In the days of cursive communication my mother used to say that your penmanship was the first impression you would often make on a person.
I’m kind of embarrassed to admit that I’ve basically lost the ability to write in “cursive”.Of course I still have a fairly nice signature but that’s it.And yes,my ability to *read* cursive is still very much intact.
Cursive is an oppressive tool of the white man.
I was in grade school when Nixon was president and was told by the teacher that Nixon said that you could not take the pencil off the paper when writing in cursive. Does any one remember this or was this bs?
dats ol skool...
I had a mortal enemy in the form of my 3rd grade teacher who humiliated me via my messy cursive writing in front of peers. I dreaded the day of the parent-teacher conferences, because I knew this teacher flat out hated my guts, and the feeling was mutual. But to my great surprise and relief, this time my mom sat me down and read me the riot act for all the stuff I deserved it for, but then said that she believed me about the teacher being a bitch (or words that conveyed that sentiment) and that I was to work extra hard and blah blah, but that I would not not be forced to learn to write with my right hand like the teacher demanded, and I would not be punished or disciplined for my cursive skills (or lack thereof)
So while I’d be happy to see cursive go, personally, I think I hate the idea of Common Core even more than that teacher, and the sooner we abolish the Dept. of Education and put education in the hands of local school boards and parents, the better.
Why write in cursive when I can speak cursive.
The 6 foot tall 200 lb. School Sisters of Notre Dame nun that was my second grade teacher would be appalled by this development.
I caught a high velocity yardstick across the knuckles on day 1 and my cursive writing has been impeccable ever since.
Next article will be about the importance of maintaining our butter churning skills.
I hardly write with paper at all now. I have no pen on my desk, searching for one just a few times a year. It’s not just cursive that’s dying, it’s writing by hand period.
The last great hope for cursive was, to nobody’s awareness, the Apple Newton. One interacted via stylus (no virtual keyboard) and the most effective way to enter words was cursive handwriting. Alas, that device died, and the last compelling mundane reason to use a flowing script vanished.
Cursive won’t die, it will merely move from the english department to the history department.
Typing and boolean algebra are both far more important skills today and need to be taught starting in first grade.
The best thing I ever did and the best advice my mother ever gave me was to take a typing class in high school.
Manual typewriter, return arm and all, but the skills remain and have served me well.
I think it’s foolish. I must be ol’ skul.
Cursive is a form of racial oppression and class distinction!
No justice! No peace!
Cursive, or as us creepy ass crackers call it, “code words”.