First time writing sentences in cursive in at least 20 years.
How’d I do?
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Only 20% of kids finishing high school in Oklahoma can read at an 8th grade proficiency (some other states are actually worse) and centrist dipshits think not teaching cursive is the problem. How out of touch can you be.
Yeah Fort Worth isd just had a big deal with former rep Pete sessions who is in charge of some Fort Worth educational committee and 60% of the kids can’t read at a grade level.
Writing cursive seems far down the list of priorities when very few people write down anything anymore. I am biased though because I always sucked at cursive and preferred print. I have a friend who would write in half cursive half print sometimes splitting words,
I’d hit it. 
I tried “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog” and lowercase r seemed really hard for me. It reminded me of the Billy Madison Phil Rizzuto cursive lesson.
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I don’t have a real opinion on Pennsylvania curriculum, but people should (manually) write and read as a regular matter of course. Those activities help you learn how to learn and develop thinking and not doing them makes you dumber. I can’t prove that but I am sure that it is true. I know all kinds of students who made it to grad school and have never had to write anything and that is not good.
I think you sigma’d into ear a Gipwitian hill
They taught cursive at the woo woo private school my kid went to for a while and their reasoning was that it made them do their work slower and think more.
I think people rightfully recognize that education used to be much better and just blaming the elimination of cursive is easier than looking at the actual reasons why it is so much worse now.
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Can’t trust American legal commentators.
Wot? Cursive is faster.
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Anyone dealing with historical documents needs to at least be able to read cursive. With our history volunteers, some of the kids really struggle.
But I guess that just a specialized optional class for those that need it.
Learning anything—especially if it’s challenging—should be approached with caution in primary education.
not for me it isn’t, and probably not for 6th graders who have never used it
Cursive is faster than printing, but both are much slower than nothing which is what most people do. When I need to really digest something, I write notes - pen and paper - and it is incredibly and immediately helpful with both retention and analysis. I tell students to do the same, especially when outlining ideas and research questions. Few of them listen, but those that do are surprised about how well it works. This may sound like a dorko thing to say, but if you haven’t taken notes since school, you should try it sometime. It makes you much smarter. LFS’s kids school had it right imo.
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I’d like to see maths turn back the clock with the improvement of rapid identification of those that need alternative methods.
Almost every old person that learned old school can at least do the basics. You give the kid at the register a penny after they’ve already rung up an even amount payment is a dear in the headlights.
Lol old man nobody uses cash. lol old man the machines will calculate everything. I still contend by having little ability to know even approximately what the answer is, folks will just be robbed blind in commerce.
Is it?
All I know is that it has gotten so much harder to get into college, med school, residency etc because applicants have gotten so much stronger. Obviously that doesn’t mean inequities don’t exist, but those existed back then too.
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Yeah, I kinda think overall education is way better than it was a few generations ago. The upcoming literacy crisis may change all that, but that’s hardly the education system’s fault.
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Late to the party, but haha, what a tweet. Never change edems, never change.
Writing cursive teaches you critical thinking, right? Right??? Can that explain it?
I’d be pretty shocked if taking notes in cursive leads to any additional improvement in learning versus taking notes in block letters.