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Indiana curses the cursive: No more cursive writing in curriculum
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xaratherus
I think Elhonna probably has what I'd consider to be a reasonable argument for this. Simply saying that one person or another doesn't use it frequently, or at all, isn't really justification, in my opinion - but looking at school as a potential preparation for a career, I can see where there aren't really any jobs out there that list, "Be able to write in cursive" as a skill requirement.
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Monday
Thank God. Cursive is completely useless, imo.
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xaratherus
Well, I don't know how it was elsewhere, but all of my teachers in like 3rd grade told us that we would be using cursive for the rest of our lives and that we would absolutely NEED it for our survival in the world.
Depending on how long ago that was, it could have been considered true. Cursive handwriting was sort of the "educated" standard in the United States until computers became so widely available.
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pnkflffytutu
Thank God. Cursive is completely useless, imo.
Pretty much. Also I stopped using cursive for everything expect signatures after 6th grade.
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Squishalot
I'm somewhat amused by responses. Cursive isn't thought of as a separate thing to printing (i.e. non-cursive) here in Australia, it's just done as you grow up. You learn to join your letters, because not doing so requires you to take your pen off the page and make almost exactly the same move anyway. That's why cursive is considered faster than printing, because you don't have the unnecessary Z-axis motion.
I wouldn't advocate teaching short-hand in schools, however. Firstly - there is no truly accepted method / script for short-hand. Secondly, it's very easy to botch the meaning of short-hand for those who are either a) unfamiliar with short-hand generally, or b) unfamiliar with the particular type / abbreviations of short-hand that you might use in particular. Short-hand is not a real valid form of communication with anybody other than yourself, any moreso than a secret language is.
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Orranis
I'm literally not allowed to write anything in cursive, though to be fair I type everything because it's faster and I have bad handwriting.
Messaggio di
Atik
That's why cursive is considered faster than printing, because you don't have the unnecessary Z-axis motion.
This is what I don't understand.
Keeping my hand down can only save me a few milliseconds at best. (I actually just tested and I can print my name faster than I sign it.) And it proves to be much more tiring and harder to read, as it can literally become a bunch of squiggles and makes spelling mistakes murderous on what you are trying to say.
So what is the point?
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Squishalot
Keeping my hand down can only save me a few milliseconds at best. (I actually just tested and I can print my name faster than I sign it.)
That's probably because you're well practised at printing your name, and not at writing it cursive. Either that, or you're putting too much effort into the preciseness of your joins between letters.
And it proves to be much more tiring and harder to read, as it can literally become a bunch of squiggles and makes spelling mistakes murderous on what you are trying to say.
If you're at the state of mind where you're making spelling mistakes and creating squiggles (e.g. extremely tired / lacking sleep, rushed), then your printing is going to be equally bad, or significantly slower.
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Atik
My printing is pretty bad normally:
http://i1086.photobucket.com/albums/j460/Logan_Emery/Logansart0012.jpg
My cursive is nearly illegible. But it is still slower than my typing, which is notably slower than when I hand write stuff. (It took me two minutes to type this post...)
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Jubilee
All my letters that begin with an upstroke are connected when I print.
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wolfeyoung
My printing is pretty bad normally:
http://i1086.photobucket.com/albums/j460/Logan_Emery/Logansart0012.jpg
What is that? I metal egg on tank tracks?
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Atik
My printing is pretty bad normally:
http://i1086.photobucket.com/albums/j460/Logan_Emery/Logansart0012.jpg
What is that? I metal egg on tank tracks?
What else would it be?
Concept art for SC2Mapster.
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Squishalot
Question - do you guys ever have to write long essay-type questions in exam situations for schooling? For example, something that requires a 6 page written response in an hour and a half or so. If so, how often?
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Jubilee
Question - do you guys ever have to write long essay-type questions in exam situations for schooling? For example, something that requires a 6 page written response in an hour and a half or so. If so, how often?
I fill up a blue book (do you have those down under?) in a half an hour maybe, unless I have to stop and think which makes it longer.
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207044
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Khorrupt
http://theoatmeal.com/blog/handwriting
Story of my life.
And they told me I would need beautiful cursive writing to graduate elementary school.
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