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FLAprogressive (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-11-11 03:51 PM Original message |
God forbid we cut cursive. |
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polichick (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-11-11 03:56 PM Response to Original message |
1. Cursive, a lost art. I found some letters my grandmother wrote years ago... |
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FLAprogressive (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-11-11 03:59 PM Response to Reply #1 |
3. Clearly your husband is uneducated since he never mastered the important skill of pretty writing. |
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polichick (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-11-11 04:00 PM Response to Reply #3 |
5. Yeah, the stupid slob. ;) ... |
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grasswire (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-11-11 03:57 PM Response to Original message |
2. do you know that learning cursive has implications for brain development? |
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grasswire (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-11-11 04:00 PM Response to Reply #2 |
4. here's one article |
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FLAprogressive (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-11-11 04:00 PM Response to Reply #2 |
6. Cursive is not the only way to develop young minds, I'm sure. |
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patrice (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-11-11 04:08 PM Response to Reply #6 |
12. The reference is possibly to a specific type of development. Not that it would be |
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MissMarple (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-11-11 06:06 PM Response to Reply #6 |
29. I agree with Dr. Sortino. |
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polichick (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-11-11 04:06 PM Response to Reply #2 |
11. So does playing video games - though I hate them myself. |
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DainBramaged (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-11-11 04:02 PM Response to Original message |
7. Only cigarette smokin breastfeeding Olive Garden boneless banana eating mothers need cursive |
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NYC_SKP (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-11-11 04:06 PM Response to Reply #7 |
9. Pit Bulls |
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DainBramaged (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-11-11 05:42 PM Response to Reply #9 |
26. Darn, i'll try harder next time |
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Shagbark Hickory (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-11-11 04:05 PM Response to Original message |
8. I think the time should instead be devoted to teaching cooking. |
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seabeyond (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-11-11 04:06 PM Response to Original message |
10. my kids have learned more, in earlier years than we ever did. have had awesome focus on writing |
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KT2000 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-11-11 04:12 PM Response to Original message |
13. Really? |
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JoePhilly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-11-11 04:53 PM Response to Reply #13 |
17. No it isn't. |
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markpkessinger (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-11-11 06:02 PM Response to Reply #13 |
28. For you, perhaps... |
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colorado_ufo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-11-11 04:12 PM Response to Original message |
14. There is a difference between functional cursive writing |
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markpkessinger (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-11-11 04:43 PM Response to Reply #14 |
16. It's not necessarily faster ... |
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markpkessinger (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-11-11 04:41 PM Response to Original message |
15. My problem with cursive handwriting |
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FLAprogressive (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-11-11 05:08 PM Response to Reply #15 |
20. Great post....the way some here talk, you are a lesser if you haven't mastered the art of cursive. |
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MissMarple (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-11-11 06:26 PM Response to Reply #20 |
31. Cusive is important, but it doesn't come easily to everyone. I am sorry for your experience. |
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Posteritatis (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-11-11 05:59 PM Response to Reply #15 |
27. I fell into a hybrid style myself in college |
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JonLP24 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-11-11 05:03 PM Response to Original message |
18. I know how to write cursive |
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damntexdem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-11-11 05:04 PM Response to Original message |
19. But, but, on all of those 10 Suggestions monuments, the words are not in cursive. |
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HopeHoops (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-11-11 05:10 PM Response to Original message |
21. And old family letters will turn into a foreign language. |
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Blasphemer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-11-11 05:12 PM Response to Original message |
22. I learned cursive and never use it aside from signing my name |
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Abq_Sarah (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-11-11 05:28 PM Response to Reply #22 |
25. I do a lot of note taking |
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WinkyDink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-11-11 05:14 PM Response to Original message |
23. Ya know, in pre-history days we learned both styles AND took a non-scaled SAT. |
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AverageJoe90 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-11-11 05:16 PM Response to Original message |
24. One form of education manipulation has simply been replaced with another. |
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banned from Kos (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-11-11 06:11 PM Response to Original message |
30. I rarely need to read cursive and when I do its hand-written chicken scratchings |
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