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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I smell a nasty because of words like fanatic and smug.
Smug, you said? Some people who think dressing neatly is all about being smug. The same arguments get used. But people will use anything to be smug. They have an attitude to exercise.
Meanwhile, I think the effort of the lawmakers will not be without rewards—it’s in a good direction, not a bad direction. And it’s quite easy to teach and not hard to learn—unless unteachable. All in all, thumbs up.
Cursive writing is archaic? I don’t think so. It’s very popular in the United States. Parents have had to teach their children since the schools wouldn’t.
All much like learning to play a musical instrument, which I think has even greater benefit.
What’s with this semi-religious zeal about cursive writing?
I’ve never written cursive, I always printed and never had any problems.
You do well to speak for yourself. Most people will not despise the skill that they have learned.
Cursive handwriting is distinctive to the individual, whether very pretty, as was my mother’s, or on the opposite end as is mine. Cursive signatures are also a welcome personal touch on cards etc. There is a place for print and cursive and no reason for both not to be taught in the early years of education. As you noted, cursive developes hand eye coordination among other benefits.
Maybe they delayed it so the teachers could learn it first.
Public schools are such a joke.
That’s as worthwhile a skill as playing tiddlywink lefthanded.
and dealing cards
ANY and ALL printing is done by machine.
= = =
OK, I will try to reprogram myself since being indoctrinated by my 1st grade teacher, “Now we will do our printing.”
What is the name for hand writing, not cursive, single letters?
In mech engr drawing, it was “Lettering”.
I can’t imagine not knowing cursive writing. That seems so basic. At work we have regularly scheduled meetings, and we rotate taking the minutes. I wouldn’t be able to print fast enough to take the notes. In the future, I will have to look at the recorders and see if they are printing or handwriting. It’s something I would have never questioned before.
I actually read that in the same voice. I have no idea how I remember it still.
I am a lefty who “crooks” my wrist to write. Did you know that there are right handed “crookers”?
I have 4 children, 2 right handed, 2 left handed. 1 right handed son crooks, 1 right handed daughter doesn’t.
1 left handed son crooks, 1 right handed daughter doesn’t.
My conclusion, it is something in the brain that controls handedness and crooking - not the method of placing the paper. If I place my paper tilted to 1 o’clock, my handwriting slants so far to the left that it is almost unreadable, but if I tilt it to11 o’clock, it is vertical. I can’t write with my wrist in a normal position.
I learned cursive with the palmer method, by the way - back in the days of metal nibs and inkwells. I am not sure what methods were used to teach my children, but the inkwell was long gone when they were in school.
The brain is a mystery and an enigma. My grandchildren have not learned cursive, and I am sad for them.
I did too.. It still makes me laugh after all these years.
Yeah, I never understood why anyone would want to write left handed...your hand covers up what you just wrote unless you use that uncomfortable looking technique.
It would make sense if you wrote from right to left...but then nobody would be able to read it, unless you mentally crafted your sentences, starting with the period and last word and wrote them in reverse.
Most other operations, I can see having a right/left handed preference. (scissors for example)
But I know several very good left-handed guitar players who use the standard guitar. They have a killer left hand for fingering the fret board. You'd think a right handed player would be better on a left-hand strung guitar.
What, because pens are so so very heavy to push? Snort, hardly. I do most all my writing in cursive. Even grocery lists.
Went out to look for articles on why some right handed people “crook”, or “hook”.
Interesting to google or duckduckgo and see how many articles are written about it.
Seems to have something to do with which side of the brain speech and language processing is located.
And I made a mistake in writing about my left handed daughter who doesn’t crook or hook, saying that she was right handed. She is a southpaw, like me. So I have one of each type in my brood.
What’s wrong with it? It’s very readable and certainly not chicken scratch.
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