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Posted on 06/28/2013 1:29:33 PM PDT by TigerClaws
A single sentence, uttered in the trial of George Zimmerman for the shooting of teenager Trayvon Martin, has catapulted an issue into the national spotlight.
When asked if she could read a letter in court, witness Rachel Jeantel, her head bowed, murmured with embarrassment, "I don't read cursive," according to court testimony.
Is it any surprise that cursive -- the looped, curvaceous style of handwriting that's been a mainstay of education for generations -- is all but dead? [15 Weird Things We Do Everyday, and Why]
"Cursive should be allowed to die. In fact, it's already dying, despite having been taught for decades," Morgan Polikoff, assistant professor of education at the University of Southern California's Rossier School of Education, told The New York Times.
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Those nuns, they didn’t waste those rulers. Practising cursive writing is important.
A person’s handwriting mirrors the architecture of their brain; how their brain functions. Just practising cursive handwriting actually can change thought processes.
Digital signatures or retina scan or some other BS.
IMHO removing cursive writing from schools removes one of the ways some people learn.
Ya, I was shocked that she could not read a letter she supposedly wrote. The fact that it was cursive is a side issue. It occured to me too, that there have to be some legal violations involved here. Perjury, evidence which has been tampered with, perhaps? Somebody fabricated this letter in order to get it into evidence at the trial.
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Pleasesee #83.
Is cursive dead? Is the bound book dead? Is the sovereign state dead?
Imagine the power of a global government.
Electronic books, cell phones, smart meters all cut off, all nations suffering the same.
No nation to see the suffering of another and come to their aid.
We all become slaves to the few.
Eliminate it. It’s an excuse for some people to make unintelligible marks on paper.
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When we all have a micro-chip installed on our person, we will not need to be able to sign our name. Big Bro will know what we are doing and where we are doing it. Like an electronic 666.
If she can't read it, how the hell did she write it?
She can't read at all. Look at her testimony on the previous day. She's handed typed exhibits and asked to comment on them, and clearly has no idea what they say (even though they were transcripts of her own statements.)
My paternal grandfather had died while my dad was a child.
He was a pharmacist. So the joke around our house was that was too bad because he was likely the only one in the family who could have read my handwriting.
The left wants to let cursive die, yet they support spending over $100,000 per year to support an on staff calligraphist at Obama’s White House.
LOL... that might work.
I remember learning the Palmer Method of cursive writing and spending hours doing penmanship exercises. The only cursive I use now is to sign my name. My kids sign their names in illegible scrawls and never learned cursive. However not being able to read cursive is a lame excuse.
you talking switching brain hemispheres
You got it.
Don’t kid yourself. It wasn’t just writing practice.
When I was 7-years old, I used to take piano lessons in a convent garden house, presided over by an Austrian nun. She used to smack my little fingers with a hard wooden ruler. Ouch!
I remember learning the Palmer Method of cursive writing and spending hours doing penmanship exercises. The only cursive I use now is to sign my name. My kids sign their names in illegible scrawls and never learned cursive. However not being able to read cursive is a lame excuse.
They’ll just let whoever need their mark to scan their government Bar Code.
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