can't read or write cursive - Page 17

LTT1 · ‎03-09-2010

this hilarious video deals with a guy and a girl (his wife)

the guy is trying to help Chelsea understand how long it would take you to go 80 miles if you are driving 80 miles per hour.

Oh just smh🤦🏼‍♀️

~Have a Kind Heart, Fierce Mind, Brave Spirit~

CrazyKittyLvr2 · ‎05-11-2013

Learned cursive in grade school beginning in 3rd grade I think.. In 6th grade we got fountain pens either red, blue or green. Mrs. Graham had a block of wood with holes and a seat number in front of each hole. We kept our pens there and when we had writing class we got our pens to do our cursive and practice our penmanship. Got to keep our pens at the end of the year. The school was a block from home and had 6 class rooms (1st thru 6th), a principal's office, nurse's' office and lunch room and bathrooms. I went to school with the same neighborhood kids for those 6 years. Great way to go up.

Still Raining · ‎03-30-2014

@hsawaknow wrote:
I have a friend who believes in conspiracies. He believes they no longer teach children to read and write cursive has to do with the declaration of independence and other formal documents that were written in cursive. As the generations die out, the children born in late 90's and forward will not know what they say, making them obsolete.

And they will not be able to read the man from mars instructions on the back of highway mile markers either.

sidsmom · ‎11-25-2011

@LTT1 wrote:
@kittyloo @debic @Nonametoday @GrailSeeker @Mersha
@Annabellethecat66

The difference between now and then. lol

1776:

2019:

Oh, TJeff, you

🤣

Nonametoday · ‎03-09-2010

@LTT1 wrote:
@Nonametoday

Here in Texas, the students have many courses (required) in history starting with US History in junior high and W GEO (f); W HISTORY (s); US HISTORY (j) then GOVT (sr).
They are tested with a yearly state assessment on every one of these courses.

@LTT1 That is good to know. Not the same where we live. The world --- it is a' changin'.

RollTide2008 · ‎02-14-2017

My children are 19 and 13. Both read and write cursive. Penmanship is not taught as rigorously as it was when I was in grade school in the early 80’s. Quite frankly, I’m glad. I remember many tears shed over recess spent doing and redoing a penmanship assignment because my teacher wouldn’t accept anything with an eraser mark.

lulu1 · ‎03-29-2011

@sfnative wrote:

And, this simply drives me crazy: when did educators STOP teaching students the difference in usage between the articles "a" and "an" and between "the" and "the(e)," written thusly for pronunciation purposes.

Examples:

Same rule with "the" and "the(e)."

The table is round.
The(e) apple had a worm in it.

I simply cannot believe that these rules of grammar have fallen off of the radar and have done so decades ago.

My husband and I have advanced degrees. Neither of us knew the, followed by a word beginning with a vowel, is pronounced thee.

Thirty plus years teaching, I cannot remember anyone (administrator, teacher, parent or student) saying thee.

vacationday · ‎01-29-2019

I married my childhood sweetheart and though he had better penmanship than me, I was the better student. He struggled in many subjects and I helped him but to this day he cannot read my writing and will ask me to print. We leave handwritten notes for one another and it's just something we've always done.

I can read his beautifully written cursive with no problem. In school, I too had no problem with writing legibly but day to day in practical terms, no, usually it's just chicken scratch.

When he asks me to print I will instead make a bigger effort to write slower in cursive as it bothers me that he can't read it.

jonbon · ‎03-09-2010

@LTT1 wrote:
@Nonametoday

Here in Texas, the students have many courses (required) in history starting with US History in junior high and W GEO (f); W HISTORY (s); US HISTORY (j) then GOVT (sr).
They are tested with a yearly state assessment on every one of these courses.

Yes -- high school graduation requirements for both of my kids have included four years of social studies (including geography, US history, world history, government, and economics), as well as four years of English, (at least) three years of math, (at least) three years of science, and three years of PE. There are also requirements for other areas, including technology and visual/performing arts. I don't even know of any districts around here that don't have similar requirements.