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In reply to the discussion: The problem with you kids today is that you don't write in cursive [View all]Ms. Toad
(34,069 posts)The worst idea ever.
I was completely in your camp completely until you got to what sounds to me like a generic description of D'Nealian writing. They taught that garbage to my daughter. It is much slower to write with than cursive, and adds time to anyone who ultimately does something other than cursive as an adult, so it still ultimately ends up with the student learning two (and sometimes 3) systems of writing: D'Nealian plus at least one of either cursive or printing - I don't know anyone who is willing to accept, long term, the time disadvantage of the neither-printing-nor-cursive system over the one which ends up being a personal long term preference.
And - when the child does move to one or the other, s/he either writes very awkwardly (as my daughter does nearly 20 years later - making many print strokes in the backwards direction) or has to relearn stroke flow, since D'Nelian flow matches neither printing nor cursive.