Shoot, I’m teaching my girls Spencerian Penmanship and I’m learning it at the same time! I bought fountain pens for them and after we all get better at it I’ll get the copperplate fountain pens that really make the writing look pretty!
I imagine this retard teacher would REALLY hate that!
Awesome! I’ll have to try that!
...since “EBONICS” failed,let’s attack penmanship.
LOL don’t forget to teach their teachers.
I will look into Spencerian Penmanship.
I am an exceptional calligrapher, but my cursive has always been cursed.
Incidentally, speaking of “shaming”:
Both my Fourth and one of my Seventh grade teachers accused me openly of lying when I submitted lettering artwork as part of an assignment. I remember being speechless in both cases; I was taught by my parents not to question authority. I was a Straight-A student with no history of lying whatsoever. It was particularly painful coming from my favorite teacher in 7th at a “Christian” private school.
In my senior year, I did all of the special lettering for the yearbook by hand in pen and ink - without using any guidelines: A micrometer did not indicate any measurable horizontal deviation in my lines. It was partly a matter of pride, but mainly a way to force my hand-eye coordination to improve.
At university, I read The Chronicles of Narnia. I was struck by Lewis’ logic via the professor: He asked the kids who was historically more honest, Edmund or Lucy. When they admitted it was easily Lucy, he suggested they simply believe her outlandish tale, then muttered something like, what do they teach these kids in school?
I admit that those accusations dampened my enthusiasm for art.
Those teachers had zero reason to doubt me, except that they could not accept my precocity in art. (My older brother, by the bye, was an artistic genius from age five, with considerably more ability than myself.)