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Sunday, April 21, 2013
Cursively Speaking
7 comments:
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iri said...
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Cursive contains all the elements of typewritten copy such as vowels, consonants and punctuation. Lazy and/or stupid is the answer for that girl. Hiphopfully the wife's friend the principal did everything in his (HA! Male principal?) power to correct those abuses of our kids when in a position to do so.
My mother was a grade school teacher for 40 years and I know about teachers and principals so that's probably a question I wouldn’t ax that person. Toward the end of her career my mother had nothing but contempt for lot them.
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4/21/13, 10:06 AM
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Ole Phat Stu said...
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Here in Germany, for the university entrance exams in maths, we set a matrix question designed to separate the wheat from the chaff. There were complaints it was too hard. Turned out half the maths teachers couldn't solve it either :-(
That's what comes from 'dumbing down' the education system :-( -
4/21/13, 10:12 AM
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TimO said...
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The problem is that over the last 25 years ALL the American schools have slowly phased out cursive and penmanship. I was disappointed in that when my boy went through school. They all write like 3rd-graders in block letters.
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4/21/13, 10:33 AM
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Anonymous said...
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TimO, I argue.
olds-mo-william
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4/21/13, 1:38 PM
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Anonymous said...
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I mean agree (correction software needs disabling).
olds-mo -
4/21/13, 5:39 PM
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The Thomas said...
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It all depends on whose cursive you are talking about. So be careful what you assume.
I was trained to read cursive by having to read aloud notes from my Great Aunts.
Their penmanship was difficult to read, it being even worse than mine (which is frequently confused with being a Doctor's).
Not a all like my Mother's Palmer Method script. She won an award for it and all that. -
4/21/13, 8:17 PM
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Anonymous said...
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So the content of the pictured document will remain secret and elusive to the inquiring mind 'real soon now'.
IOW, kids will not be able to read these several documents: Declaration of Independence, Constitution, Bill of Rights, Gettysburg Address, and so on.
As a 3rd grader in St Francis Xavier, I tried so hard to do cursive. Fail, big time. I wanted to write like the girl that sat behind me in Mis Murphy's class. Terrible handwriting to this day.
Even now, I can hardly do the letter "V" when printing, it comes out looking like a "U", unless I absolutely concentrate. The muscles/nerves just won't do it...
Just another bit of evidence that teachers don't. Educators evade educating, and so on.
"It's hard work!" Doncha know...yeah, I do.
tomw -
4/22/13, 9:09 AM
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