Aw, honey

[checkers65477]

Conversation with a student this week:

Me: ...so, if you want to put a reserve on a book, you just write the title and your name here, and we'll let you know when the book is ready for you to pick up.
Student:  *writes*
Student, looks up at me, eyebrow raised: You can read cursive, can't you?

I assured him that not only can I read cursive, I can actually write it, too.

F-list--can you???

Comments

[aged-crone.livejournal.com]

I've read articles about all the benefits of teaching handwriting, and making children practice; all kinds of fine motor skills and hand-eye coordination and more. It's very odd that schools don't emphasize it, but of course they're too busy about teaching-to-the-standardized-test.

I have to say that when I saw your post, what I thought was:

CURSIVE!! FOILED AGAIN!!!

[checkers65477.livejournal.com]

:) Ok, what cartoon character said that all the time?

[aged-crone.livejournal.com]

I don't know!!!

[jade-sabre-301.livejournal.com]

Yosemite Sam? Or Daffy Duck? I'm leaning towards Sam but I'm not actually sure.

Also the reason that nowadays they teach cursive in like third grade but never require kids to write in it is because they assume everyone will be typing. I think my eleven-year-old cousins were taught how to sign their names, and that was it. Which, again, I totally agree with what you say about fine motor skills and the like (I guess they get those from video games instead? :-b), but there you go.

It's like the death of diagramming sentences. Now, I doubt diagramming was ever widely taught up to its full potential, but I really wish I had had time to explore it more for its visual and kinesthetic possibilities--for students who need to see the whole sentence in bits. Anyway.

[tiegirl.livejournal.com]

Snidely Whiplash from Rocky and Bullwinkle.The bad guy to Dudley Dooright's good guy. Also, Leslie, hahaha.

And yes, I can read and write cursive. It's hard to believe people can't! I don't have children and I don't work with them anymore, either, so I didn't know!

[tiegirl.livejournal.com]

And with a name like Kampschroer, I have to write legibly just to make sure I include all the letters. Even though I was born with that name and learned to spell it when I was, like, two, I still misspell it sometimes.

[checkers65477.livejournal.com]

Snidely Whiplash from Rocky and Bullwinkle

Ah, yes! Loved that show.