They have stopped teaching cursive writting here in Connecticut.
I have asked individual teachers how the future wage earners will be able to sign forms, checks, tax forms,etc.
I was told to teach them cursive writting on my own.
Please don't tell me my great grandchildren will never be able to read the diaries I wrote when I was watching my grandchildren.
The sound of wet grass.
OTOH, Steve Jobs said he took a calligraphy course that he thought was highly influential on his career.
Have the teachers started SCREAMING yet...as they always do when politicians try to block their dumbing down of America.
In before the “That’s racist” choir sings.
I tend to the opinion that learning cursive writing helps develop hand/eye/brain coordination, which can be valuable in ways not necessarily fore-seeable, but useful and desirable nonetheless.
Dat’s retartit.
Oh, dear.
Sure, I learned cursive in school. Then I went to France for a year as an exchange student, and found out that American cursive is so different from French cursive that no one could read what I wrote if I wrote in cursive.
Prior to going to France, I alternated between printing and cursive about evenly. After going to France, I lost whatever cursive skills I had. To this day, decades later, I cannot fluidly write cursive.
I never could read cursive all that well, either.
Except for signing one’s name, there is no real need to write in cursive. Printing works just fine.
I’ll trade no cursive for no islam in schools.
My homeschooled kid is now 28 :) and he learned printing before cursive, ABeka homeschool curriculum now teaches cursive first. Here’s their argument for teaching cursive first: http://www.abeka.com/resources/articles/thebenefitsofteachingcursivefirst.aspx
That being said, my son’s writing has devolved into a scrawled signature which, IMO, is not legible. It does not seem to have impeded his career success in any way.
Handwriting and spelling are wonderful skills, but not necessary for success in the business world today. Spell check and the use of online transactions and conversations have all but eliminated the art of handwriting. I do admire those who have legible and artistic handwriting.
My kid also was an awful “speller” until he was about 11years old. His composition tutor used to say that he was a “creative” speller who could spell the same word, 3 times, on the same page, and each spelling was different and non were correct. His spelling took a complete turn around when he became an avid reader. I think reading can improve spelling because they see the word, spelled correctly, and it passively “teaches” them the correct spelling of the word.
I just hope the teachers are given instructions to help us lefty’s as well.
Allow me to weigh in with a contrary viewpoint. At first, I was “shocked and amazed” that cursive wasn’t being taught in (many) schools. However, on reflection, I think it’s about time that cursive was dropped from the universal, mandatory part of the curriculum.
Cursive made sense, from the era of quill pens, through to the era of ball-point pens. Cursive reduces the number of times that a nib is lifted from, and brought down upon the paper — thus reducing the number of times that an ink blot is likely to be made. Until relatively recently, there were no spaces between written words — people simply wrote whole sentences, without lifting the nib. That speeded up the process of writing with a quill pen, and reduced the ink-blot problem. There’s no ink-blot problem with ball-point pens — and there’s certainly no ink-blot problem with typed text. Therefore, there’s no compelling reason to continue writing in cursive.
As for signatures — students can be taught to scribble out their name in cursive (or a graphic resembling cursive); without having to write everything in cursive. Most people’s signatures bear little resemblance to other cursive writing — and that’s a good thing, from a security point of view.
Anyone interested in perusing historic documents could learn to read cursive in short order.
they better do something before it's "Make yer Mark right here Johnny"“...require students to know how to read and write in cursive. “
It would be an improvement if they’d just know how to read and write in English.
My wife and I were talking about the nephews not being able to write in cursive, she said it will be the new shorthand.
MIL always wrote notes in shorthand when she didn’t want her kids to know what was written down.
Companies need to start giving basic skills assessments again. Many, many years ago they had to because education was so poor, and it is once again poor.
I could care less about a person’s so-called college degrees because even colleges graduate illiterates.
So long hand writing is actually called “cursive”? I never knew that........Go figure, Trayvon’s girlfriend is smarter than me even tho she can’t read it........
When did schools stop teaching cursive writing? I remember 4th grade with a dip fountain pen and a bottle of Shaeffer blue ink. Where have I been? My middle school age granddaughter is teaching herself cursive. And doing OK I might add. Just sent her a pack of disposable fountain pens. She loves them. One person, one fountain pen at a time.