I haven't written anything except my signature in cursive since 1992.
While not really a homeschooling vs. public school or quality of education article, this does touch on a trend that the computer is causing, one that those interested in educational issues will want to be up on. Perhaps handwriting will go the way of the old printing press.
I use cursive for my grocery list.
F7 works regardless of keyboard or cursive.
It's a good thing that she typed this instead of writing it in cursive.
Besides, work in architecture and you'll probably never write in cursive again...or lower case letters for that matter.
I was taught the "Palmer Method' in Catholic school. Now I use cursive at work as code, because most people can't read it.
Seeing the unreadable garbage that most people write, this is no loss.
As well as spelling/typing/editing skills, apparently.
Cursive? What's that?.........a new RAP Style?........
Most people with more than half a brain develop their own cursive style as soon as they get out of elementary school (teachers seem to stop caring after that).
When I see handwriting that's written in perfect "schoolteacher" cursive, I think the writer must be a dull unimaginative person -- just like most public school teachers.
Absolutely useless skill, in my humble opinion - prioritizing style over substance. Most people's attempts at cursive produce an illegible scrawl (as any recipient of a doctor's prescription can testify), and even good cursive can be difficult to read quickly. An ability to write plain, block text clearly is all that's needed. I'd be concerned if my kids were spending time learning cursive when they could be learning math.
But cursive really just means joined. For quick and legible writing, Christopher Jarman created one of the best systems.
A short introduction is available online.
In yesterday's thread, someone said spelling would be next to go.
(Copy-and-paste is our friend.)
Educaton ping.
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There's this wonderful device called a notebook. It needs no batteries and can be transported in a purse, or even in your coat pocket. It never crashes or becomes technologically obsolete. Best of all, you can be equipped with a notebook and pen for under ten dollars. People who haven't tried it don't know what they're missing.
Being left-handed I was never able to master the cursive, nor hand in a pencil written paper that wasn't smudged. I still have ball-point ink from those original ball-point pen inks that never dried on my left hand from dragging across the paper. Naturally I am disappointed at the loss of cursive skills in the general populace. Not.
I've been writing in hand print so long that I can't even remember how to make some letters in cursive. The only thing I ever write in cursive is my autograph, er, signature.
Too bad the spill cheque capacity was lost as well.
My son never really learned cursive writing well and almost never uses it.
People say that I have good looking handwriting, but I can't aspire to the standard set by my father.
My father had beautiful handwriting. Even little notes that he wrote looked like important historical documents. He must have learned this in school, but they don't teach that style any more.