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[Noel7]

Just a reminder, but this topic is not about writing in cursive.

And hopefully, no one else will resort to name calling or personal attack.

[RoughDraft]

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@Noel7 wrote:

Just a reminder, but this topic is not about writing in cursive.

And hopefully, no one else will resort to name calling or personal attack.

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And just as I was about to post something about translating heiroglyphics!  

[Noel7]

LOL, RD!

[RoughDraft]

I forgot to add, I can write in Gregg.  I never learned Pitman!  

[YorkieonmyPillow]

I should know better by now.

Sigh......

[MyGirlsMom]

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@YorkieonmyPillow wrote:

I should know better by now.

Sigh......

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[Anonymous]

Please stay on topic and respect each others opinions 

[Burnsite]

My sister is a math teacher working with grades 5-8.  She would like to have a "cursive club" or some such name after school for students who want to learn it. Her school is more or less against the idea, though.

She is already teaching interested students (during lunch recess) how to jump rope to the old songs that used to be sung while playing jump-rope. She uses the jumping to reinforce some math skills in counting and to form the basis of some of her problems she sets in her classes.

That's working out well, I hear, esp. with the students who come into the class having learned some algorithms or memorized the time-tables but who have never thought on a basic level about counting skills as a way to approach solving lots of problems.

I think there may be too much focus on setting a (low) bar for student achievements, as teachers such as my sister tend to achieve their good results by working creatively with the mandated material rather than just letting the pre-planned teachers' guides determine the testing. 

Edited to clarify:  I'm not criticizing the teachers who follow all mandated activities--when it comes down to documenting their students' achievement, it is the way to go. 

My sister would be in trouble if audited--if her students went on to do poorly in high school math.  But her results are actually pretty amazing, so she gets to do as she wishes (as long as it works).

To answer yorkie's question, I think the idea is that cursive takes sooo much time, that a club isn't quite the venue--and that in a classroom it takes sooo much time that might be used for skills more fundamental to success in life.

I can see their point, but why not give the children a little insight into how to read it? 

Producing a good cursive hand took me forever--I am glad mine is nice looking but it's not an essential skill any more. Today, keyboard skills are much more important in going from elementary to higher levels of learning.

[MyGirlsMom]

Declaration pf Independence

http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/declaration_transcript.html

Bill of Rights

http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/bill_of_rights_transcript.html

Articles of Federation

http://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/ourdocs/articles.html

Emancipation Proclamation

https://www.archives.gov/exhibits/featured_documents/emancipation_proclamation/

13th Amendment

http://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/ourdocs/13thamendment.html

U.S. Constitution

http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/constitution_transcript.html

In plain and simple text.

[hsawaknow]

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@MyGirlsMom wrote:

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@YorkieonmyPillow wrote:

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@MyGirlsMom wrote:

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@YorkieonmyPillow wrote:

Here is a list of a few important documents written in cursive:

Declaration of Independence
Bill Of Rights
Articles of Confederation
Emancipation Proclamation
13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution: Abolition of Slavery
Constitution of the United States

  I would want to be able to READ such documents myself, instead of having someone else "explain" them to me

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They were also written with a quill, should we go back to that?

if authors on the past had a choice between writing with a pen and using a keyboard, I'm positive, they would choose a keyboard.

I'm not about to ask my mechanic, cable guy, telephone tech, customer service rep, doctor, nurse, engineer, or lawyer if they write in cursive before utilizing their services.

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Your response is argumentative, illogical, and has nothing to do with my post.

If a person hopes to be educated, they need to be able to read historical documents, especially documents like the ones I mentioned.

I don't know of any logical reason why children should not be taught cursive handwriting.

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Here's a little sumthin' sumthin; fer ya...historical documents have been reprinted and can be read not in it's original form.  LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

No one HAS TO read the original documents in their original form.  The bible is a prime example.

No one posted children should not be taught cursive writing, it's just not important as YOU think it is. 

bwahahahaha

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The bible was written in greek, hebrew, aramic, and a lot of those words got lost in translation. We speak english, but not the same english as England. There is a difference.