Real Life Adventures by Gary Wise and Lance Aldrich for December 05, 2016

I want to laugh at this… but it’s so sad!

Who could ever read it? Doctors are adept at making it look like hieroglyphics. For reasons unknown people are in favor of teaching it again.

The fine liberal demodrat school system at its finest…..

Some school districts think it’s a curse to teach cursive…

There is nothing wrong with learning cursive handwriting, the trouble comes from the people who apparently CAN’T learn it, so nobody else can read their scribbles.

Why wouldn’t the mom be able to read her own handwriting?

My problem with cursive is that I have effective tremor. My uncial is difficult enough for me to read two hours later.

I can’t read my cursive sometimes. Then again, as a reporter, I have to write fast when taking notes. Good thing I also record interviews.

I seem to be the only living person who can transliterate my mother’s handwriting. Once I’m gone the kids will have a tough time figuring out what she wrote. OTOH, they will be able to figure out my father’s IF they can figure out his spellings.

Farside99

Do you have 200 proof of that? The old name for effective tremor was senile palsy. It is hereditary, strikes in old age, and there is no cure. I understand there are drugs out there that can calm it down, all of which have the side effect of zonking one to a near zombie state. Besides, in my family, one is either a teetotaler or at least a compulsive drinker, if not full alcoholic. I can live with varying episodes of shakes, but not a drinking problem.

Of course I can read cursive, at least most. I not only learned it, but could use it through my 70s. After all, I was once a museum modeller (mostly in Canada, thus the spelling). I had rather good manual dexterity in my day. I took notes in college, I have been a reporter using cursive and my own form of shorthand before a sufficiently portable recording device existed. And, I am hardly opposed to cursive and don’t know where you got the idea I was. I ran for Texas State Board of Education before this nonsense started or I would have had it on my platform.