I still consider it further watering down of the curriculum. And for the most part - you can't read it because you don't write it. There was always a morsel of truth in Dad's old bit about "I can't read writin'. I can only read readin'." And even though he got into the engineer's habit of printing - in all caps... his script is really quite lovely. Whilst - we'll be raising a generation of children who can't sign their own names.
Though we'll leave the general bass-ackwardness of lefties for another day. :-P
At that, I can probably write faster than you can print. The whole point of cursive scripts is speed. That's why period scripts routinely start as a nearly typeface-styled form, and gradually morph into conjoined forms that could be written more quickly. The current thinking is that nobody writes at all anymore. Which I would take issue with, at least to a degree.
Frankly, I'd rather my kids spent their time in school learning cursive than studying the new "social studies" books loaded with revisionist history and political correctness. Or "environmental science," which would be more accurately termed "statistical voodoo." I long for the day when the MEA can be pried off the reins of public school programming. Most of them don't want to teach cursive because it requires effort on their part. Which they're against.
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Re: Cursive
Date: 2009-12-01 07:22 pm (UTC)Though we'll leave the general bass-ackwardness of lefties for another day. :-P
At that, I can probably write faster than you can print. The whole point of cursive scripts is speed. That's why period scripts routinely start as a nearly typeface-styled form, and gradually morph into conjoined forms that could be written more quickly. The current thinking is that nobody writes at all anymore. Which I would take issue with, at least to a degree.
Frankly, I'd rather my kids spent their time in school learning cursive than studying the new "social studies" books loaded with revisionist history and political correctness. Or "environmental science," which would be more accurately termed "statistical voodoo." I long for the day when the MEA can be pried off the reins of public school programming. Most of them don't want to teach cursive because it requires effort on their part. Which they're against.