Imagine the what our government will do when no one can translate the constitution
I had not considered this but the fostering the inability to read “historical documents in their original form” may have been a goal of the people who managed to quash the use of cursive in government schools.
Jeantel is deeply saddened
My homeschool kids are certainly learning how to write cursive. It never occurred to me that public school kids didn’t know how.
Can’t read cursive, but can hear grass!
It is stupid to make laws requiring cursive.
Being left-handed, teachers screwed me up and I never have been good at it, but now after decades of typing I really have to concentrate on it when I have to sign something.
Kids 100 years ago knew how to ride horses but we didn’t pass laws forcing them to keep doing so after cars came along.
The federal gummint requiring anything in schools is stupid.
When I was in 8th grade, I had a science teacher who used to write copious notes for us on several blackboards. He wrote in all caps — big and little caps.
I loved his class, and really admired him as a teacher. So naturally, I decided to emulate his writing (which I thought looked really cool) — so much that I decided to abandon cursive altogether. From then on, I have written (i.e printed) exclusively in big and little caps.
And you know what? I sign documents all the time. In the 50 years since I started writing this way, no one (including the effing IRS) has questioned the validity of my signature. Not ever.
I’m all for making sure our kids can read the Constitution, but there are enough printed versions of it available that if they never read it in cursive, it really wouldn’t be a big deal.
I haven’t written in cursive in 50 years.
A third grade teacher in public school told me that the time formerly used for learning cursive is now taken up by the preparation for state-mandated testing.
Typing replaced it.
I am a writer and have found that my writing is more creative when employing cursive. For logical reasoning and restructuring a document, using a computer is more efficient for me. However, if I want to put forth my most original, nuanced ideas I have to use cursive.
Here’s an article that points to research that indicates, when compared with typing, writing by hand triggers different parts of the brain:
http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052748704631504575531932754922518?mg=reno64-wsj&url=http%3A%2F%2Fonline.wsj.com%2Farticle%2FSB10001424052748704631504575531932754922518.html
Isn’t writing in cursive a lot faster than printing? That’s what I always think anyway.
When the power goes out, only those that have a command of language will know how to continue.
Maybe this will lead to a possible thinning out of the herd, since they won’t be able to ‘internet search engine name’ anything, and when they are handed a piece of paper to read, go to the wrong location and ......
(you write the rest of that story for yourself!
We should make sure kids keep learning things that are archaic and has no value to them. Maybe we can also have all kids learn how to shoe a horse or re-thatch a roof.