Schools to Stop teaching Cursive!

I demand my GPA be reset. I was awful at cursive writing; still am.

Sadly, this is one subject that would not fall under the NCLB regulations...
 
jillio said:
For students it is. College students today grew up with computers. They use them the way we used to use a pen and paper.
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Personally, I say good riddance to pen and paper. Writing by hand was always difficult for me. :P
 
jillio said:
There are plenty of other ways to develop fine motor skills.
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Yeah, this way you're teaching a child how to write their name at the same time! My granddaughter learned how to spell her name by printing it and she was very proud of it, and I bet she will love to know how write it too as she love draw.
 
jillio said:
For students it is. College students today grew up with computers. They use them the way we used to use a pen and paper.
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I am dyslexia and it take me forever to type ! I have words underlined in red all the time!
It would had made no difference if I grew up with computers , I would had still take the time to correct all my misspelled. When I write I did not know I misspelled words so I kept on writing.
 
deafskeptic said:
Personally, I say good riddance to pen and paper. Writing by hand was always difficult for me. :P
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I have gone as paperless as I possibly can. Digital is much more efficient. I don't even need paper copies of the forms I use.
 
jillio said:
I have gone as paperless as I possibly can. Digital is much more efficient.
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Yep. I have not forgotten the time that my Special Ed teacher made me re-write a paper 3 times and I rebelled and refused to write it a 4th time.
 
whatdidyousay! said:
I am dyslexia and it take me forever to type ! I have words underlined in red all the time!
It would had made no difference if I grew up with computers , I would had still take the time to correct all my misspelled. When I write I did not know I misspelled words so I kept on writing.
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Thank goodness for spell check, huh?
 
Daughter took up beading to help with her hand/eye coordination and motor skills. She plays on her DSiXL daily and also on the XBox 360 daily. Still her handwriting is atrocious.

Ah well, we still work on handwriting daily. She has 20 sentences daily that must be printed 5 times and done in cursive 5 times each, then she has to copy a paragraph from any book in the house in both print and cursive daily. She and son both have to do this. I do as well, just to prove to them that you're never too old to work on handwriting.
 
KristinaB said:
Daughter took up beading to help with her hand/eye coordination and motor skills. She plays on her DSiXL daily and also on the XBox 360 daily. Still her handwriting is atrocious.

Ah well, we still work on handwriting daily. She has 20 sentences daily that must be printed 5 times and done in cursive 5 times each, then she has to copy a paragraph from any book in the house in both print and cursive daily. She and son both have to do this. I do as well, just to prove to them that you're never too old to work on handwriting.
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Beading will most definately help with the fine motor skills. Actually, any kind of artwork will: painting, sketching, pen and ink...etc.
 
jillio said:
Beading will most definately help with the fine motor skills. Actually, any kind of artwork will: painting, sketching, pen and ink...etc.
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Yep. I don't think my teachers would miss my doodles though. :giggle:
 
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