Cursive Writing

[the ringo kid]

I would guess a school like that would have to prioritize what's worth spending time on and what can be cut

Last school-issued """"history book"""" I looked at-was sent to me about 15 years ago by a friend of mine who was the Principal of a high school in Michigan. It had all of a whopping 6 pages devoted to WWII-three were on the holocost. What they SHOULD have done--was an equal-or appropriate amount according to length of section. I dont think a mere six pages is appropriate for WWII (this book was over 700 pages) and more details could have been added for everything especially what the Jews went through.

 

[the ringo kid]

I was taught cursive and wrote in that style for years. I have now been printing so long, I have lost the ability to write in cursive.
If you don't use it, you DO lose it!

Inadvertently, my writing is a mixture of both and I dont realize it till im through writing the letter. This is akin to - say--hispanics--speaking using Spanish and English to say something. One of my neighbors has spoken so long integrating both languages-that she doesnt realize she is doing so. Luckily (I guess?) I do understand enough Spanish-so no issue with me.

 

[the ringo kid]

I cannot recall the last time I read a novel, text book, Word doc, owners manual or bar tab written in cursive.

Can you read this wonderful masterpiece of a document?

Or this wonderful work of art?

 

[the ringo kid]

When I started reading this thread I had to go and look, Do I write or print?
Yes, I still write in cursive. Got me thinking about filling in forms that say
"Please print" Don't know how many times I started in cursive and had to go back and re-do. Guess cursive is firmly ingrained in my brain despite years of computer use.

My granddaughters ages 6 & 8 attend private school, the 8 yr old will be learning cursive this year.

When they say to print--its just an ""awful"" habit of mine to write in cursive.

 

[the ringo kid]

Good riddance to cursive! Very few have the gift, patience, or skill to write in cursive to be clearly legible like the example above.

In the medical side, I often told doctors who are writing drug orders for a critical care transport to print legibly and use the full decimal for drug doses to reduce any misunderstanding in the treatment.

Print reduces mistaken words in a sloppy cursive.

I say thee NAY to getting rid of cursive. The one thing I was greatful for-that they got rid of--is Metrics.

 

[crsides]

Well I heard yesterday on the old radio that Charlotte school teachers have been instructed not to use the words Boy and Girl. It was confusing to some.

Charlie

 

[Cardboard_killer]

Well I heard yesterday on the old radio that Charlotte school teachers have been instructed not to use the words Boy and Girl. It was confusing to some.

I heard the martians were invading; I was in my basement for weeks before I figured it out.

 

[vytoland]

when i first became aware that cursive was not going to be taught in schools any more....i wondered how are people going to sign their names on legal documents....printing may not be unique to an individual.......

 

[medic15al]

I say thee NAY to getting rid of cursive. The one thing I was greatful for-that they got rid of--is Metrics.

I do agree with the metrics there.

 

[medic15al]

Can you read this wonderful masterpiece of a document?

Or this wonderful work of art?

The First Amendment is easy to read, but the Constitution document I cannot read due to too many squiggles and not enough clearly defined words and letters. Almost to the point of arabic to me.

 

[jrm53]

I started school in a one room country school that had one teacher taught all the kids from first through the eighth grade. They had a set of letters over the black board and we had to practice making them like the example, also a lot of ovals hooked together. She made you hold the pencil just like she did. I see younger folks holding pencils like they were a knife and they are going to stab you with it, we would have gotten a knuckle hit with a wooden ruler if we had written this way. I started school in late 1945. Jeff

 

[Cardboard_killer]

when i first became aware that cursive was not going to be taught in schools any more....i wondered how are people going to sign their names on legal documents....printing may not be unique to an individual.......

Electronic signatures are working their way into the norm. The Chinese use chops.

At my last job, our office was paperless. And I've worked for a couple of firms that were "paperless", but this was the real deal. My office had my desk, phone, computer, all-in-one printer, a shredder and a fujitsu scanner. Anything we produced that was part of the workpapers was scanned and then put in the shred box. At the end of each day, no paper documents were left over.

 

[EugeneNine]

What about those of us who can't write in cursive, should we be forced to fail?

 

[dmar]

My son is 10, going into 5th grade next week (also have a daughter going into 1st grade, too). He learned cursive in 3rd grade, and they still say the Pledge of Allegiance each morning. I like it like that...

 

[Onomea]

Generally speaking, previous generations wrote cursive much more beautifully than mine. My maternal grandmother's writing/calligraphy was beautiful.

I use cursive for note taking, the occasional card, and such.

I found it very handy in business for taking notes at important meetings, and then using the notes to type up transcripts of who said what for dissemination. (I learned how to do that in college and grad school, where I soon twigged to the fact that if you told your professors on exams exactly what they told you in lectures they thought you a brilliant student.)

I needed to do the typing quickly though as with the passage of time my own notes became increasingly illegible, even to me.

I think it is a useful skill to have.

And I recall how proud I felt when, along about the third grade, we were allowed to use ballpoint or even fountain/cartridge pens! (Ruined many a shirt pocket with the latter.)

 

[retiredbadge8091]

Cursive writing is pretty and very useful for hand written correspondence. But other than that let's face it, I'm old and any real writing I did was required to be typed. There were folks who made a living as typists. Any college or university work that was handed in had to be typed. Business documents were typed, etc., etc.

As a cop my reports went from being hand printed to taped to typed on a computer. The hand printed and taped reports had to be transcribed by a records clerk first on a type writer/word processor and then later on a computer. In all that time I was never allowed to use cursive, other than for my signature.

Cursive writing should live on as maybe an art form like lace work or wood carving and be an elective class in school. Your personal "mark," not unlke the "X" of old will probably take the place of a signature, if not your finger print or retinal scan. Afterall when was the last time you used sealing wax.

 

[Evil Dog]

Afterall when was the last time you used sealing wax.

Uh, last week actually. I also do medieval reenacting.

 

[TIMETRIPPER]

The less people know, the easier they are to control.

John

 

[the ringo kid]

The First Amendment is easy to read, but the Constitution document I cannot read due to too many squiggles and not enough clearly defined words and letters. Almost to the point of arabic to me.

Heh heh, id have to remove my glasses to read since my eyesight sucks.

 

[the ringo kid]

and they still say the Pledge of Allegiance each morning. I like it like that...

Not here they don't.