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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???
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???
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Date: 2012-09-22 05:47 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-09-22 06:01 pm (UTC)Thanks wikipedia. For a moment then I was so confused.
Here everyone writes cursive, had it drummed into me at school.
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Date: 2012-09-22 06:34 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-09-22 09:22 pm (UTC)Leave it to the Brits to still require it. They teach it here, briefly, but don't do any drumming.
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Date: 2012-09-22 09:23 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-09-22 09:26 pm (UTC)(edited for idiotic typot)
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Date: 2012-09-23 08:55 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-09-23 09:51 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-09-23 01:16 pm (UTC)I have to say that when I saw your post, what I thought was:
CURSIVE!! FOILED AGAIN!!!
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Date: 2012-09-23 03:01 pm (UTC)I can, but the legibility varies wildly depending on various random factors. Sadly, my printing isn't much better. And both are slower than my typing now.
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Date: 2012-09-23 05:21 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-09-23 05:22 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-09-23 05:24 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-09-24 12:01 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-09-24 12:01 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-09-24 02:34 pm (UTC)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.
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Date: 2012-09-24 02:35 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-09-24 02:37 pm (UTC)I feel like a while ago there was a handwriting meme that went around...maybe I'll dig that up. I know that whenever I'm not involved in schoolwork my handwriting goes all to pot and I have to remember how to do it again.
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Date: 2012-09-26 08:12 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-09-26 09:09 am (UTC)I don't really understand why it's supposed to *not* be legible.
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Date: 2012-09-30 10:17 pm (UTC)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!
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Date: 2012-09-30 10:20 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-09-30 10:21 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-10-02 01:23 am (UTC)Ah, yes! Loved that show.
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Date: 2013-02-11 08:11 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-05-05 06:08 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-05-06 12:40 am (UTC)I bet you could make some decent money doing calligraphy for wedding invitations! :)
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Date: 2013-05-06 03:57 am (UTC)Making cursive a law seems almost laughable, but I do think it's sad if students don't even get the chance/incentive to learn it. It doesn't have to look like a Medieval scroll in order to be beautiful and useful.