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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Who knew that all these elementary school students needed to be trained for future careers as calligraphers and scribes?

I personally will not rest until pens and pencils—newfangled tech garbage— are rightfully replaced by quills and ink pots.[/quote]

Who needs fine motor skills anyways.[/quote]

Who knew that cursive was the only way to hone fine motor skills. Thousands of years of children who never possessed fine motor skills, all because cursive hadn’t been invented yet![/quote]

There's a difference between buttoning your shirt or tying your shoes once a day and writing for several hours a day when it comes to fine motor skills.

Also writing, particularly in cursive rather than block print tends to show better memory connections and very different brain activity.  Kids who practice my language make such connections to read each character through repetition of writing it.  But since this isn't stuff that is tested in the classroom, it won't show up on any sort of SOL, so school boards don't care. [/quote]

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