Cursive

[dancer139]

i live in Ohio and they haven't taught cursive writing in years.   I'm sorry but you need to  learn how write cursive.  How to sign legal documents  ?  you have  print and write you name in cursive !!!    I have to teach my youngest how to write her name in cursive,,,, so she could sign things.  when she entered college she had to know how to write not just Print !!!

[aflyingmonkey]

They stopped teaching cursive here in So Cal's public schools... but they have recently started teaching it again.
It's crazy that they stopped.  One of my nieces in college was telling me that it is hard for many people to take notes in college -- it's because they don't know cursive!   I told her to tape the lectures & then re-listen to them.... but what a pain to have to take notes on like history lectures & try to print every word & not use cursive.  Just dumb.

[king4cash]

social security is changing the way we comunicate...

[tnshpalmer85]

I think it is crazy that cursive is not being taught in schools, I have to teach my kids cursive at home. A lot of things has changed with the school system and it changed for the worst. I wish I could home school my kids.

[countrygirl12]

Today, I had a captcha that was written in cursive.

It got me to wondering how long it will be before the younger generations will not be able to read cursive.  Cursive isn't being taught in schools anymore...just printing.

You need to know how to sign your name. But other than that I don't see the big deal.  I can write in cursive but I don't. When I got to high school seems like I printed. I know I do now.  Cursive is too hard to read. I have an aunt who writes with some many loops and swirleys you cannot read her writing at all.

[countrygirl12]

I quit writing in cursive years ago, spent 30 years in security filling out daily activity reports...all needed in print.
Every once in awhile I'll sit down and write something in cursive...printing is a lot faster for me now...

Most official forms need to be printed. They need to be able to read them. A lot of people's cursive you cannot read.

Other than to sign your name I don't see what it matters.  I use to work in a bank and there was a guy who came in and there was a flag on his account that said he signs his name with an X.  This could be bad if people didn't know him.  I knew him personally so ID wasn't that big of a deal.  When he made the X he was suppose to show his ID which he always did without arguing.

[pectacon]

Is it really that impossible to read cursive if you weren't specifically taught? With the exception of a few funky capitals it's mostly recognizable letters with lines connecting them, isn't it?

[countrygirl12]

Is it really that impossible to read cursive if you weren't specifically taught? With the exception of a few funky capitals it's mostly recognizable letters with lines connecting them, isn't it?

No it isn't. It depends on the person writing it and their hand writing. For me yes it is almost impossible to read most people's cursive.

[vickysue]

I don't think they should have ever stopped  teaching it.  But like older friend of mine said, in a few years the younger generation won't know how to read it and then it will seem like we are writing every thing in code and can't read it.

[camellia0]

Makes you wonder what’s being taught in school. A lot of kids need the digital clocks to tell time too.

[joywalk637]

My freshman year we were told to not write in cursive and most teachers required papers (notes + homework) to be typed up because kids handwriting was so messy. If you had readable hand writing (like I do) some teachers would let you get away with it.

[countrygirl12]

Makes you wonder what’s being taught in school. A lot of kids need the digital clocks to tell time too.

It isn't so much that they don't teach it. Kids find ways around not learning. And the teachers cannot fail them because it might hurt their tender snowflake feelings.

It's like the kid locally who refused to learn to tie his shoes so his mommy went and bought him the Velcro strap shoes so he could fasten his shoes but didn't have to learn how to tie his shoes.  Then proceeds to scream at the teacher for bullying her stupid kid because she tried to make him learn what the curriculum said he was suppose to know.

[countrygirl12]

My freshman year we were told to not write in cursive and most teachers required papers (notes + homework) to be typed up because kids handwriting was so messy. If you had readable hand writing (like I do) some teachers would let you get away with it.

I find if odd that they would want your notes to be typed. Not all kids have access to a typewriter or even a computer with a printer.

My teachers just refused to accept it if your handwriting was so messy you couldn't read it. And I agree with that. I would give it back to them and tell them to write legible. A lot of them do it on purpose so they can give incorrect answers and then say oh well it says this. Kind of like the pin on Pinterest where you make a T and an F together on True False questions. Thinking the teacher cannot mark it wrong.  People put too much effort in to trying to beat the system.

[tantricia44]

If they do make cursive writing go extinct maybe it could be used for a way to use it as decoding aid the same way US used the American Indian language to send decoded messages where the Germans failed to translate it during ww2.

[mrisha]

Does the younger generation know what cursive is today?  Technology has made it so that there is no need for it.  Such a shame.