Cursive was the biggest waste of time in grade school. 90s curriculum still had it and I hated it.
Touch typing is being lost even in an all digital age, and I think that is a way bigger concern.
Typing is way more important. Two decades later I can still 100wpm blind even though I use an actual keyboard less often. The average kid these days cannot accurately break 30-40wpm and take away predictive/context typing and their spelling goes out the door
I say this as someone who loves and owns multiple fountain pens. The amount of time needed for good penmanship is higher than learning a language. Cursive is irrelevant.
The real issue is literacy, let's make sure students can read before we worry about floofy letters
Correlation does not equal causation. Cursive is definitely good to know for a slew of reasons, but you're not going to be illiterate if you don't know it.
That comment is straight out of pharma's playbook. We're not talking about vaccines.
Teaching cursive teaches a method of creative learning. That creative learning creates new unique pathways in the brain. Each new pathway opens other creative learning opportunities.
Everyone has their own unique signature, right? Less creative learning (cursive) equals a step to dumbing down the masses
"That comment is straight out of pharma's playbook."
No, it's a fact. We can't blame people being dumber because everyone isn't taught cursive anymore. The reason cursive isn't being taught is because it's largely irrelevant. Cursive was invented to write quickly and efficiently, since all communications are electronic now, cursive is obsolete. You don't see people being taught how to use typewriters, telegrams or fax in school for the same reason. Even paper checks are slowly starting to become obsolete!
Once again, I'm very much in favor of cursive being taught. But let's pump the brakes on the pearl clutching regarding cursive being essential to creative and unique children.
Cursive was the biggest waste of time in grade school. 90s curriculum still had it and I hated it.
Touch typing is being lost even in an all digital age, and I think that is a way bigger concern.
Typing is way more important. Two decades later I can still 100wpm blind even though I use an actual keyboard less often. The average kid these days cannot accurately break 30-40wpm and take away predictive/context typing and their spelling goes out the door
I say this as someone who loves and owns multiple fountain pens. The amount of time needed for good penmanship is higher than learning a language. Cursive is irrelevant.
The real issue is literacy, let's make sure students can read before we worry about floofy letters
Cursive went away and literacy goes down. Maybe not a direct relationship but probably related.
Hot take that disrupts the circle jerk within this thread: literacy is down for other reasons other than "we stopped teaching cursive".
Maybe because we don't encourage reading comprehension anymore.
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I do believe you are bang on .
Correlation does not equal causation. Cursive is definitely good to know for a slew of reasons, but you're not going to be illiterate if you don't know it.
That comment is straight out of pharma's playbook. We're not talking about vaccines.
Teaching cursive teaches a method of creative learning. That creative learning creates new unique pathways in the brain. Each new pathway opens other creative learning opportunities. Everyone has their own unique signature, right? Less creative learning (cursive) equals a step to dumbing down the masses
"That comment is straight out of pharma's playbook."
No, it's a fact. We can't blame people being dumber because everyone isn't taught cursive anymore. The reason cursive isn't being taught is because it's largely irrelevant. Cursive was invented to write quickly and efficiently, since all communications are electronic now, cursive is obsolete. You don't see people being taught how to use typewriters, telegrams or fax in school for the same reason. Even paper checks are slowly starting to become obsolete!
Once again, I'm very much in favor of cursive being taught. But let's pump the brakes on the pearl clutching regarding cursive being essential to creative and unique children.
The part always left out is, "yes, but without correlation no causation can ever be established."
But would you and others still not be able to read documents and information that is written in cursive?
The part always left out is, "yes, but without correlation no causation can ever be established."
We had a typing class in 7'th grade which helped me tremendously in typing instead of hunt and peck for the letters. This was circa 1966.
Same here in 1974. It was an intensive summer class and I learned in 2 weeks. It was rough, but I was so proud of myself!
it is a good skill to learn.
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