FCPS handwriting and grammar

[Anonymous]

How does your adult child not know how to read cursive? My elementary school aged kid has not learned how to write cursive, but he can most definitely read it.

I guess because no one ever taught him. He did quite well on his SAT's by the way and has never HAD to read cursive. It was never presented to him.

[Anonymous]

How does your adult child not know how to read cursive? My elementary school aged kid has not learned how to write cursive, but he can most definitely read it.

Do you know how to read 18th or 19th century script? It is not easy if you haven't practiced.

[Anonymous]

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How does your adult child not know how to read cursive? My elementary school aged kid has not learned how to write cursive, but he can most definitely read it.

Do you know how to read 18th or 19th century script? It is not easy if you haven't practiced.

Yes, apt analogy because his high school and college teachers were writing comments on his work in 18th century script. @@
I think learning how to write cursive is useless, but it strains credulity that an almost 25 year old has NEVER been exposed to cursive. I call shenanigans on pp.

[Anonymous]

I think learning how to write cursive is useless, but it strains credulity that an almost 25 year old has NEVER been exposed to cursive. I call shenanigans on pp.
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You'd be wrong. Kids today don't write it--and most teachers don't use it. By the way, he types 90+ words per minute accurately.

[Anonymous]

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I think learning how to write cursive is useless, but it strains credulity that an almost 25 year old has NEVER been exposed to cursive. I call shenanigans on pp.
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You'd be wrong. Kids today don't write it--and most teachers don't use it. By the way, he types 90+ words per minute accurately.

Yes, but you don't have a kid today, you have a kid 20 years ago, and teachers were still writing comments in cursive then. And I am sure they still are at the college level. So either 1. you somehow got 16 years of teachers who never wrote a Single thing in cursive 2. You read the cursive comments to him instead of letting him figure it out or 3. You're just a liar.

I know which one I vote for.

[Anonymous]

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This stuff is intertwined with various subjects and pops up only now and then without consistency. There is no set scheduled time, even just 10 min, each day or several days a week for practicing grammar, learning new grammar rules and reinforcing grammar rules. This is important is is severely lacking.

Throwing it in intermittently is not effective.

You are looking for lessons that teach grammar in isolation, separate from the writing process. Grammar is important and it is still taught, it just isn't done in the same way it was when many of us were kids.

[Anonymous]

Yes, but you don't have a kid today, you have a kid 20 years ago, and teachers were still writing comments in cursive then. And I am sure they still are at the college level. So either 1. you somehow got 16 years of teachers who never wrote a Single thing in cursive 2. You read the cursive comments to him instead of letting him figure it out or 3. You're just a liar.

I know which one I vote for.

Well. "good work" or "needs improvement" in cursive --maybe. But, not much more. By the way, what side of the bed did you get up on this a.m.?

[Anonymous]

cont. His FCPS elementary had a technology teacher VERY early. He certainly never received detailed comments in cursive.

[Anonymous]

Yes, but you don't have a kid today, you have a kid 20 years ago, and teachers were still writing comments in cursive then. And I am sure they still are at the college level. So either 1. you somehow got 16 years of teachers who never wrote a Single thing in cursive 2. You read the cursive comments to him instead of letting him figure it out or 3. You're just a liar.

I know which one I vote for.

Perhaps, I have higher standards of what "reading" is than you do. If you cannot pick up a letter and read every word without deciphering it, I consider that not to be fluent reading.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

How does your adult child not know how to read cursive? My elementary school aged kid has not learned how to write cursive, but he can most definitely read it.

I guess because no one ever taught him. He did quite well on his SAT's by the way and has never HAD to read cursive. It was never presented to him.

He didn't handwrite his thank you notes?

[Anonymous]

Yes. He handwrote them in manuscript. Almost all his friends do. His sister does as well--and says all her friends do.

[Anonymous]

Do you know any 20 somethings or teens? That's the way it is these days.

[Anonymous]

I have two in high school who both learned to write/read cursive.
My middle schooler has never been taught cursive. He can not write in cursive.

We are in FCPS.

I think its true that needing to write in cursive is out of date.
But I am sure there is a benefit to the actual process (fine motor skill, hand/brain etc) but wonder if something else that is more useful could take the place of cursive and do the same thing.

I was amused when my middle school son had to put his signature on something lately (we got passports) and he didn't know how to sign his name. He printed a signature.

I very, very very rarely write anything by hand anymore. I haven't in years and years. When I do write something, it feels so funny.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

I think learning how to write cursive is useless, but it strains credulity that an almost 25 year old has NEVER been exposed to cursive. I call shenanigans on pp.
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You'd be wrong. Kids today don't write it--and most teachers don't use it. By the way, he types 90+ words per minute accurately.

Yes, but you don't have a kid today, you have a kid 20 years ago, and teachers were still writing comments in cursive then. And I am sure they still are at the college level. So either 1. you somehow got 16 years of teachers who never wrote a Single thing in cursive 2. You read the cursive comments to him instead of letting him figure it out or 3. You're just a liar.

I know which one I vote for.

I'm 42, so I've been out of college for some time. I never submitted nor revived back anything written by hand even when I went to school.

I just wrote a cursive sentence and showed it to my 17 year old. She couldn't read it, she read a few words but it was not fluent reading.

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