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Roon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-20-09 12:08 AM Original message |
Cursive writing is fading skill, but so what? |
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rockymountaindem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-20-09 12:12 AM Response to Original message |
1. I'm getting to the point where it's a point of pride for me to make all my notes in cursive |
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rcrush (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-20-09 12:25 AM Response to Original message |
2. I learned cursive in elementary school but it was never enforced during high school and after |
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Chan790 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-20-09 12:35 AM Response to Original message |
3. I say "Good Riddance" to it. |
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LeftyMom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-20-09 12:46 AM Response to Original message |
4. As long as students can write legibly at a reasonable pace, I really don't care what it looks like. |
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WinkyDink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-20-09 09:57 PM Response to Reply #4 |
17. Ah, there's the rub: I used to have students ask for "extra time" because, as seniors, they were |
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suninvited (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-20-09 04:54 AM Response to Original message |
5. I was so excited to enter the third grade |
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jakeXT (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-20-09 05:24 AM Response to Original message |
6. A friend of mine wrote in capital letters in university, I think it was a smart move |
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Drunken Irishman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-20-09 05:07 PM Response to Reply #6 |
14. That does sound tedious. |
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hunter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-20-09 11:49 AM Response to Original message |
7. No matter how hard I tried I never could. |
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fizzgig (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-20-09 12:04 PM Response to Original message |
8. i think it's unfortunate that penmanship is a dying art |
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MrsBrady (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-20-09 12:11 PM Response to Original message |
9. This headline would have made my grandmother livid. |
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Ikonoklast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-20-09 02:13 PM Response to Original message |
10. It must only be done with a sharpened quill and ink from an ink well. |
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susanr516 (823 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-20-09 04:59 PM Response to Original message |
11. I like writing in cursive |
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Blue_In_AK (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-20-09 05:04 PM Response to Original message |
12. Cursive writing is much more expressive of one's personality |
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Drunken Irishman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-20-09 05:05 PM Response to Original message |
13. I've always been bad at cursive. |
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XemaSab (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-20-09 05:09 PM Response to Original message |
15. The other day a girl next to me in class said "you have beautiful writing" |
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elocs (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-20-09 05:22 PM Response to Original message |
16. The only cursive I've written in decades is my signature and that's not entirely cursive, |
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WinkyDink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-20-09 09:59 PM Response to Reply #16 |
18. More's the pity. |
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elocs (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-21-09 09:54 AM Response to Reply #18 |
19. Sorry, no. The point of writing is communicating, and my cursive fails at that. |
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