Instead the day is spent on social acceptance; self-acceptance, social behavior, self-behavior, self-control, anti-bullying, study habits, etc – the things that used to be taught at home before the kid went to school.
There are probably things less important to learn than cursive, but off hand I can’t think of any. I’ve maybe used it .. twice in the past forty years or so?
Thanks to common Core, all teachers teach is HOW to take a TEST! Then they assign hours of homework….dumbing down America seems to be catching on….The Boob Tube is vile and worse than ever. When they took away the standards of curriculum we used to have, America has sunk to the bottom of the list compared to other countries. Bill Gates, Obama, the governors of the US implemented this and it’s the worst thing they could have ever done. Idiots. Just because Gates is rich, doesn’t mean he knows what he’s doing…he can take his ideas and shove them. Everyone caves to PC and it’s ruining America as we knew it!
Thousands of years ago we recorded events on stone in hieroglyphs, which have survived to this day. Then we invented parchment, papyrus and a written language, some of the oldest surviving samples being about two thousand years old. Then we switched to paper and the printed page. Books became cheap and common. Most copies wear out and are gone after maybe 500 years. We invented cheaper, more modern paper and most new books don’t last 50 years. Then we started putting all documents on electronic devices and not keeping paper copies so that we began to need to worry about the collected knowledge of humanity being lost if there is a collapse in the electronic or computer systems. Meanwhile people returned to using hieroglyphs (emojis) in their private communications. The written word is falling out of usage again. At the rate we are losing permanence in the storage of information our society will disintegrate within a century, especially if we get hit with another Carrington Event.
marilynnbyerly over 3 years ago
It’s coming back. It’s been tied to brain development.
mddshubby2005 over 3 years ago
What the #$%^ is hard about cursive writing?
Baarorso over 3 years ago
“Writing’s a dying art”? Considering the literary quality of some of the posts I see on the internet these days, there’s a grain of truth to that.;/
B UTTONS over 3 years ago
Schools no longer have time to teach the 3 Rs.
Instead the day is spent on social acceptance; self-acceptance, social behavior, self-behavior, self-control, anti-bullying, study habits, etc – the things that used to be taught at home before the kid went to school.
some idiot from R'lyeh Premium Member over 3 years ago
There are probably things less important to learn than cursive, but off hand I can’t think of any. I’ve maybe used it .. twice in the past forty years or so?
Zebrastripes over 3 years ago
Thanks to common Core, all teachers teach is HOW to take a TEST! Then they assign hours of homework….dumbing down America seems to be catching on….The Boob Tube is vile and worse than ever. When they took away the standards of curriculum we used to have, America has sunk to the bottom of the list compared to other countries. Bill Gates, Obama, the governors of the US implemented this and it’s the worst thing they could have ever done. Idiots. Just because Gates is rich, doesn’t mean he knows what he’s doing…he can take his ideas and shove them. Everyone caves to PC and it’s ruining America as we knew it!
theincrediblebulk over 3 years ago
Thousands of years ago we recorded events on stone in hieroglyphs, which have survived to this day. Then we invented parchment, papyrus and a written language, some of the oldest surviving samples being about two thousand years old. Then we switched to paper and the printed page. Books became cheap and common. Most copies wear out and are gone after maybe 500 years. We invented cheaper, more modern paper and most new books don’t last 50 years. Then we started putting all documents on electronic devices and not keeping paper copies so that we began to need to worry about the collected knowledge of humanity being lost if there is a collapse in the electronic or computer systems. Meanwhile people returned to using hieroglyphs (emojis) in their private communications. The written word is falling out of usage again. At the rate we are losing permanence in the storage of information our society will disintegrate within a century, especially if we get hit with another Carrington Event.