ooooooookay...another reason to why stupidity is increasing AND ending the human race.
Because of a lack of cursive? Cursive is silly and useless.
I'm going to miss cursive. It's sad that people can't even read cursive writing anymore.
I remember when I was a kid I felt that I had "grown up" when I learned cursive writing--printing was for little kids.
Cursive writing is so much faster than printing. If I had to print everything it would take too long.
If people don't learn cursive writing, how will they sign their names to official documents?
Cursive kind of reminds me of old English. It's nice for people to be able to read it, but I certainly don't think it's a necessary skill (or for that matter, even necessarily
useful) that everyone should learn, by any means.
Yeah, the schools in Charleston got iPads for their students last year, too. They want to expand the program this coming school year. I think the first year iPads were donated by Apple.
This year's education, sponsored by Apple.
(Side note: I'm a huge fan of getting newer and better technology into the hands of children earlier. I am not a fan of this, though, any more than I was a fan of my college's software development program practically being "sponsored" by Microsoft and only teaching MS programming languages.)
So you do use a form of cursive, not block printed letters.
Isn't cursive a very rigid set of letters, the same way block printing is? For most people, I wouldn't think signatures would fall under either category, especially since for simplicity's sake, most signatures turn into essentially "letter, scribble, wiggle, hint of a letter". That's how mine is, at least. With the first letter being optional, lol.
I wonder how many future literary masterpieces they are denying us by doing this. I understand that Robin Moore (who wrote The Green Berets, among other things) wrote with his manuscript on top of a refrigerator, and Ernest Hemingway wrote standing at a lectern: he had dozens of pencils all sharpened and ready for use.
None.
We're busy killing
those off by teaching crap like this:
Gatsby without greatness - Roger Ebert's Journal
Just because they won't be learning cursive doesn't mean they can't still handwrite it if they choose. But I doubt our future literary geniuses will be writing out much by hand. They are children of the keyboard age.:P And they could always put a laptop on a lecturn if the want to type standing up.
I've read a surprisingly large number of articles about people who decided to go with standing desks for their day jobs that involve sitting (or in their case, standing) at a computer all day long.
I knew I was old when one of my high school students asked me what was a "typewriter."
Sigh.
So... what is it?
Come to think of it, we no longer have to teach how to write in various letter formats except for the email versions of the business letters. That's sad.
I love personal letters, handwritten and mailed (yes, snail mailed).
Instead, they should teach people how to properly write Facebook posts/comments and non-vitriolic comments on news stories.
Me too. I used to write a mail to friends... now, not anymore. =/
It's all in the delay. If we somehow invent teleporters that can fit in your mailbox and allow you to instantly mail something to anyone (and allow you to check your mail from anywhere) then you might see a small resurgence in that, but I'd still be surprised simply because of the waste involved (envelope, paper, etc).
Yep, snail mail letters are a thing of the past. Many times you are only asked to respond in email or by FAX.
Seriously? People still use fax, too?
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.
