Should we go back to teaching cursive

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Teacher here. Fine motor coordination in middle grades is very lacking. My new 3rd and 4th graders have kindergarten penmanship and coloring skills. A small handful of very mindful students are writing legibly and fewer still writing legibly and quickly. For all the "typing is also fine motor" people, we just spent over a year doing that and now parents want us off screens in the classroom.

As she types this….! Coloring and penmanship? What kind of typing did they do on an iPad? There’s no keyboard. I’m a high school teacher. They used computers before this, and they will do so after, in college and in their lives beyond school. As a secondary teacher, I could care less about their penmanship, nor their ability to color. Can they compose a decent sentence or paragraph? Much more important. Maybe focus there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:RUSSIAN TROLL ALERT


Seriously the republicans have hired Russian trolls to post about CRT everywhere.

No one is teaching CRT!!

[Anonymous]

Re: APS teaches cursive. In my experience, not true. They pretend to teach cursive, in that it's on the curriculum list. But they don't actually meaningfully teach it so that kids might learn it. I have three kids who are now MS/HS, and none learned cursive in APS. I wish I had taught them. You can learn to type later, but motor control handwriting is much more important at a young age. I see the negative effects now as they struggle to take notes, etc.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Re: APS teaches cursive. In my experience, not true. They pretend to teach cursive, in that it's on the curriculum list. But they don't actually meaningfully teach it so that kids might learn it. I have three kids who are now MS/HS, and none learned cursive in APS. I wish I had taught them. You can learn to type later, but motor control handwriting is much more important at a young age. I see the negative effects now as they struggle to take notes, etc.

My kids learned it in 3rd grade in APS but it was never covered again.

They can read cursive and can scribble out some words if needed.

[Anonymous]

Yes, they need to teach writing skills, whether cursive or just decent printing, so that you don't have more 26 year olds who write like this. What an embarrassment for someone that old. This looks like my 10 year old's handwriting.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yes, they need to teach writing skills, whether cursive or just decent printing, so that you don't have more 26 year olds who write like this. What an embarrassment for someone that old. This looks like my 10 year old's handwriting.

It's possible that his injuries (brain/spine) affected his fine motor skills.

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Anonymous wrote:What on earth for?

To read the Constitution.

Is it only available in cursive?

DP. Would you rather read something with your own skills or through another person's lens? If you read it yourself then you know what you've read is exactly what is written. If you read something that is translated then you are reading something that has another person's inferences and biases.

[Anonymous]

Just take your kids off the f-ing iPads. They’ll pick up a pen.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:What on earth for?

To read the Constitution.

Is it only available in cursive?

DP. Would you rather read something with your own skills or through another person's lens? If you read it yourself then you know what you've read is exactly what is written. If you read something that is translated then you are reading something that has another person's inferences and biases.

The constitution's cursive text does not unfurl great secrets to our democracy. Please don't confuse cursive for another language--that's just embarrassing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Education cannot be the same as when we were kids. The world is not the same as when we were kids. The job market is not the same as when we were kids. All of these kids need to learn how to type, which, by the way, is also fine motor.

+1, it’s a waste of time

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What on earth for?

To read the Constitution.

It’s in print on the web page, right underneath the cursive

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yes, they need to teach writing skills, whether cursive or just decent printing, so that you don't have more 26 year olds who write like this. What an embarrassment for someone that old. This looks like my 10 year old's handwriting.

So if it was so bad, practice with them. Be a parent!

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Cursive is still taught in Catholic schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Cursive is still taught in Catholic schools.

So is pro-life and anti-gay rhetoric.

[Anonymous]

Manual dexterity

There is a huge decline in the level of manual dexterity in medical students noted by surgical professors.

I guess the fine motor skills of the person stitching you up isn’t that important….