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Anonymous wrote:No. I taught my kids cursive in elementary. I wanted to teach them shorthand to take notes in high school, but they laughed and said they take all their notes on the laptops and my shorthand is useless. I think it can be modified for typing, but they're teens and think they know everything, so...

Taking notes in shorthand is a terrible idea. Writing every word down, in shorthand or otherwise, means you aren't thinking and organizing and synthesizing.

Taking notes in class means you are memorizing at best, frantically transcribing at worst, not thinking.

Says someone who doesn’t follow neuroscience…

Anonymous wrote:My kids learned cursing in 3rd grade, unfortunately.

Is cursive a bad thing?

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Anonymous wrote:Do they still teach cursive and shorthand in MCPS and is it an 8th grade elective?

Shorthand? No one teaches or uses shorthand any more.

I had a shorthand class in high school mcps 20 years ago! Still use it to this day

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Anonymous wrote:Arcane and obsolete skill. Keyboarding is worthwhile.

https://www.howlifeunfolds.com/learning-education/case-cursive-6-reasons-why-cursive-handwriting-good-your-brain

Nothing screams arcane and obsolete like citing a 1976 study on handwriting.

Can we at least agree that shorthand is arcane and obsolete? I think they stopped teaching it in the 1970s, and even then it was only taught to the girls.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Arcane and obsolete skill. Keyboarding is worthwhile.

https://www.howlifeunfolds.com/learning-education/case-cursive-6-reasons-why-cursive-handwriting-good-your-brain

Nothing screams arcane and obsolete like citing a 1976 study on handwriting.

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20240122-california-signs-cursive-writing-into-law-what-are-the-brain-benefits

All this says is that writing with pen and paper is more beneficial than typing. None of the cited research says that cursive is better than printing, because it isn't. As a lefty, it was very difficult to write in cursive without smearing it and making a mess. I was so happy in college when the professors didn't care about cursive anymore.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Arcane and obsolete skill. Keyboarding is worthwhile.

https://www.howlifeunfolds.com/learning-education/case-cursive-6-reasons-why-cursive-handwriting-good-your-brain

Nothing screams arcane and obsolete like citing a 1976 study on handwriting.

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20240122-california-signs-cursive-writing-into-law-what-are-the-brain-benefits

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No. I taught my kids cursive in elementary. I wanted to teach them shorthand to take notes in high school, but they laughed and said they take all their notes on the laptops and my shorthand is useless. I think it can be modified for typing, but they're teens and think they know everything, so...

Taking notes in shorthand is a terrible idea. Writing every word down, in shorthand or otherwise, means you aren't thinking and organizing and synthesizing.

PP you replied to. I went through med school with shorthand, so I feel it's served me well.

My kids never had cursive in school. We taught them at home just so they could at least read it easily.

Our brains are powered by brawndo. It’s got electrolytes. President camancho outlawed cursive years ago

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Arcane and obsolete skill. Keyboarding is worthwhile.

https://www.howlifeunfolds.com/learning-education/case-cursive-6-reasons-why-cursive-handwriting-good-your-brain

Nothing screams arcane and obsolete like citing a 1976 study on handwriting.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Arcane and obsolete skill. Keyboarding is worthwhile.

https://www.howlifeunfolds.com/learning-education/case-cursive-6-reasons-why-cursive-handwriting-good-your-brain

DP. A random opinion piece is just that. Just because you read it on the internet does not make it true for every person everywhere.

Anonymous wrote:Arcane and obsolete skill. Keyboarding is worthwhile.

https://www.howlifeunfolds.com/learning-education/case-cursive-6-reasons-why-cursive-handwriting-good-your-brain

Third grade with some follows in fourth and fifth.

Arcane and obsolete skill. Keyboarding is worthwhile.

Shorthand?! We didn't even learn that in the '80. Somehow I got through two degrees without knowing shorthand and I was still able to keep up with taking notes. (I also ditched cursive the second I got to college.)