Stupid ? about teaching cursive - Page 13

sissel · ‎08-13-2010

Do you know celebrities have 2 signatures? When they sign for fans that a different handwriting than they do for legal papers. Think it is for forgery. Notice stores you put in your charge & no signature required I was at Costco did $200 put in the charge not signing. Scares me if I lose my charges anyone can add up the bill. No signing anymore.

sissel · ‎08-13-2010

Even my grocery store with my charge no signing well my soon to be SIL said last year oh Santa writes cursive, I said yes he does cuz Santa has no time for printing in caps cuz that is all Santa knows in his generation. Enjoy the gifts you know which goes to whom. LOL don't mess with me! He loves to do it.

sunshine45 · ‎03-09-2010

@sissel wrote:
Do you know celebrities have 2 signatures? When they sign for fans that a different handwriting than they do for legal papers. Think it is for forgery. Notice stores you put in your charge & no signature required I was at Costco did $200 put in the charge not signing. Scares me if I lose my charges anyone can add up the bill. No signing anymore.

not exactly a celebrity, but i have posted this before.

steven mnuchin (secretary of the treasury)

his REAL OG signature

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"The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing." - Albert Einstein

Shorty2U · ‎03-09-2010

I have 3 grandchildren 21, 19, and 15. The 21 yr old had cursive, 19 yr old had it very briefly (weeks!) and couldn't sign her name. 15 yr old never had cursive, couldn't sign her name. I taught them how when i used to babysit them part time.. PS everything is done on computers now. They do NOT write at all. The school gives them laptops with their work on! (ridiculous!) And even though I taught the 2 younger ones, they more or less print and connect the letters with lines to sign their names. I might add, my oldest granddaughter used cursive her entire time in school to study. She would write everything down and that helped her memorize. She was an honor student. So yes, they need to teach cursive again because it helps and everyone has to sign documents! It gets me mad that they stopped it!

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Annabellethecat66 · ‎03-12-2010

@ I think it is stupid that cursive wasn’t taught. My daughter, I believe told me now they’re back to teaching cursive where we live.

I remember once when I was checking out at Walmart the checker said her son called her from college. He was supposed to sign his name to something and he didn’t know how.

She told him to print his name and draw lines connecting the letters.

My daughter hired a tutor to teach my grandson how to write his name. She tried to teach him and was pulling out her hair. It was money well-spent. Ha!

My other grandson went to Catholic school and he learned how to write his name before his older brother.

Who remembers when some idiot thought classrooms without walls was a good idea? Yepper, that lasted one year...what a mess!

My daughter is big on going to the DC museums. The kid couldn’t read the cursive articles! That’s when she hired the tutor.

I guarantee you all of those tech people in Silicon Vally’s kids Can write cursive.

I read that most of their kids go to schools where computers are used sparingly.

My son in law’s brother owned one of those tech companies and lives there...his kids write cursive.

Can you tell I think that was yet another dumb idea?

sissel · ‎08-13-2010

this is too much now, we don't sign on charges, thought when you buy a house or legal doc you need cursive guess not. not use to all of it. If it works then go with it but legal stuff thought get it in writing no printing. Remember when we needed birth cert. or dr. lic guess that is gone too. Do we just not need info doc's anymore?

Mj12 · ‎03-09-2010

@sissel wrote:
this is too much now, we don't sign on charges, thought when you buy a house or legal doc you need cursive guess not. not use to all of it. If it works then go with it but legal stuff thought get it in writing no printing. Remember when we needed birth cert. or dr. lic guess that is gone too. Do we just not need info doc's anymore?

When we closed on our house we used DocuSign for e-signatures.

tf · ‎04-08-2010

My kids go to private and learn it in 2nd grade. 5th grade it's only cursive. No tablets or ipads either but work is much much harder than when I went. No special treatment for anything or extra credit. Homework not done or test and homework book not signed you stay in for recess. Even has to memorize presentations starting in 5th. Little extreme in my eyes. They like writing in cursive but times change. Wish I could find a school with a happy medium today.

suzyQ3 · ‎03-09-2010

@sissel wrote:
this is too much now, we don't sign on charges, thought when you buy a house or legal doc you need cursive guess not. not use to all of it. If it works then go with it but legal stuff thought get it in writing no printing. Remember when we needed birth cert. or dr. lic guess that is gone too. Do we just not need info doc's anymore?

We still need them, @sissel

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