Cursive writing not taught anymore - Page 5

Katrinka23 · ‎03-11-2010

@jlkz wrote:
@Katrinka23

I think you mean the Palmer Method style for cursive. Every Friday after lunch in second ( or third ) grade, we had a half hour practice session on cursive.

All our spelling tests were done in cursive.

Language tests were done in cursive.

No I mean the Peterson method --- look it up!!!

Big Joanie · ‎01-02-2015

@beach-mom wrote:
This is so sad. I'm glad my children came through before all of these changes happened. Well, DS was finishing when they started.

My late brother was left handed. A few of his teachers forced him to write with his right hand. Until the day he died (in his 20's) his handwriting was almost illegible. I'm glad they stopped that practice, but this problem might be even worse.

When my son as a baby started to favor his left hand .. my

in-laws said you have to force him to use his right hand ..

as a young mother I thought they knew best .. now I know

better ... I feel so bad .. he can hardly right ... he can

write cursive ... and it is illegible ... then I thought .. oh no

wait a minute .. his father is the same way .. I am sure now

they did the same thing to him .... I am also glad those

days are over .... and his daughter is happily left handed .....

foxywoods · ‎05-28-2010

When I was in grade school we had a Penmanship Teacher. This person was contracted by the school to come every spring to teach us Peroper Penmanship. I always got bad grades because I could not make perfect letters at the perfect slant connected by the perfect swirls and swooshes. My hand and arm doesnt work that way.

I could draw horses and portraits and paint and create. I could never color inside the lines. I hated coloring books and I hated cursive because I sucked at it. You cannot make a square peg fit into a round hole.

Neetgal2 · ‎02-12-2016

I just addressed Thanksgiving day cards to my two granddaughters today. The five year-old, I printed, she is in kindergarten. The nine year-old in fourth grade I wrote in cursive, however she has been taught cursive, but they do not insist they use it. 🤷🏻‍♀️

I will anxiously await to see if the older one can read it. I did write in each card how thankful I was to have them! 😂

Unfortunately, the only thing they would probably notice is there is not a check in the Thanksgiving day card, like the birthday cards!

shoekitty · ‎03-10-2010

I had my 18 year old granddaughter go through some letters my dad and mom wrote during WWII. Lot of history in them. I wanted to her sort them according to certain catagories I had stipulated. lol she came to me often to read to her words. Then she said she she had hard time with cursive, and telling time that wasn't digital. Omg, what were school boards thinking. More work now. Who would have thunk it with the voting issue. Talk about blow back. And she has a 4.0 GOA first year at state college

“sometimes you have to bite your upper lip and put sunglasses on”….Bob Dylan

Puppy Lips · ‎05-09-2010

I guess I can see why that skill is no longer needed. It is not a hard leap to read cursive if you only know printing, so I don’t think it will be a detriment. I worked the election on Tuesday and we had to compare signatures. I can tell you that MANY adults have a signature scribble such that you have no idea what their name is. I don’t mean just poor handwriting. I mean lines or a scribble that in no way resembles any English letters. Some signed their drivers license that way.

Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else. Margaret Mead

Love my grandkids · ‎11-24-2013

@songbird Interesting. I'm 76 and a lefty. Never had trouble with cursive!

Love my grandkids · ‎11-24-2013

@Big Joanie I'm 76 and a lefty. I grew up in So. Cal. and went to Catholic schools. No one tried to change me to my right hand. My parents would have raised holy hell if that had been tried. I feel sorry for anyone who got that treatment.

Puggywuggy · ‎04-19-2022

Both of my parents are left handed but my mother had my brother and I learn to write with our right hand because she was ridiculed for her penmanship in school.

P.S. Both of my granddaughters are in private school and were taught cursive writing.

rms1954 · ‎06-06-2019

@mormel20 wrote:
I knew that schools no longer teach cursive. But l was amazed they can't sign their own names. I heard on the news that in the recent election the young voters could only print their names on the ballot because they we never taught to sign. Sad and a shame.

Schools don't teach a lot of things they should.