Cursive Writing is no Longer Required in US Schools
by DM Yates
http://www.authorsden.com/nblog.asp?id=66700
Here is my comment to that...
Hello D.M.,
Thank you for that important article. Sadly, the government is so big that they have forgotten what it is to be personable and the school systems have gone along with that same feeling.
When you do away with cursive writing, you are forgetting about what it means to actually take the time to sit down, think about someone and actually decide to write a letter to that special person.
But that goes hand in hand with current practices...texting someone rather than taking 2 minutes out of your oh so busy schedule to call a loved one on the phone. God forbid you should pay someone a real visit, now that is just so time-consuming, isn't it.
So why don't we all become so wrapped up in ourselves that we forget about others and just concentrate on us. Remember the "Me" generation? Well, here it is. Welcome to our world.
Sadly reporting the facts...Dennis . Moneysaver Editing
PS Wouldn't it be great if we could find a way to get the Government to restore the cursive writing requirement? Things that are abolished are not always best practice. Even the US Government can make a mistake. That has happened more than once.
I don't think that the nation's independent school districts are controlled by "the government." From what I read in the Yates article, I think that each school is making this decision or not, just like many others that have been made as knowledge grows and the time for teaching children is so short that ways of trying to teach our kids quicker increases.
I remember many years ago when my brother complained that his daughters were not being taught the multiplication tables and he did it for them. One daughter has a degree in zoology and the other a master's degree in library science. I'm sure both benefited from knowing how to multiply without using a calculator. Many now don't.
I recently looked at a copy of the Declaration of Independence. John Hancock had marvelous cursory writing. Even more marvelous because he probably had to do it with a quill pen and a pot of ink of varying consistency. Most of the other signers were not as such penmanship, including Thomas Jefferson. This inability to write well in cursive writing has always been a problem. I faced it when trying to read essays by my students written in cursive. Let's face it, in spite of typos, spelling, bad grammar, punctuation, and other errors, typing is much easier to read than cursive.
Welcome to the 21st century! There will always be those who are verse in writing in Greek, Sanskrit, hieroglyphics, and Chinese. Can I read them? No. Am I glad that someone can? Yes.
You are totally right about the "me" generation, but that has also always been true.
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I remember many years ago when my brother complained that his daughters were not being taught the multiplication tables and he did it for them. One daughter has a degree in zoology and the other a master's degree in library science. I'm sure both benefited from knowing how to multiply without using a calculator. Many now don't.
I recently looked at a copy of the Declaration of Independence. John Hancock had marvelous cursory writing. Even more marvelous because he probably had to do it with a quill pen and a pot of ink of varying consistency. Most of the other signers were not as such penmanship, including Thomas Jefferson. This inability to write well in cursive writing has always been a problem. I faced it when trying to read essays by my students written in cursive. Let's face it, in spite of typos, spelling, bad grammar, punctuation, and other errors, typing is much easier to read than cursive.
Welcome to the 21st century! There will always be those who are verse in writing in Greek, Sanskrit, hieroglyphics, and Chinese. Can I read them? No. Am I glad that someone can? Yes.
You are totally right about the "me" generation, but that has also always been true.