What is the point? I learned it in elementary school. I hardly use it in real life. I have to think only a very small percentage of people actually use cursive in their every day activities. Every document you have to use print and most papers in school you have to use print. So can someone explain to me why they waste so much time teaching us something that really doesn't do a thing for us in life?
Haven't been in school for a long time but just remembered about it when I saw a note from someone here at the office and it got me thinking. I would be very pleased to know that it's not being taught lol.
I use a mix of cursive and a wavy style (similar to Arabic) for speed. The loopy and elaborate cursive taught in schools was a waste of time. Though calligraphy can be beautiful, it shouldn't be forced on everybody.a
We practiced over and over again how tro write perfect script in 3rd and 4th grade, then they stopped reinforcing it and nobody I know cna write perfect formal cursive anymore.
I was wondering this same thing the other day. I came across some of my old papers from high school where I wrote in barely legible print, just like I do today. So obviously they had stopped forcing cursive on us by high school. So yeah, what was the point?
Christmas and Bday cards aside,the last time I received a hand written letter in cursive or regular was in 2006 from a comrade in the Iraq. just thought of a reason: to write your signature that only you can understand. =)
Of course i sign papers. I feel that all the time spent to sign my name is a bit over done. Your telling me I needed all that time on a script that I won't use more that my signature? Lets just waste more time on stuff we won't use more than a couple times a day if we are lucky. As far as calligraphy I have to agre it's very beautiful but should be done as an art and not needed to learn to have for everyday life.
Years ago, I asked a woman who'd taught elementary school for 30 years this question. She said that it's not as much about the cursive itself, but rather that it's good for the development of fine motor skills, which are a very important part of 1st through 4th grades. Makes sense to me.
Those two usually go hand in hand. If you see a chick with bad handwriting, she's probably smarter than you.
always hilarious to hear the "Why do we even LEARN this if we're not going to use it in everyday life" argument. You act as though you were sent away for two years to train with the monks or something.
CBS Sunday morning did a story on this not too long ago. Penmanship peaks in 4th grade and goes down from there. They do still teach it in school. My daughter (5th grade) and son 3rd grade both learned it. I don't think it carries the same significance it did when I was younger with some much typing done today.
Makes sense. I have a kindergartener who is learning cursive right now. She can hardly read. The public schools forced me to write in cursive through the 5th grade. Then I switched to a private school and I was free forever. I hated cursive. I think it made a little more sense then, since this was before the invention of the interwebs. It also occurs to me that if they didn't spend any time at all on cursive, people wouldn't be able to read it when they do happen upon something written in cursive.
My cursive was always horrible and virtually illegible. In college, I switched to writing in block capital letters and it has made things much easier.
