Schools have less time for penmanship

deafdyke said:
Yes exactly. In addition to being hoh, I also have mild low muscle tone. That in turn makes it hard for me to do fine motor skill things. It's a lot easier for me to print or type. That way I can concentrate on CONTENT rather then how a letter looks.
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I think care should be taken with students who have medical conditions that might make writing cursive hard, e.g. low muscle tone.
 
flyingace said:
oh, good-in twenty years, old people will be able to write notes to each other in longhand, and the young'uns won't know what we're saying!

This makes me sad.
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we'll be the ones who tell our grandchildren, "i remember when we used to write with pencil/pen and paper" and they'll ask, "you mean you didn't use computers?" :giggle:
 
Jiro said:
...one time I was pretty bored. I literally filled the Composition Book in one day with a fountain pen (and 2 refills)
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Ah, fountain pens! The memories. :) When I learned to write cursive, we used fountain pens. We had ink wells (holes) in our wooden desktops for the ink bottles, and we brought paper ink blotters to school. It was kinda messy but also kinda cool. Loading up a fountain pen was fun. :P
 
Reba said:
Ah, fountain pens! The memories. :) When I learned to write cursive, we used fountain pens. We had ink wells (holes) in our wooden desktops for the ink bottles, and we brought paper ink blotters to school. It was kinda messy but also kinda cool. Loading up a fountain pen was fun. :P
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We were forbidden to use fountain pens. The only pens that were allowed in my school were blue ballpoint pens.
 
Hear Again said:
we'll be the ones who tell our grandchildren, "i remember when we used to write with pencil/pen and paper" and they'll ask, "you mean you didn't use computers?" :giggle:
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yeah, we didn't have computers, DVDs, digital cameras, cell phones, iPods, etc. They're going to stare at us like we did when the oldsters talked about having to go outside to use the outhouse in the middle of winter! :lol:
 
Secretblend said:
One thing I've always wondered, what is the point of writing in cursive?
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time yourself that takes to write a sentence in cursive.... and then compare it to the time it takes you to write a sentence in print.
 
Reba said:
Ah, fountain pens! The memories. :) When I learned to write cursive, we used fountain pens. We had ink wells (holes) in our wooden desktops for the ink bottles, and we brought paper ink blotters to school. It was kinda messy but also kinda cool. Loading up a fountain pen was fun. :P
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lol I did try loading up my fountain pen... boy was it messy! I need to find me a nice sentimental wooden fountain pen but.... it's surprisingly expensive.
 
Secretblend said:
One thing I've always wondered, what is the point of writing in cursive?
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Whats the point of learining Latin? Not very much so now unless you receive it via higher education; but 200 yrs ago in schools here in USA it was very customary and appropriate. But times, trends, needs, and technology changed. Cursive, though deemed proper or even a more intellectual mannerisim of communication, may drift away with demands of future societal requirements.
 
I prefer cursive writing; printing is too slow for me.

My cursive writing is not the best. When I was in second grade, we moved from one Coast to the other in the middle of the school year. The school that I left was still printing. The school that I entered had been using cursive writing for several months. The teacher didn't have time to teach me, so she gave me the penmanship book and told me to copy from it. So I was more or less self taught. :P

When my parents divorced and my Dad moved away, my brother and I kept in touch by writing many letters to my Dad. My Dad, an electrical engineer, gave us pads of graphing paper for stationary. He wanted us to keep our lines straight when we wrote. :lol:
 
Reba said:
I prefer cursive writing; printing is too slow for me.

My cursive writing is not the best. When I was in second grade, we moved from one Coast to the other in the middle of the school year. The school that I left was still printing. The school that I entered had been using cursive writing for several months. The teacher didn't have time to teach me, so she gave me the penmanship book and told me to copy from it. So I was more or less self taught. :P

When my parents divorced and my Dad moved away, my brother and I kept in touch by writing many letters to my Dad. My Dad, an electrical engineer, gave us pads of graphing paper for stationary. He wanted us to keep our lines straight when we wrote. :lol:
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i still can't write straight on plain white paper. :mad2:
 
hohDougRN said:
Whats the point of learining Latin? Not very much so now unless you receive it via higher education; but 200 yrs ago in schools here in USA it was very customary and appropriate. But times, trends, needs, and technology changed. Cursive, though deemed proper or even a more intellectual mannerisim of communication, may drift away with demands of future societal requirements.
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Hey, I took Latin my freshman year in high school, and it wasn't 200 years ago! :lol:
 
Jiro said:
it's time consuming and it causes hand cramp. cursive is much faster.
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Cursive and print take the same amount of time to write for me. And both of them give me hand cramps. I guess that explains it--cursive is some how easier to write for most people. Maybe it has to do with the fact that I'm left-handed and cursive is designed for right-handed people?
 
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