"..watchu talking bout Bob"
Posted on 03/05/2017 8:55:48 PM PST by nickcarraway
Alabama and Louisiana passed laws in 2016 mandating cursive proficiency in public schools
Cursive writing is looping back into style in schools across the country after a generation of students raised on keyboarding, texting and printing out letters longhand.
Alabama and Louisiana passed laws in 2016 mandating cursive proficiency in public schools, the latest of 14 states to require cursive. And last fall, the 1.1 million-student New York City school system encouraged teaching cursive to students in the third grade.
Penmanship proponents contend writing words in a single line is just a faster way of taking notes. Others say students should be able to understand cursive documents. And research suggests cursive helps students master spelling and sentence construction because they don't have to think as much about forming letters.
About time.
Fifty years ago, while we were in elementary school, we were graded for ‘penmanship’.
Ask a young’un today , and they won’t have any idea what that means... they will think it is a secret cheat code for the XBOX games.
Actually the fastest way to take notes is to take joint notes using a program like MS OneNote.
“Racist”. I’m first!
Bring back the “z!”
Watch this whole clip.... so worth it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7WSgC9oGic
This is the best news I have heard all year!!!!!
Thanks.
recently a friends college freshman son celebrated his first birthday away from the family nest so she asked friends to birthday card bomb him.
i sent him a card and a Chick Fil A gift card and a few weeks later a card shows up in the mail that i thought was from a kid. sloppy, lettering that looked like something i would expect from a 2nd grader. i open the card up and sure enough, it was all printed out looking ridiculously hideous for a college student.
What is a joint note?
I taught school 60 years ago,first grade, and The Palmer method was taught.
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Actually the fastest way to take notes is to take joint notes using a program like MS OneNote.
What are “joint notes”?
Sorry but I’m an old cursive guy who also enjoyed calligraphy as a youngster.
"..watchu talking bout Bob"
My one vanity is that I have an almost perfect “Palmer hand”. :-)
She’s a sad symbol, of ill educated young people, who can’t read cursive. I wonder how well she reads at all.
Will schools teach kids to use an abacus and slide rule next?
It is when you have the entire class take notes togeather
Cursive is fast indeed if you are all by yourself, but in a class you aren’t. What you are doing isn’t something you have to do by yourself
Thank you.
I’m torn on this. I went to private schools where everyone had to learn perfect penmanship in both printing and cursive. All reports had to be written in it. But as relevant as that skill was at the beginning of the computer revolution I have not had a single reason to write in it in at least 20 years. I’m not sure I could string together the alphabet now without a little practice.
And yes, even reading it is a bit of a challenge unless the writer forms the letters well. When was the last time any of you had to read cursive outside of historical or archived documents from the 80s and earlier? I still had to write in it into the 90s but outside of the classroom it was already long gone.
As wonderful as it was, it’s a dead script today unless we want to resurrect it for taking notes fast and having our phones and tablets convert it.
I never used an abacus, but using a slide rule made me a far better engineer than the kids with computers and calculators today. Instead of blindly trusting the result of a calculator, I had to think about whether the answer made sense and just how big a number I should expect for the result.
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