Oh too bad. That was going to be our secret code writing.
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.
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.
Cursive writing is coming back? That’s great, too bad cursive language has supplanted it in recent years.
If they’re going to go ‘round talking cursive, they may as well be able to write it.
It’s not how one writes, but how one thinks that matter....
And yes, I think in cursive terms and undertones
I think teaching cursive to children is very important for development. It teaches patience, hand eye coordination, and develops new neural pathways in the brain
The absence of cursive writing would not be so bad if those who “printed” knew the difference between upper and lowercase letters.