I agree with the points of the article. I can understand why it can be helpful, aesthetically and for brain functioning, but how practical is it. Students, now, do much of their school work on computers; often for the convenience, but also because of the shear volume of the work they need to hand in. Even most forms you need to fill out, one can do so one screen, of if you do fill out a paper form, it's in block print. Have most men write a sentence, it will most likely be printed, not cursive. If cursive is going to be taught in schools, the school needs to adjust their expectations regarding work load. I never would have been able to complete the work required, post high school, writing in cursive.
...doesn't require it, but many teachers still teach it anyway. I'm with the righties on this one -- I think cursive should be taught.
http://thefederalist.com/2015/02/25/ten-reasons-people-still-need-cursive/
It'll be a thing of the past, shit I can't remember how to do the Z's....this is fuck up.
I don't know if the emphasis on penmanship prevalent when I was a boy should be stressed so much, but readability in longhand seems important.
This is significant in the same way that the teaching of math and algebra are. The mind develops ways of problem solving that goes beyond algebra that is important. In cursive, an appreciation of form and communication is instilled in the most immediate, mundane, and utilitarian ways.
...the E Plebnista:
Future archaeologists will study and attempt to decipher cursive writing the way their predecessors studied cuneiform and hieroglyphics.
The pace of technology will eliminate the need for handwriting skills within the next 50 years other than as a specialty of artisan scribes if we don't self-destruct or experience a catastrophe before then.
Oh wait. Too much ADD for that to work out.
had to take a few hours off from work. One of them had to go to the bank with her daughter (high school graduate) because the daughter did not know how to write her name and wanted to open an account. The daughter did not have any learning disability. Sad part is that it is true. This blew my mind.
This thing of high schools running sports programs for the few who excel and then paying no attention at all to the rest of the student body who need to work out. shouldn't they be learn a few exercise techniques and explore various sports even though they might have no interest in ever p,saying the, seriously? Schools should help all the students stay fit and learn habits that make it easier to stay fit and healthy throughout their lives.
but is Phys Ed for the average kid really a thing of the past?
If true, and since I have no kids and it's a topic that doesn't come up in casual conversation for me, so I have no idea if it really is true or not, but if so, I agree completely. When Poke man is being touted as a way to get kids/adults out from behind their computer monitors and finally do at least some walking, we are a country in serious need of being whipped into shape.
We talk about all the evils of cigarettes, alcohol, drugs, cancer etc. How about the cost of having a nation of fat asses who will die an early death due to inactivity? Of course it could be a way of fixing Social Security if people start dying early again.
I agree with the points of the article. I can understand why it can be helpful, aesthetically and for brain functioning, but how practical is it. Students, now, do much of their school work on computers; often for the convenience, but also because of the shear volume of the work they need to hand in. Even most forms you need to fill out, one can do so one screen, of if you do fill out a paper form, it's in block print. Have most men write a sentence, it will most likely be printed, not cursive. If cursive is going to be taught in schools, the school needs to adjust their expectations regarding work load. I never would have been able to complete the work required, post high school, writing in cursive.
... point pen to a Uniball then to a Royale typewriter and finally on to Word Perfect V1.0
Then I realized the other day I was talking into my smartphone using talk to text software.
As I said earlier, fifty years from now, people will not write at all. It will become an artisan craft for scribes and historians
at least where I live, teacher's unions can be blamed for dumbing down America's children. I would say cursive writing is not a necessary skill. Most peoples cursive can't be read by anyone other than the author.
Work load?
Have you ever seen the amount of books they give these kids to carry around?
... It's ridiculous,