Schools to Stop teaching Cursive!

Jiro said:
I dunno if "mom n' pop" pharmacy has computer like that :dunno:
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Not many "mom and pop" pharmacies left. The big chains have pretty much put them out of business.
 
TheWriteAlex said:
Cursive is an anachronistic waste of time. There are much more important things we should be teaching our children in the 21st century. Good riddance.
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It doesn't require a lot of time, and they aren't doing it in high school classes. :lol:

Once they learn how to write cursively, they save time later in their note writing because cursive is faster.

I transferred from an East Coast school to a West Coast school in the middle of the second grade. The West Coast students had already learned how to write in cursive but I hadn't even started. The teacher didn't want to hold things up, so she gave me the cursive writing text book and told me to learn on my own time. Which I did. It didn't take up too much time.

The most time-consuming part of learning how to write was filling the ink pens and cleaning up the mess afterwards. :giggle: Yes, we had wooden desks with inkwell holes in them for our little bottles of ink. We also had to bring fountain pens and blotter cards to school for our penmanship class. It was really messy for the poor lefties.

I don't recall us falling behind scholastically just because we took penmanship training. :lol:
 
Poor fine motor control means my cursive writing is not good at all.
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Ditto. I was in Resource Room for handwriting as a kid. (mild hypotonia) I can print faster then I can handwrite. When I wrote in cursive, I had to concentrate on the actual act of writing. Now I can just work on content....can type SUPER fast!
 
jillio said:
Not many "mom and pop" pharmacies left. The big chains have pretty much put them out of business.
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sad....

fortunately - we still have several left around here because of older Korean people and Hispanic people. I haven't used the big chain pharmacy in a long time.
 
Reba said:
It doesn't require a lot of time, and they aren't doing it in high school classes. :lol:

Once they learn how to write cursively, they save time later in their note writing because cursive is faster.

I transferred from an East Coast school to a West Coast school in the middle of the second grade. The West Coast students had already learned how to write in cursive but I hadn't even started. The teacher didn't want to hold things up, so she gave me the cursive writing text book and told me to learn on my own time. Which I did. It didn't take up too much time.

The most time-consuming part of learning how to write was filling the ink pens and cleaning up the mess afterwards. :giggle: Yes, we had wooden desks with inkwell holes in them for our little bottles of ink. We also had to bring fountain pens and blotter cards to school for our penmanship class. It was really messy for the poor lefties.

I don't recall us falling behind scholastically just because we took penmanship training. :lol:
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You really had a cooler childhood life than I did because the later half of my childhood life was like this

I'm still hunting for a very good fountain pen.
 
Reba said:
It doesn't require a lot of time, and they aren't doing it in high school classes. :lol:

Once they learn how to write cursively, they save time later in their note writing because cursive is faster.

I transferred from an East Coast school to a West Coast school in the middle of the second grade. The West Coast students had already learned how to write in cursive but I hadn't even started. The teacher didn't want to hold things up, so she gave me the cursive writing text book and told me to learn on my own time. Which I did. It didn't take up too much time.

The most time-consuming part of learning how to write was filling the ink pens and cleaning up the mess afterwards. :giggle: Yes, we had wooden desks with inkwell holes in them for our little bottles of ink. We also had to bring fountain pens and blotter cards to school for our penmanship class. It was really messy for the poor lefties.

I don't recall us falling behind scholastically just because we took penmanship training. :lol:
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LOL! I dated two left-handed women in the past (at different times of course, sheesh). Their palms had perpetual blue or black smudges on them.

But to the rest of your post, I say meh. The world is changing very rapidly. Pretty soon, laptops will be required in the classroom at all levels (once all you old fuddy duddies retire and let the young blood take over teaching completely :))

There will always be pens and paper, but cursive is a device of the past, like the spinning Jenny or the cotton gin. It had it's time, but it's no longer efficient or even useful.
 
