Cursive writing is not being taught in much of America.

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Cyrano (14,909 posts)

Cursive writing is not being taught in much of America.
Cursive writing (longhand writing) is no longer being taught in schools in many states. Children are taught to print, (capital and lower case), and to use keyboards, but that's all. And this isn't happening in red states only. Some blue states have decided that being able to write the English language in longhand isn't important.

Perhaps it's just me, but I think this is insanity. If you can't write out the English language in longhand, how will you be able to read it?

The Declaration of Independence is written in longhand. The Constitution is written in longhand. Evidently, unless they read printed versions, these documents will be nothing more than encoded, "ancient" documents to much of Generation Z, and generations to come.

I can come up with countless reasons why it is important to retain cursive writing as part of our universal education. But I'd rather hear you thoughts on this. So I'm going to shut up and listen to your answers. I may even jot down a few notes here and there to your replies.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100218625510

Tell this to the rat teachers unions you love so much who are dumbing down kids.

[67 Rover]

We were told by democrats that cursive is racist just like everything else.

[Crazy Horse]

Though for the older people, this will become our own secret code from the youngsters

They are starting to teach cursive writing again herein eastern NC

[67 Rover]

Though for the older people, this will become our own secret code from the youngsters

They are starting to teach cursive writing again herein eastern NC

We could also resurrect analog clocks and rotary phones to really confuse the hell out of them. 

[Ralph Wiggum]

We could also resurrect analog clocks and rotary phones to really confuse the hell out of them. 

 

Man, they'd hate dialing that pesky 0 number, and even the 9.

And I wholeheartedly agree with the DUmmy. Cursive writing is a lost art, which most if not all of us learned in elementary school.

[Old n Grumpy]

When did it change from script to cursive and why are some people too stupid to understand?

[SVPete]

Ummmmmm, this was news and a topic of outrage on conservative discussion sites years ago (more than 10?). Nice to see a Prog site catching up a little, though with predictable pretzallation ("And this isn't happening in red states only.").

True (boring) bouncy ... in my junior or senior year of high school I switched back from cursive to printing. My cursive was slow AF and looked like a 4th Grader's handwriting. Within a few days my printing was faster than my cursive and 50+ years later I still print, because it works for me. HOWEVER, unlike some/many/most never taught cursive I can read cursive as well as the legibility of what was written.

[Old n Grumpy]

My writing is not so good so I just print, I learned how to print neatly in mechanical drawing classes, but my printing has deteriorated with my age..

I think mechanical drawing with paper and pencil has gone the way of the slide rule 

[ADsOutburst]

The Declaration of Independence is written in longhand. The Constitution is written in longhand. Evidently, unless they read printed versions, these documents will be nothing more than encoded, "ancient" documents to much of Generation Z, and generations to come.

I have good news: There are, in fact, printed versions.

As for the Declaration of Independence and Constitution potentially being regarded as "ancient", you can blame the left for promoting that very belief.

[Old n Grumpy]

I have good news: There are, in fact, printed versions.

As for the Declaration of Independence and Constitution potentially being regarded as "ancient", you can blame the left for promoting that very belief.

At first they considered them living documents, now they consider them dead

[DefiantSix]

At first they considered them living documents, now they consider them dead

Whatever verbiage it takes to get the proles to NOT consider them - especially in context of Dim'Rat governance - AT ALL.