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Indiana schools ending cursive writing requirement
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What are your thoughts on this?
MERRILLVILLE, IN (AP) - The days when Indiana's elementary school students were required to perfect the looping script of cursive handwriting are coming to an end.
Starting this fall, the state Department of Education will no longer require Indiana's public schools to teach cursive writing. State officials sent school leaders a memo April 25 telling them that instead of cursive writing, students will be expected to become proficient in keyboard use.
The Times of Munster reports the memo says schools may continue to teach cursive as a local standard, or they may decide to stop teaching cursive altogether.
Andree Anderson of the Indiana University Northwest Urban Teacher Education Program says teachers haven't had the time to teach cursive writing for some time because it's not a top priority. Anderson says students' handwriting is atrocious.
MERRILLVILLE, IN (AP) - The days when Indiana's elementary school students were required to perfect the looping script of cursive handwriting are coming to an end.
Starting this fall, the state Department of Education will no longer require Indiana's public schools to teach cursive writing. State officials sent school leaders a memo April 25 telling them that instead of cursive writing, students will be expected to become proficient in keyboard use.
The Times of Munster reports the memo says schools may continue to teach cursive as a local standard, or they may decide to stop teaching cursive altogether.
Andree Anderson of the Indiana University Northwest Urban Teacher Education Program says teachers haven't had the time to teach cursive writing for some time because it's not a top priority. Anderson says students' handwriting is atrocious.
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Maybe they should just stop teaching history too, since that seems outdated too. [:(!]
How do you sign your name, if not in cursive?
Just make yer mark pilgram.
Thumb print ... retinal scan ... bar code on your forehead maybe?
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Last year when Abby was in 3rd grade (she has now completed 4th), we moved at the semester break ... at the old school the teacher was going to start teaching cursive in the 2nd semester, at the new school the teacher did it in the first semester.
At our Parent-Teacher conference she said not to worry about it because there isn't much they do with actual penmanship anymore and cursive would probably be dropped in less than 5 years because nearly everything is keyboard. The teacher worked with her on it with her but she missed the class participation aspect she can read and write cursive but she struggles writing it a bit and only does it when she has too.
? otherwise, you'll find an excuse.
My Parents and Grandparents all had beautiful hand writing. As a child "educated" in the 60's and 70's my writing is terrible and has gotten worse.
I have seen old handwritten ledgers that were written in by several people over many years and the handwriting is so neat and similar it is amazing.
I think its terrible they are going to stop teaching it. This country is getting so fat, sorry and lazy I doubt we will be around in 50 years.
In trying to cifer any of the prescriptions any number of doctors I've been treated by in my 66yrs struggling thru life, I think proficient cursive handwritting skills haven't been a requirement for a long time!
I think that's a doctor thing...
I'm a medical physicist, not an MD, but even my handwriting has gone to hell in a bucket whilst in graduate school [:D]
Before the Type writer was a common thing people judged your Intelligence and education on your writing. If you ever look at old sign in books like at the county from the early 1900's and 1800's you will be amazed at how neat the peoples penmanship was.
My Parents and Grandparents all had beautiful hand writing. As a child "educated" in the 60's and 70's my writing is terrible and has gotten worse.
I have seen old handwritten ledgers that were written in by several people over many years and the handwriting is so neat and similar it is amazing.
I think its terrible they are going to stop teaching it. This country is getting so fat, sorry and lazy I doubt we will be around in 50 years.
Go to ancestry.com and look at old census records. Some are very neat. Most are barely legible.[:0]
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the fine motor muscles in my hands never developed properly. i was in catholic elementary school and had the sisters to deal with. no matter how hard i worked, i could never seem to write legibly. in 6th grade, i moved to public school and they tested me, discovering the above mentioned problem. there was supposed to be funding for occupational therapy, but it never materialized so it never got better.
then of course, theres the accident last year. so i'll never write like the good doctor...
How do you sign your name, if not in cursive?
Maybe they should just stop teaching history too, since that seems outdated too. [:(!]
Over the years my signature looks worse and worse. I'll find some scrap with my signature on it and I'll sit there thinking who the hell wrote my name? And I live alone [:D].
Also gesshots how did you take the pic of them thumbs? Got yourself a third arm?
quote:Originally posted by Mr. Perfect
Indiana has all sorts of problems. This is just a symptom.
I haven't written in cursive since grade school, it's always been in capital letters since. Easier to read IMO. My dad was the same way.
Navy did the same to me. All caps. Neatly. Like a typewriter.
The problem is that I can't find a real fountain pen anywhere. All the ones I can find use those expensive cartridges. I suspect that even if I did find one I would have a hard time finding an ink bottle.
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