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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]CreekDog
(46,192 posts)65. i think you are in a 20-years-ago mindset, sorry to say
the idea that we would teach an entire way of writing which is really just for fountain pens, which is harder to read, only to use on essay tests that will soon be on computer, if they aren't already --that's ridiculous.
but where i know that you are completely wrong, is that you blame schools. if most are deciding it shouldn't be taught because there are other things to teach --that's a choice not a try and fail thing.
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There are good, cognitive reasons for cursive with regards to language processing.
politicat
Jun 2013
#2
+1 & People don't know that physical actions have physical STRUCTURAL effects upon the neurons
patrice
Jun 2013
#31
I don't think it's a reasonable system, I just don't think it's the script of Satan.
politicat
Jun 2013
#70
Why didn't she write in whatever script she writes in? Or doesn't she write at all?
FarCenter
Jun 2013
#16
no matter her reading and writing skills, what matters is that she is a witness to what happened
CreekDog
Jun 2013
#24
To enter a writing as evidence, you need a witness to testify that it is genuine and unaltered
FarCenter
Jun 2013
#36
it's pretty arbitrary of you to say that a printed signature is less than a cursive signature
CreekDog
Jun 2013
#33
The NC state legislature passed a bill requiring cursive be taught in schools.
alarimer
Jun 2013
#49