Pennsylvania to mandate Cursive handwriting

[luiza]

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Oh dear . Destroy that sample .
If you fall off the straight and narrow and psychiatrists and educational psychologists see that , you are taking a huge gamble .
If you have a family , put them first .

 

[JoeB131]

The number of young people who aren't literate as far as cursive handwriting is a disgrace IMHO.

Glad to see they are working on mandating this as part of the K-12 curriculum. Plenty of things they can cut to make room, like gender studies and evolution.

The nuns were very successful in the Catholic schools in this, and I think a lot of government school kids were literate in the past as well.

https://www.legis.state.pa.us/cfdoc...blic.cfm?chamber=H&*****=20230&cosponId=41861

why?

We would do far better teaching these kids to use a keyboard.

Cursive is as obsolete as buggy driving. Other than a signature (Mine looks like J-scribble, B Scribble) nobody writes in Cursive. They block print, type or text

 

[JoeB131]

I'd be perfectly fine with cursive going away. I learned to write it when I was young, but have always had great difficulty reading anything written in it, and even reading anything that I, myself had previously written in it. I find little value in a means of communication that is so difficult to read and understand.

I long ago gave up on cursive as any kind of useful form of writing.

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Holy shit, I actually agree with Bob on this one!

They tried to force me to write in Cursive in the Catholic Prison Camp they called an elementary school. After a certain number of years, the Lesbians in Habit just gave up and let me write in block letters. My handwriting is pretty unreadable either way, which is why I type everything.

 

[Unkotare]

The number of young people who aren't literate as far as cursive handwriting is a disgrace IMHO.

Glad to see they are working on mandating this as part of the K-12 curriculum. Plenty of things they can cut to make room, like gender studies and evolution.

The nuns were very successful in the Catholic schools in this, and I think a lot of government school kids were literate in the past as well.

https://www.legis.state.pa.us/cfdoc...blic.cfm?chamber=H&*****=20230&cosponId=41861

I wonder how this stupid idea turned out.