Cursive handwriting
#61
it must be a regional thing- i checked and all of the local schools here still teach cursive- my granddaugters, neices and nephews are all still learning to read and write (hand writing) and a couple of them (2nd & 3rd graders) happen to have BEAUTIFUL PENMANSHIP!
so it's not everywhere that it's not being taught---thank goodness!
so it's not everywhere that it's not being taught---thank goodness!
#63
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Location: Alturas, CA
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This is probably why if the younger generation do "write", it's actually more like chicken scratching. Regardless of the fact that they don't necessarily have to write checks, etc., there are many instances where you DO need to know how to write.Not everything can be done on the computer, what a shame.
#64
I'm the college class of 2014, and most of the students in my class cannot handwrite, unless it's printing. I can do handwriting, but I'm also about 3 to 5 years older than my classmates (I'm 23). It's not always legible, but that is only when I'm writing quickly. I plan on teaching my children when I have them and my niece too... I think it's a valuable asset to have.
#65
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No cursive writing here...I have a friend who still teaches and she can't even do an art project unless it is included in the Readng First curriculum. I know many parents who are now homeschooling, or sending their kids to private(Christian) schools because of this mess. It is not the Teachers, they do what they are told. It is state and federal laws and programs that have brought about the mess we are in...
#67
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Location: north Alabama
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My cursive writing is a LOT more legible than my printing! I asked our 6-yr-old great-niece if cursive is being taught in our small county school here, and she said no, not anymore. Such a shame, but she is so intelligent and ready to learn, that I think we can teach her here when she visits (she gets to spend one or two nights with us on most weekends. We have so much fun with her, and since we never had any children, we think of her as our granddaughter!)
#68
My cursive writing is a LOT more legible than my printing! I asked our 6-yr-old great-niece if cursive is being taught in our small county school here, and she said no, not anymore. Such a shame, but she is so intelligent and ready to learn, that I think we can teach her here when she visits (she gets to spend one or two nights with us on most weekends. We have so much fun with her, and since we never had any children, we think of her as our granddaughter!)
#69
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Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: Sweet Home Alabama
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Our granddaughter has learned cursive in school. She writes very neatly and reads it very well. They have their computer labs, etc too and I sometimes have to ask her for computer help. She's 11 now but learned cursive 2 or 3 years ago.
#70
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Location: Myrtle Beach, SC
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My husband and most of the family are math majors - it really doesn't matter if you use a calculator or not - the point is to know the equation of figuring the math problem. Do you multiply - do you divide, etc etc. My 6th grade granddaughter tries to teach me "new math" when I visit. She knows all the concepts - has she memorized? NO But she is a straight A student in excelled Math. I can't do it!
Last year, my now 8 year old grandson, who is very bright, very advanced academically, and who I was homeschooling, told me he was smarter than me. Then he offered to prove it IF I would only give him the calculator. My response? "That will tell me how smart the calculator is!"
He was shocked. I wrote out some math addition problems, starting with adding 2 single digit numbers like 9 + 5, then went to adding 2 double digit numbers, like 25 + 37. He did fine on the single digit numbers, but without fail started adding the double digit numbers from the left most column. When I told him his answers were wrong and why, he asked me for the calculator so that he could show me that he was right.
He got the second shock of the morning. The calculator agreed with MY answers, not his! We spent the afternoon learning how to add from right to left and then checking his answers with the calculator.
The next day we had an almost identical learning experience with subtraction!
The next week, he again told me that he was smarter than me and didn't need to do schoolwork. I considered that for about 1/2 a second, then asked him, "If you're smarter than me, then why am I teaching you?"
Stunned silence. Then, resigned to his fate, he started the school day.
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