Posted on 09/27/2015 5:35:19 AM PDT by knarf
Texting on a flip phone which I had until last year is near impossible. It is a little bit easier on my new phone but I would rather just call than text. I am old dammit, what do you want from me???
Tee hee! Just kidding...... ; ).
A signature which means something is cursive, So now we print and when you kill that all you have to remember is the X.
Not sure I agree at all. Frankly, I don’t thing the schools need to bring the computer into the schools until high school.
Just MHO.
My kids have penmanship every day. They love it. It’s helped with hand/eye coordination as well. And they’re just as good on the keyboard and ipad as any other kids their age. Then again we homeschool so we don’t waste hours each day with silly administrative games.
All these “charter” schools and “magnet” schools and “vouchers”, yet, Jane and Johnny still can’t read or write.
Teacher today are leeches on taxpayers and are useless to society. They harm children through their liberal garbage and fail to teach.
Is this what we want kids spending that time learning in today’s society? Mind you, the age of cursive as a practical, daily application has passed.
At least they won’t be propagandized during this lesson, unless of course they have to write quotes from Mein Kampf.
I think I understand your position, just wonder if we have to dump reading writing and arithmetic to be progressive in education.
Ha! Good you said "may." How about individual style in driving? Not welcome in the collective! Here's the deal. Wriring must be legible, and legibility must be learned by discipline. Discipline--no matter what the topic--requires a common standard. Musicians who learn the rules are the ones wo have personal style. Back to school you go. In any case, if you search examples of cursive handwriting and pick the nicest of them all, you'll see they're all different. So I think your argument about individual style is a virus.
i’m 47 and i hate texting. I use the voice option but with my NYC accent, only half the words come out right and the text makes no sense lol
I agree.
Here’s a link about how writing “by hand” triggers different areas of the brain compared with tracing letters or keyboarding.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/03/science/whats-lost-as-handwriting-fades.html?_r=0
Here’s an odd quote from the next link:
“ Our new U.S. Secretary of the Treasury can’t (or won’t) write his own name on the new money being “
and
“Yet scientists are discovering that learning cursive is an important tool for cognitive development, particularly in training the brain to learn “functional specialization”[2] (link is external)—that is, the capacity for optimal efficiency. In the case of learning cursive writing, the brain develops functional specialization that integrates both sensation, movement control, and thinking. Brain imaging studies reveal that multiple areas of brain become co-activated during the learning of cursive writing of pseudo-letters, as opposed to typing or just visual practice.”
https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/memory-medic/201303/why-writing-hand-could-make-you-smarter
Why should it be a practical, daily application? Handriting practice teaches dexterity and precision, a developmental necessity.
You are from NEW YORK CITY!!! Hi I’m from Texas and I have children older than you. Nice to meet you. ; )
Calligraphy works training wheels. The ink pen is flat, and that forces a line direction. A fat roller ball will produce horrible penmanship. The better the the tool, the better the product.
Teaching cursive is like teaching music....it EXERCISES THE BRAIN. Not everyone will be good at it or need it but having been CHALLENGED to learn it, all benefit.
Nice to meet you back. I’m a victim of Italian immigrants getting off Ellis Island and not straying too much past the east coast!
I like NYC though. However, I HATE all the liberals.
You have children older than me. Must be a nice full life you have had and still are :)
You second link supports the point I was making with my first post to this thread.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3341688/posts?page=39#39
School days, school days,
Dear old golden rule days.
‘Readin’ and ‘ritin’ and ‘rithmetic,
Taught to the tune of a hick’ry stick.
‘Nuff said... :-)
You = Your
DITTO and BUMP!
Post #50 by Little Pig:
“But if those kids are unable to read the original, how will they know if the version they’re reading online is correct? Once no one can read the original, it becomes very easy to start introducing paraphrases and distortions by “making the language accessible”.”
From the public schools.
Same thing happened with Phonics and whole language. Phonics has been a success in helping children to read and write and spell. But the experts said we have to justify our lives/jobs lets introduce something else. Whole language, we will teach children to memorize each and every word in the english language how to spell it and pronounce it. No need to learn the letter sounds and their few exceptions, no we will learn every word and memorize it.
It's a real pity students can no longer write cursive. Are they even using block letters for their signature? Unbelievable.
I remember learning cursive in second grade...at least beginning cursive.
We had the (cursive) letter boards, lined up above the our green chalk board.
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