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My sig is cursive, but I print everything else.
Just wondering... I was sitting in a long meeting today, and whereas I usually doodle during these meetings I decided to try writing cursive again. It's been almost 20 years since I wrote anything but my signature in cursive.
With computers and all, is this still part of elementary school curriculum?
My sig is cursive, but I print everything else.
Yes they do still require cursive writing, but there is not as much of a demand to know it as before. My 11 yr old fifth grader can barely write in cursive.
don't know, but i know ebonics is thriving.
They learn it, but neither of my kids write in cursive.
I write in half print half cursive.
and the taks test....
Of course. Damn. . . . . Monkey- . sucker Mother er... these are all cursive words I learned in school.
i think they focus more on keyboarding these days.
My cursive looks like I'm writing with the wrong hand in a language I don't speak, with Parkinson's.
No, they don't.
That was one of the first things I noticed when I first started teaching in Middle School. The kids don't know anything about cursive and they hardly know how to write in print.
It's pathetic.
But, the elementary teachers choose not to teach it because they have to teach the TAKS.
My kids have been taught it but it's not required to use it. They do emphasize keyboarding alot. An occupational therapist friend of mine (she teaches writing to rehab patients) says the reason they aren't using it anymore is because teachers don't have time to watch EVERY kid make EVERY stroke correctly, so the writing all turns out looking like chicken scratch anyway, so why not just let them print?
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If teachers would be allowed to do some actual teaching, there would be plenty of time for that.
Can't argue with that.
I learned cursive in grade school. For the most part I always write in cursive.
what the is cursive??
As a rule of thumb, men are supposed to write in small caps. That is, unless you are studying to be a doctor, in which case use illegible chicken scratch that looks kind of like Arabic.
My son (5th grader) has been doing his practice assignments for it ... so I'm assuming they do, at least in Judson ISD.
Just curious Spurminator, have you sent any thank you notes, Christmas cards with personal notes, etc. over the past 20 years?
I print fairly fast, but it does not exceed the speed of writing in cursive...so I'm just curious. Given... I think people these days tend to use thumbs & fingers for keyboard or smartphone for most of their written communication.
I haven't used cursive in many years -- since high school at least, and even then I printed most papers. I recently had an occasion to write something in cursive (other than my signature) and found that I couldn't actually remember how to make some of the letters.
i remember cursive.
i dont use it anymore. i hated those nuns for making me learn that.
I write in cursive all of the time.
Nobody on my side of my immediate family writes in cursive. Like I said, my writing is a mixture, but if I actually want someone to be able to read what I wrote, I print.If you look up chicken scratch in the dictionary, there's a picture of my mom's print next to it.
My husband writes in cursive mostly, but I have a hard time reading it. I wish son #2 wrote in cursive as it's neater than his printing.
Yeah, but I always print... When I have to write a lot, and fast, I have sort of developed a print/cursive hybrid where my printed letters connect in some cases, but it's not the cursive I learned in 3rd grade.
That's exactly how my cursive is!
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