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on Wednesday November 02 2016, @08:33AM
from the heading-for-a-new-dark-age dept.
from the heading-for-a-new-dark-age dept.
The New Yorker wonders:
My children know how to print their letters. And they type frighteningly well. Still, I can't escape the conviction that cursive—writing it and knowing how to read it—represents some universal value. I'm not the only one who thinks so. Every year, there are worried articles about the decline of cursive and its omission from school curricula. And there's a backlash, one that I secretly cheer for. When I read that Washington state is now considering Senate Bill 6469, "an act related to requiring that cursive writing be taught in common schools," I gave a little fist pump in the air.
Cursive and handwriting are dead. Communication of the future will be done with pure emoticons.
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(Score: 5, Interesting) by TheRaven on Wednesday November 02 2016, @09:55AM
Exactly. My handwriting has always sucked. I spent several years having to do extra practice, fairly regularly missing break and lunchtimes to do it and having extra handwriting practice to do after school. My average grade in English was a C+ right up until age 14 when we were suddenly allowed to submit typed work. Then it jumped to an A, often A+, and with a very rare A-. It turns out that the first 10 years of my education not one single piece of written work was assessed based on my ability to form coherent thoughts, but solely on my ability to operate a pen.
Fast forward a decade or two and I now type in a typical day more than I write with a pen in a typical year. I've had four books published, around 200 articles, written undergraduate and PhD dissertations. Not once have I felt the lack of penmanship to be an obstacle since completing my undergraduate degree (where exams were hand written).
By all means, teach calligraphy in art classes, but please move on from a world where we teach one form of written communication in school and then use a completely different one for everything else in life.
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(Score: 2) by blackhawk on Wednesday November 02 2016, @01:33PM
Well, that sucks dogs dicks as they say over here. I went through Australasian education for 20 years, and although my marks on 'Handwriting' were almost always 'C' or worse, my marks for 'English' were 'A' or 'A+'. You'd have benefited greatly from having sane teachers like we have over here.
(Score: 2) by coolgopher on Wednesday November 02 2016, @10:03PM
A C+ average in English? You should have taken a programming class so you could've gotten a C++ there!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 03 2016, @08:56PM
++C is faster.