Posted on 07/04/2017 5:09:29 AM PDT by bgill
Louisiana’s public school classrooms will be required to teach cursive writing to students starting with the new school year.
That mandate, approved by lawmakers in 2016 but delayed a year so schools could prepare, is among more than two dozen new laws
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Cursive writing discriminates against left-handed people, an underserved and historically oppressed minority!
In the days of the inkwell.
I was in 8th grade by the time we could use real pens.
Interesting...many Cajun surnames end in “-eaux” (i.e. Arceneaux, Breaux, Thibodeaux, etc.) while their French counterparts had no, “x”. One theory posited is that in early legal documents, the rate of illiteracy was such that prepared documents would have the name printed for the signer who would then place an, “x” after the printed surname. This theory has been contested, but not with any definitive certitude.
Somewhere along the way human civilization quit teaching kids hieroglyphic writing. I’m sure there were people bemoaning that, too. Look, times change. Cursive is on the way out. Just because we learned it in school doesn’t mean it must be taught forever.
Ahhhh.....or do all those minor inconveniences cause us to be more imaginative, independent, and more able to endure minor impediments to success? Does this enhance our problem solving skills?
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Cursive is archaic
If it can’t be thumbed, it isn’t
I’m left-handed and my penmanship is awful, lol. Print, cursive, you name it...bad. I’ve always heard that left-handed people tend to have poorer handwriting than right-handed people. If my handwriting is any indication, that’s true! :)
One of my kids is a lefty, they have special everything from scissors to notebook
I’m a Hebrew language student and the cursive writing is so much easier...same in English. Crazy that some are trying to eliminate cursive.
I’m a lefty. No problems with cursive. The problem is with right handed teachers not being smart enough to have left handed students tilt their paper the opposite direction. Right handers have the top of their paper tilted toward 11 o’clock where left handers should tilt their papers to 1 o’clock. That fixes all that ridiculous upside down bent wrist hooey.
Cursive is much faster than printing.
That’s cool.
> I’m left-handed and my penmanship is awful, lol.
I started out left handed, but the teachers used to wrap my left hand fingers with rubber bands to force me to be right handed. What they didn’t know was that I could write normal with one hand and mirror image with the other.
you got that right, soooo much easier than printing
Yes, if not for the Rosetta Stone we still would not know what those hieroglyphics said.
Centuries of information lost.
I grew up in Louisiana, at a time when cursive writing was still a required curriculum item.
I refused to use it.
I did the lessons, and I “know how”, but my penmanship was so atrocious that I never used it for daily purposes other than a signature. These days, 99% of my written communication is typed. My small notes are printed rather than written in cursive.
Cursive writing is as archaic and USELESS as cuneiform or hieroglyphics. Even pictogram languages like Chinese and Japanese are fading from common use.
I am right handed and my cursive used to really suck, but guess what It’s called penmanship, you get a book, like perhaps a calligraphy book and you practice. Your handwriting improves.
See my #11 for lefties. Just tilt your paper to the right. Simple solution.
A neighbor of mine, left-handed, will write (things for herself) backwards.
In a mirror, it looks like my right-handed script.
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