TheWriteAlex said:
...But to the rest of your post, I say meh. The world is changing very rapidly. Pretty soon, laptops will be required in the classroom at all levels (once all you old fuddy duddies retire and let the young blood take over teaching completely :))
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I'm not a teacher, and I've never been opposed to technology. I just don't see why technology and classical ways are supposed to be oppositional. One doesn't have to cancel out the other; they can be compatible.

Just because I started out with a manual typewriter and have used every generation computer since the early 70's (not including the one I made in junior high), doesn't mean I'm against the latest and greatest computers. If money were no object, I wouldn't mind getting a new computer every time one came out. Right now, I'm keyboarding on my MacBookPro, which is a far cry from my Tandy with the magnetic tape programs. (I took BASIC, COBOL and FORTRAN in college, so I know a little bit about programming and debugging.) My neighbor comes to me with her iPad problems after the Geek at BestBuy couldn't fix it (which I did fix). I'm not a Luddite. That doesn't mean every time something new pops up we have to throw out the old stuff or the old ways.
 
I am envisioning "QWERTY Typing" being placed on Endangered List when I'm middle-age.... :hmm:
 
Jiro said:
You really had a cooler childhood life than I did because the later half of my childhood life was like this

I'm still hunting for a very good fountain pen.
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Most of the fountain pens have ink cartridges now. I used to enjoy using my first fountain pen. The mechanics of it fascinated me. Pulling down the little lever and watching it slurp up the ink in the tube. It was so cool. And a real fountain pen seemed so sophisticated to a little kid. :giggle:
 
Reba said:
Most of the fountain pens have ink cartridges now. I used to enjoy using my first fountain pen. The mechanics of it fascinated me. Pulling down the little lever and watching it slurp up the ink in the tube. It was so cool. And a real fountain pen seemed so sophisticated to a little kid. :giggle:
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yep. and lot of fountain pens have other type of ink cartridge that lets you refill it old-fashioned way. On top of cartridge is a knob where you turn it to suck in ink.
 
Jiro said:
yep. and lot of fountain pens have other type of ink cartridge that lets you refill it old-fashioned way. On top of cartridge is a knob where you turn it to suck in ink.
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Like a flex-fuel pen, ha, ha.

One of our church members, a young guy, makes fountain pens as a hobby and small business. He makes the body of the pens out of fine woods. They make beautiful gifts. I think his use cartridges.
 
Reba said:
Like a flex-fuel pen, ha, ha.

One of our church members, a young guy, makes fountain pens as a hobby and small business. He makes the body of the pens out of fine woods. They make beautiful gifts. I think his use cartridges.
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that's what I'm looking for. A nice "rustic-looking" pen made out of wood that looks like it has been used by author for years.

me no likey these modern/marble/metal pen
 
I did quite a bit of handwiriting while in school. It was mostly taking notes during class. Much easier and more effective than doing so on a laptop. In most cases, laptops are limited to text notes and there were many times I needed to draw graphs and do other things that would be much more difficult on a laptop. A simple pen and paper v a laptop...no question as to what I would choose to take notes with.
 
Reba said:
They were using them for kindergarten and lower elementary students. The upper grade students use laptops and PCs.

If they can afford it, it's OK. It's not cheap technology. The schools are very high tech but the restrooms don't have soap, paper towels, or toilet paper, and they have to lay off teachers. Go figure.
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The restroom at public schools are VERY UNIMPRESSIVE because in my old high school, there were cheap paper towel and one ply toilet paper. Some restroom has soap bars, some has none at all, UGH, even it isn't high tech either.
 
Foxrac said:
The restroom at public schools are VERY UNIMPRESSIVE because in my old high school, there were cheap paper towel and one ply toilet paper. Some restroom has soap bars, some has none at all, UGH, even it isn't high tech either.
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ah.... the restrooms.... love those vile writings on the walls :lol:
 
I had to use the girls' bathroom one time because the teacher's restrooms were used...and I was impressed that one of the students used the proofreading marks I taught in class to correct the English of another student's writing. I was beaming with pride...secretly, of course.
 
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