Posted on 12/05/2019 5:54:34 AM PST by bryan999
One of the things to be dropped from New Jersey classroom requirements under Common Core standards nearly a decade ago was cursive writing. Now, a state assemblywoman has proposed adding the "life skill" to existing lessons so that New Jersey children can read and write in cursive by the end of third grade.
Assemblywoman Angela McKnight, D-Hudson, said she had first-hand experience with the consequence of leaving out such instruction when her son, then a third-grader, could not read something she had written by hand.
Years later, McKnight's son is a college undergrad who can sign his name in cursive on a check or legal document, thanks to his mother's instruction at home.
She said the measure is a response to feedback from residents within her district over the past several years.
The bill would add such supplemental instruction back into the curriculum, as McKnight said this is not for a stand-alone class and not meant as a take away from classroom time on other subjects.
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Maybe she's a fake RAT and needs to switch parties, but good on her, and I fully support this effort.
The teaches is retarded, sir.
My grandson’s school finally went back to teaching cursive when he was 14. He was so proud when he could write instead of block-print.
Happening here in Pittsburgh too.
Democrat Mayor feeling the heat from his Democrat constituents about the crappy public schools being run by a corrupt Democrat who blew half a mil on travel last year. Oh, yeah, they are proposing a tax increase too.
My handwriting is so bad, its hard to tell which is which.
How white of her.
RE: The teaches is retarded, sir.
Um, WTF does that even mean?
I guess we would have had to have gone to a common core school to know.
In this day and age, cursive is a total waste of time.
I’d get an e-writing board and practice your writing. It isn’t too late to improve.
It’s not like it’s rocket science. Cursive is primarily just the same letters strung together. I use cursive more than I used to for writing notes at work, making lists, etc. My thumbs are so sore from arthritis these days that I find it easier to write in a flowing script than to write with block letters.
If you can’t write it you probably can’t read it.
And so goes the history.
Its much faster to write and i can tell you that when i give a presentation or such and use old style narrow heavily right leaning cursive to tag icons or make notes people not only start paying more attention they start paying more attention to me afterwards.. maybe it’s subconscious as most of my cleints/peers are old enough to remember the days when secretaries did the typing or something but it works well enough I’ve spent a lot of tine the last few years learning to write correctly even on a screen (which is somehwat more difficult than pen and paper)
They don’t want anybody to be able to read the Constitution.
They can teach Latin.
Except that young people can’t type either. I don’t know how they write their exams if they can’t write in cursive and can’t type. Printing is a lot slower than writing in cursive.
That helped me get through most of school.
People assumed I knew what I was talking about and read way above my age.
It was a handicap_Not a plus_to stop teaching cursive writing in schools..
And parents went along with it not raising a stink?!
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