Say it ain't so.
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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Good idea about getting a handwriting book. Maybe it’s not too late to improve it. It’s worth a try!
There's a few who will never learn to be neat.
One district that I am familiar with in SE Pennsylvania does not teach it at all! Seventh grader cannot read a menu if written in cursive. Pathetic.
Say it ain't so.
That is crazy! Cool, though. I definitely can’t do that. Well, I’m assuming I can’t...I’m not sure I’ve ever tried it, come to think of it.
I’ll give it a whirl today if I think about it. Thanks for mentioning it!
I seriously don’t get people’s fanatical attachment to cursive as if it really is some mark of being civilized.
I learned it, and today I write in manuscript because I value people being able to read what I write, not how I wrote it, far more.
You, another fanatic anti-writing freak?
Yes! And it’s far more elegant than text speak, which is how kids write now. They look moronic.
I’m an author and I still make a lot of notes and outlines in cursive, just because I enjoy it. There is something about putting pen to paper that is slightly magical. I can get a much better flow going that way than by staring at a computer.
We really didn’t need yet another excuse to keep American kids illiterate.
“anti-writing”? LOL!
Cursive =/= writing. It may make your handwritten letters, if that is still something people still do, look “pretty”, but it doesn’t change the meaning of the words from them being written in manuscript.
Well, between pretty and messy, I think you should be fanatic.
“Cursive writing discriminates against left-handed people, an underserved and historically oppressed minority!”
It is the truth! Fountain pens, scissors, notebook binders, checkbooks, smartphones, butter knives, so many hateful things. Its a conspiracy I tell ya!
Good grief. It's not like teaching writing is a bad thing. Besides teaching people to be neat, a good handwriting can greatly aid in the learning of language.
Even left-handed paper!
(I'm kidding, I'm kidding...) :-)
(I'm a lefty also)
“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.”
I have heard this from others too. However, the reasoning at the time was stupid. They believed the left hand was the “devil’s hand” and was associated with the word sinister. I am left handed and am glad that thinking has changed!
(I’m a lefty also)....You are on the wrong forum, then./s
Cursive writing discriminates against left-handed people, an underserved and historically oppressed minority!
Lefty Lives Matter!
Writing style depends on the tool and the technique. If you push rather than pull certain mediums it can change the ease of execution and the way it looks. The left-hand is certainly disadvantaged with an ink nib.
smart righties like myself figured that out a long time ago
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