Cursive
I was surprised to learn that kids today only spend one week on cursive, trying to learn to read it. Writing it is probably a dead or dying skill. But, yeah, everyone should know how to read it.
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February 3rd, 2014 at 8:41 pm
I saw cursive briefly in the third grade but never really learned how to write it until I acquired a Lamy Al-star fountain pen, on Lawdog’s recommendation, while in college. Now it (Both the pen and cursive) are all I use. As a teacher though, I often have students who will complain about it and ask what it is I’m writing because they can’t read it. One even asked me what language I was using.
February 4th, 2014 at 12:22 am
This report doesn’t mention if the longhand was cursive or not but they did find that longhand beat electronic note taking for better learning
So there may be a real use for cursive in improving learning?
February 4th, 2014 at 12:37 am
We’re raising people who won’t even be able to sign their name to a contract. Sheeesh.
And by the way, yes…. Get offa my lawn, you kids!
February 4th, 2014 at 10:04 am
Good slaves can’t read or write.
February 4th, 2014 at 1:35 pm
Noooooo….
The “new” secret communications venue amongst folks
not limited by current mandatory “public education” (preK-16) is cursive, on paper, sent in an envelope, via. USPS.
OK, it COULD be a simple, hand written thank you note, or not, but that’s what “concealed (letter) carry” is all about.
Yet, we ALL know that even first class letter envelopes are sent to “central processing” centers, scanned both sides, SOME printed with “invisible” bar codes, and the image stored (allegedly “only for a while”)for high speed distribution-even to the neighboring P.O., RIGHT?
February 4th, 2014 at 2:01 pm
JKB — that sort of study has been done repeatedly, and it really doesn;t matter if teh notes are in cursive, printed, or even shorthand — the trick is that you are using a writing method that is _fast_enought_for_you_ that you can avoid falling too far behind the flow of the learning.
I can print faster than I can write cursive (even when using cursive almost exlcusively, under pain of Nun-Wielded Ruler), and it is FAR more legible to others (again, even when I was expected to use it exclusively, under threat of significant negative physical feedback).
And if we’re going to teach cursive, which _form_? They ARE NOT the same, and letterforms vary wildly. As for worrying that “people won’t be able to read the original founding documents”, well, the fact is that only _dozens_ of people had the opportunity to read the longhand form of them back when they were promulgated anyway — pretty much everyone who wasn’t actually a signer or the file clerks who handled them had to rely on type-set copies run up for printing.
If you’re _really_ worried about people not being able to “read the original, like their forefathers did”, you’d concentrate on teaching them the rules for a long-S (and you might as well teach them now-obsolete letters like thorn, so they can read other old documents that our founding documents are based on).