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Should school teach cursive writing?

Yes

76% (29)

23% (9)

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0% (0)

Total Votes : 38

(last vote on : 10/8/2012 8:10:40 PM)
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RE: Should school teach cursive writing? - 7/13/2011 5:42:46 PM

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I am sort of surprised that 9 people here never learned cursive writing. That is amazing.

False assumption. I learnt cursive writing; I just don't feel that it's a valid skill that school time should be spent on. I learnt a lot of useless things at school, that doesn't mean anyone else ought to be put through those particular paces.

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RE: Should school teach cursive writing? - 7/13/2011 5:44:52 PM

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Nice try. But you are bluffing.

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RE: Should school teach cursive writing? - 7/13/2011 5:49:33 PM

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It helps to develop fine motor skills in a way that printing or video games cannot.

Do you actually have any evidence for that? (About the printing, not about the video games.)

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It also teaches spatial skills because we stop one word and then leave a space before going on to the next.

As opposed to.... stopping one letter and leaving a small space before the next letter, and then stopping a word and leaving a larger space before going on to the next? How does that differ from printed writing? In fact by that logic ought printed writing not to be better for spatial awareness because of the differentiated gaps between letters and words?

As a quick answer here is an article. http://blog.childandfamilydevelopment.com/blog/sensory-integration-through-play/0/0/why-cursive-writing-is-still-important

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RE: Should school teach cursive writing? - 7/13/2011 5:55:25 PM

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As a quick answer here is an article. http://blog.childandfamilydevelopment.com/blog/sensory-integration-through-play/0/0/why-cursive-writing-is-still-important

A single occupational therapist noting a trend that coincides with the end of cursive handwriting in schools is not actually evidence. To say 'this generation of children have worse motor skills than the last' is an observation I could possibly believe. To say 'that is because they are not being taught to write cursively' is weak. And using the treatment of children with Downs syndrome to suggest wider conclusions about children without learning difficulties is even weaker - that's taking selection bias to an extreme. That article presents no evidence whatsoever. Sorry.

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RE: Should school teach cursive writing? - 7/13/2011 5:56:30 PM

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Nice try. But you are bluffing.

How am I bluffing?

I was one of the nine people who voted 'no'.

I can write cursively.

I don't value the skill.

Which of those facts is the one you doubt?

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RE: Should school teach cursive writing? - 7/13/2011 5:58:23 PM

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You deny others a skill- which is a crucial link to the elder generation.

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RE: Should school teach cursive writing? - 7/13/2011 6:01:49 PM

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You deny others a skill- which is a crucial link to the elder generation.

I'd deny them a skill, certainly, in order to make time for other, more valuable things. A crucial link to the elder generation, though? Please.

I can write cursively (actually, my handwriting is beautiful when I concentrate) but I can't read my grandfather's handwriting. The cursive fonts taught in schools today are nothing like the ones your precious 'elder generations' used; you're way out of touch with modern reality if you think that learning on the Nelson scheme or whatever will help your nephews with the letters in your attic.

(PA being deluded? Heresy, I know.)

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RE: Should school teach cursive writing? - 7/13/2011 7:57:47 PM

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You deny others a skill- which is a crucial link to the elder generation.

Now I get it. You're one of these old people that complains that you had to walk 10 miles in the snow with cardboard shoes and kids are just spoiled now and that their music is too loud and they should pull up their pants and kids don't respect their elders....am I right? LOL

So this really has nothing to do with learning or not learning about cursive writing but more about the fact that you think because you learned it a hundred years ago then everyone should still learn it because otherwise they just don't get the older generation.

You do realize that we're in a different century now right? LOL

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RE: Should school teach cursive writing? - 7/14/2011 5:10:27 AM

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You deny others a skill- which is a crucial link to the elder generation.

Now I get it. You're one of these old people that complains that you had to walk 10 miles in the snow with cardboard shoes and kids are just spoiled now and that their music is too loud and they should pull up their pants and kids don't respect their elders....am I right? LOL

So this really has nothing to do with learning or not learning about cursive writing but more about the fact that you think because you learned it a hundred years ago then everyone should still learn it because otherwise they just don't get the older generation.

You do realize that we're in a different century now right? LOL

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RE: Should school teach cursive writing? - 7/14/2011 9:06:10 AM

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You deny others a skill- which is a crucial link to the elder generation.

Now I get it. You're one of these old people that complains that you had to walk 10 miles in the snow with cardboard shoes and kids are just spoiled now and that their music is too loud and they should pull up their pants and kids don't respect their elders....am I right? LOL

So this really has nothing to do with learning or not learning about cursive writing but more about the fact that you think because you learned it a hundred years ago then everyone should still learn it because otherwise they just don't get the older generation.

You do realize that we're in a different century now right? LOL

CLEAN your room.