At a time when pterodactyls flew free, I was threatened with a ruler whack on my knuckles if I did not make cursive letters correctly.
Parents, students: is handwriting still taught in school?
Before the pandemic, teachers made a fuss about the importance of legible handwriting. Now students hardly need to handwrite anything cause all assignments can be done on a laptop. Believe it or not, a lot of exams now take place online too.
Personally, I like the old fashioned pen and paper but there’s no turning back now ;)
I had crossed paths with my 4th grade English teacher, forty years later. We caught up old news. Then she squeezed my hand and said, "you make such beautiful letters"!
Strong in that one, the teaching gene is.
@rachel8Well this is weird. About 4 hours ago I was talking to a friend in Michigan and he was telling me about this kid,well young adult,and he got a Christmas card written in cursive and he had to get help to read it. Smart kid,headed to college but they'd never exposed him to cursive.Yesterday I was reading a article about the decline of cursive in America,I think something like 17 states still require it.
I find it really conducive to writing,the words just seem to flow.
I was actually disappointed when they told me I was going to learn cursive.
I thought I was going to learn how to curse .
Slightly off topic but I’ve a distant cousin living in Texas who always writes in CAPS.He was telling me the other day that in Texas a lot of teachers encourage students to write in CAPS. I was sceptical but thought I’d give him the benefit of the doubt since I don’t live in Texas and haven’t talked to many Texans. Anyway, just thought i’d share this...
Guess it's part of the credo " Everything is Bigger and Better in Texas"
@TeenageDimwit said in #5:
> Slightly off topic but I’ve a distant cousin living in Texas who always writes in CAPS.He was telling me the other day that in Texas a lot of teachers encourage students to write in CAPS. I was sceptical but thought I’d give him the benefit of the doubt since I don’t live in Texas and haven’t talked to many Texans. Anyway, just thought i’d share this...
CAPS. That hits a nerve. My supervisor had a sit down with me once when I had sent an email that included all caps. "Do you realize that when you draft an email in CAPS, that you are shouting at the recipient?"
NO , I DIDN'T !!!
Cursive. Wow, what ancient terminology. I even remember that line of letters that went around the room in elementary school. And I could never get over the capital Q that looked like a 2 (did anybody ever really write em like that?).
@MrPushwood said in #9:
> Cursive. Wow, what ancient terminology. I even remember that line of letters that went around the room in elementary school. And I could never get over the capital Q that looked like a 2 (did anybody ever really write em like that?).
Capital Q I never drew correctly in all of grade school.
