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A New Jersey bill would require schoolchildren

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A New Jersey bill would require schoolchildren to be taught cursive handwriting


lifestyle | 207860 hits | Dec 09 9:43 am | Posted by: Strutz
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Should children be required to learn cursive? A New Jersey legislator says so.

Comments

  1. by avatar Strutz
    Mon Dec 09, 2019 5:50 pm
    I can't believe schools stopped teaching cursive writing to begin with.

  2. by avatar CharlesAnthony
    Mon Dec 09, 2019 6:02 pm
    Without a mastery of cursive, youngsters are deprived of the ability to read historical documents.

  3. by avatar BartSimpson  Gold Member
    Mon Dec 09, 2019 11:23 pm
    "CharlesAnthony" said
    Without a mastery of cursive, youngsters are deprived of the ability to read historical documents.


    Which could be the reason to make sure the kids are ignorant.

  4. by avatar GreenTiger
    Tue Dec 10, 2019 4:02 am
    I agree, we are doing a colossal disservice to children by not teaching cursive handwriting. How will they be able to read any handwritten document from the past. They won?t, they will be at a real disadvantage.

  5. by avatar xerxes
    Tue Dec 10, 2019 6:12 am
    I hate to be this guy, but there are these things called transcriptions where people don't have to read old timey writing. Personally, I write mostly in cursive, I'm used to it and I still find older texts hard to read. Not too many people know anymore that two ss were written as a lowercase F.

    Forget cursive writing. Teach the kids to spell and write properly first. If they master that, then teach cursive writing. Otherwise it's just wasted effort.

  6. by avatar BeaverFever
    Tue Dec 10, 2019 10:20 am
    You don�t have to be taught cursive in order to read cursive. We can all read calligraphy despite not being taught it.

    I�d be open to the suggestion that teaching cursive somehow helps teach the fundamentals of reading, writing or language (if anyone is attempting to make that argument) but as a technical skill it is obsolete.

  7. by avatar CDN_PATRIOT
    Tue Dec 10, 2019 12:28 pm
    "Strutz" said
    I can't believe schools stopped teaching cursive writing to begin with.


    Me neither. Way back when I was in grade school, we not only learned cursive writing, but several styles of calligraphy as well.

    :idea:

    -J.

  8. by avatar raydan
    Tue Dec 10, 2019 2:07 pm
    I was so pissed when I learned that my kids wouldn't be taught to do math in school with an abacus. :evil:

  9. by avatar DrCaleb
    Tue Dec 10, 2019 2:09 pm
    Perhaps they could be taught Latin too, just to fully round out their "useless skills" set?

  10. by housewife
    Tue Dec 10, 2019 3:34 pm
    They took out cursive writing but didn�t add keyboard skills. They just put a computer in front of them then watch the hunt and peck

  11. by avatar CDN_PATRIOT
    Tue Dec 10, 2019 4:05 pm
    "BeaverFever" said
    It is obsolete.


    Does that mean *Mod Edit*?



    Asking for a friend.




    -J.

  12. by avatar DrCaleb
    Tue Dec 10, 2019 4:07 pm
    Watch the personal insults there.

  13. by avatar PluggyRug
    Tue Dec 10, 2019 4:23 pm
    It also improves hand to eye coordination and motor skills.

  14. by Thanos
    Tue Dec 10, 2019 6:12 pm
    How about instituting a class, going from grade 1 thru 12, that consists of nothing more than "turn off the screens and read a goddamn book, you little shitheads".



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