While I agree that older students need to know how to type...they also need to know how to WRITE. Has anyone paid attention to the handwriting of their children?
Being a foster parent, we have had many school age children through our home and the handwriting is atrocious! Anyway. I started thinking about this last night before I fell asleep because of something that happened earlier in the day.
One of my younger kids was looking at our calendar on the refrigerator and found December. She asked when her birthday was, so I told her to look for her month. Her response was "I don't know how, I can't read cursive!"
So if she can not read cursive...how are our children going to read other things in this world?
I seen the debate going in the comments from an online newspaper article. One person stated "Street signs are not in cursive, we don't use it in real life!"
S'rsly?
Are they not paying attention?
I write my name in CURSIVE when I sign my checks.
I write my name in CURSIVE when I sign legal documents.
I write my name in CURSIVE when I sign a letter.
I see cursive in different text on magazines, books...
It is artistic.
It is creative.
It is pretty.
So what happens 10, 15, 20 years down the road?
Other countries can write in cursive and we will have to have Special Ops to decode their missives.
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