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In the Keys, Elementary schools are not teaching their children cursive anymore!!
I was just so surprised to her this, I asked about it and they said that they want the children to learn about computers. So now just because we have computers, we're just going to be lazy and give up writing all together. What is happening to our schools. How are our children going to write their own signatures once they get older. My grandkids learned cursive and that was just a few years ago!
At my daughter's high school she can't even take a basic keyboarding class (due to funding, apparently)...which makes all those new computers at her disposal rather ridiculous.
No, many schools do not stress (or teach) cursive writing, penmanship, spelling, basic math skills, or anything else deemed too outside the realm of technology. Who needs good handwriting or spelling when you can simply use Spell Check and utilize a pretty font? And why bother learning multiplication or division when the teacher demands the kids use a calculator?
Then again, she isn't being taught anything not found on the state's compulsory and idiotic annual test. Same situation here in Indiana as it was back in Washington state.
Cursive was a waste when I was forced to learn it. My father who went to catholic school/university could always print faster than I could write legibly in cursive. Today it definitely is a poor use of any student's time. There's simply no point to it. As long as you learn to efficiently write letters in print form there no great loss of culture nor history, so I say, let's move forward with eliminating cursive writing from public education. There's other things much more important for our children to learn about at young ages... physical science just to name one (why the fundaments of Physics is finally taught only in US high schools is a mystery to me).
I personally think learning to write cursive is a waste of time. After about 3rd or 4th grade, I've completely forgotten it. What is the point in learning something you'll just forget? Years ago when I took the SAT, we had to copy an agreement in cursive, and everyone in the room struggled with it. Time should be spent on more useful things.
...but then again, I think our education system is broken beyond repair, and we're doomed in the future.
Funny my son just started cursive and he writes it beautifully! He is in 2nd grade; and his cursive is much nicer than his printing!
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