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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>>Delayed? Seriously? What’s to prepare? Schools should have been teaching it nonstop for the past 200 years. <<
They have to find someone to teach it to the teachers.
We’re more efficient at the dinner table. Fork in left hand and knife in the right. Those silly right handers have to set down their forks and switch hands to use a knife. We get to dessert much faster!
Rubber bands? That’s terrible! No one ever tried to force me to change hands, thank goodness.
I only write and use forks/spoons with my left hand. Pretty much everything else is done with my right hand (scissors, knives, drinking glasses, tennis raquets, baseball bats, etc.).
Your mirror image handwriting sounds cool! I definitely couldn’t do that.
They can’t write or read or spell or speak English. Why are we being taxed through the nose for the public schools?
While America slept, they removed the ability for your children or grand children to see for themselves just exactly WHAT the founders are saying to we ..... THEIR POSTERITY.
And I would watch tyhis decision with skepticism.
Right now, in my own little rural SW Pa public school district, cursive is taught for one semester in the second grade and that's IT !
I think we switched around the 4th grade
Cursive to me is a form of teaching discipline...and concentration...one reason to teach it....well...two
>>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?
Left-handed people are born with better analytical skills, so overcoming cursive really doesn’t add to our abilities at all.
Love it! But first you’ve got to teach the teachers, yes it has been that long.
I am right handed and taught myself to eat with fork in left hand and knife in right hand.
Cursive learning is much more than handwriting. It is developing hand eye coordination, teaching patience and necessity for practice, and is important in childhood development. And let the lefties write left handed.
I have started reading a couple pages a day upside down. Really demonstrates how much we use the shape of words. This is why sentence case is easier to read than upper case.
And that stupid three lined paper was so soft, if you lingered a mere fraction of a milisecond, y'ended up with a big ink blotch
Look, times change. Cursive is on the way out.
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True. In 2010, most states adopted the Common Core curriculum standards,
which don’t mention handwriting.
Last year, Alabama and Louisiana became the latest of 14 states
to pass laws requiring cursive proficiency in public schools.
And in the fall, New York City Schools – the country’s largest
school district, with 1.1 million students – encouraged teaching
cursive to elementary school students.
>>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.
I’m not talking about the bent wrist hooey. As you point out, that is easily solved and my right-handed teachers did teach that when I learned cursive in 1970. Cursive is the faster and easier alternative to block printing because the pen is mostly pulled across the paper with the pen tip slanted away from the direction of travel. Very efficient if you are using your right hand.
But a lefty has to push the pen with the point aimed in the direction of travel. Almost all the efficiency of cursive is negated making loose-form block printing more efficient for the lefty.
“Cursive writing discriminates against left-handed people, an underserved and historically oppressed minority!”
I see your humor... and I also note how lefties curl their arm around the paper and try writing upside down. Which sort reminds me of the ogre guarding his food.
My sister is a lefty and says that she often wonders about writing right to left and backwards as it would be more natural. Oddly enough my sister is an expert at calligraphy and Copperplate calligraphy... go figure.
If you take a look at a map notice that writing in countries east of Jerusalem is right to left. And West of Jerusalem is left to right.
And it is called “writing” (i.e. righting) for a reason.
Cursive writing is as archaic and USELESS as cuneiform or hieroglyphics.
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I can write cursive faster and neater than printing.
When I print that fast (and I have Mech Drawing and lettering experience), it gets messy.
When I hit college and had to take lecture notes, it was a crisis when I tried to read my own hasty writing. There was nothing for it but to print as fast as I could, rather than using cursive. But unlike Trevon’s girlfriend, I can read good cursive handwriting . . .
Oh, that's ridiculous. It's not like the founding documents need to be translated from Aramaic or Latin. They are written in English. Ones does not need to be able to read cursive to understand them.
A year or so to “prepare” to teach cursive? lololo - that says a whole heck of a lot about the system. What’s needed to teach cursive? Paper, pencil, and a large visual. Don’t the teachers know cursive? Good grief.
I already tilt my paper to the right; always have. My handwriting is laughable, anyway. It’s just totally inconsistent: letters of different sizes; different formations of letters from one word to the next (sometimes within the same word) even if preceded by the same letter; and I couldn’t write in a straight line to save my life (even if writing on lined paper). Even my signature is inconsistent: it has changed multiple times over the years because I’ve never really “locked down” my choices of letter formations. Weird.
I look at my mom’s lovely, evenly sized and spaced handwriting and wonder what the heck happened to mine. It looks like that of a kid who is experimenting with cursive, lol.
“Cursive is on the way out. Just because we learned it in school doesn’t mean it must be taught forever.”
So I reckon that you feel the same way about short hand?
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