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If the written word was merely a form of conveying information and nothing more then I would agree with you. But simply saying "it isn't art" is modern philistinism. There is a reason we had a thing called "penmanship" at one time. Writing is both a means of communication and an art.
Taking away cursive writing classes does nothing to enrich the lives of our children. I think we are better served by keeping this and every art we can in place.
That’s all well and good if you have the resources to keep a barber on staff.......
I bought a straight razor with bristle brush and shaving soap; I still use the brush and the soap, but the razor scares the crap outta me.
Recently, as a stopgap measure, I completed a holographic will, using cursive, which I assume was necessary to prove it was written by me.
In today's age of overwhelmingly digital communications? Cursive adds nothing, is useless and detracts from time and effort best spend elsewhere.
To compare it to drawing, painting and orchestra is asinine. Cursive isn't fine art.
What a waste. Why not teach the kids how to use an 8 track player or use flashbulbs, or how to manually dial a phone?
Things like handwriting and hand stitching might be useless themselves but they train your hands and eyes in a way that might be useful elsewhere.
I wrote a boring little thing about it in #31.
Eh, I have carpal tunnel in both hands....most likely caused by nuns rapping my hands with the ruler because my handwriting was so bad. And for what? I can type, they are all dead now.:lol:
Your hands wake you up at night?
They used to, I had surgery on both, one about 10 years ago, and one about 6 years before that. Great surgeon, you cannot see any scar. Sadly, he died a few years ago, he crashed his floatplane on a lake in Montana.
Eh, I have carpal tunnel in both hands....most likely caused by nuns rapping my hands with the ruler because my handwriting was so bad. And for what? I can type, they are all dead now.:lol:
I put off the surgery for years. What a dumbass! They would wake me and there was nothing I could do to get the tingling to stop. Late last year, did the first and in Jan did the other. I should have acted sooner.
I support this fully - as art and communication. After learning cursive in the 2nd-3rd grade, I use it exclusively. My print is horrid.
ETA: I'm a Native Texan :2wave:
When I first saw a classroom, there were green backed placards placed above the chalk-boards with three white lines delineating upper and lower case cursive for all letters of the alphabet.
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