My DGD will in be third grade next year. They went in to meet the teacher they will have next year and found out they will be learning cursive. DD is very happy about that. DD was going to teach her cursive at home if they did not teach it at her school.
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I have a sister-in-law who has printed everything since I've known her (about 40plus years) I have no idea what her handwriting looks like. I think printing takes a lot longer.
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Quiltsrfun, That was funny!
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Originally Posted by cashs_mom
(Post 8047792)
That was the first thing I thought of, Lori. Then my next thought was how sad it was that they could never read historical documents in their original form. I hope they do bring it back.
Originally Posted by SusieQOH
(Post 8047854)
I have a sister-in-law who has printed everything since I've known her (about 40plus years) I have no idea what her handwriting looks like. I think printing takes a lot longer.
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Originally Posted by SusieQOH
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I have a sister-in-law who has printed everything since I've known her (about 40plus years) I have no idea what her handwriting looks like. I think printing takes a lot longer.
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It is making a comeback. I heard a podcast a while back and the woman said cursive helps in certain brain areas and in fine motor skills. This article says that too. I don't have a crystal ball, but, I'm thinking it will eventually work its way back. Interesting too, that when cursive was removed, keyboarding (or old time typing) didn't take it's place. At least at any of the schools I would know about. |
Originally Posted by selm
(Post 8047906)
During my first three years of elementary school I went to a system that taught only printing(they still do). Then I went to a system where I was taught cursive writing and have used that ever since. The people I know who learned in a "print" system write as fast or faster than people writing in cursive script. Don't know how they do it these days but I knew a boy once who couldn't sign up for the military until he could write his name cursively. So he had to go home and be taught how to do that.
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My daughter teaches 4th grade and she teaches cursive writing because the current studies show that it helps the mind with continuous thought. I saw the program today, it was on CBS This Morning, and the teacher arranged for the children to have pen pals at a senior center and the kids said they felt they could better envision the pen pal by using the cursive writing.
I am not so concerned about being able to sign their name in the future since most of that will be done through using finger prints photos. Most credit cards have the chips and no one checks signatures when using the chip here. But there is being able to have a continuous thought and finger dexterity. One thing my mother said she noticed when she got older was being able to write - her penmanship was getting worse. When you write - you move your hand - when you type you tend to rest your wrists below the keyboard. They don't teach typing at all in schools - no one needs it because by the time they get to school they have such bad habits, but they make it work for them, not to mention all the programs you can talk into and it writes it for you. |
Originally Posted by Quilter 53
(Post 8047784)
Just a thought... is it a signature if it's not in cursive?
In the work I did before I retired, we had to insure that the documents we handled had a signature in the required space, but we were not supposed to question the person about their signature |
Originally Posted by suern3
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It is my understanding that your signature is your signature, what ever that might be. I don't think anyone can tell you what it should look like. One example is a physician's signature, well known for being eligible. Some people make them eligible so they are hard to copy.
In the work I did before I retired, we had to insure that the documents we handled had a signature in the required space, but we were not supposed to question the person about their signature |
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