“So, my daughter is going into the third grade this year and guess what they’re teaching her… Cursive! Who the hell writes in Cursive?! What a useless skill. It’d be so much more valuable if they taught them all how to set up WordPress or something useful!”
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What a fucking travesty. I love cursive and I use it all the time. My friend Petro is about 4 years younger than I am (27, I think) and he admitted to me a couple of years ago that he had completely lost the ability to write in cursive. He could still read it, but when he went to write it, he just couldn’t do it. That admission caused me to practice my upper-case and lower-case cursive letters over and over that night.
As a handwriting instruction and remediation specialist — I do a lot of work helping MDs, who write as cursively (if illegibly) as anyone! — I’d like to let you in on the big secret that cursive teachers don’t want you to know:
Research (citation on request) has established that the fastest and clearest handwriters avoid cursive. Highest-speed highest-legibility handwriters use very print-like (instead of cursive-looking!) shapes for letters whose printed and cursive forms “disagree” — also, highest-speed highest-legibility handwriters tend to join only some, not all, the letters in their words. (They make the very easiest joins and skip the rest).
For more on this best-kept secret of successful handwriting and successful handwriters, visit http://www.HandwritingThatWorks.com — and make sure your children and their teachers see it too.
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