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Yikes! Honor roll teens "can't read/write cursive"..huh?
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<blockquote data-quote="Kathy813" data-source="post: 616241" data-attributes="member: 1967"><p>DDD, I hate to say this but cursive is quickly becoming a lost art. When I proctor the SAT, there is a section where the students have to copy an honor code in cursive. It takes them literally 10 minutes to write the three sentences. I had one boy almost start crying when he told me he didn't know how to write in cursive.</p><p></p><p>I didn't know what to tell him so I called in the testing supervisor. He told the boy to print and then connect the bottom of the letters. When they write the essay part, every single student prints rather than use cursive to write the essay.</p><p></p><p>Many schools are not even teaching cursive anymore. The district I teach in does but doesn't spend much time on it. The prevalent thinking seems to be that technology has made the need to learn cursive obsolete.</p><p></p><p>I have to say that I don't write much anymore and I have noticed that my cursive handwriting has gone downhill as a result. I type everything, though, and rarely have a need to write anything.</p><p></p><p>~Kathy</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Kathy813, post: 616241, member: 1967"] DDD, I hate to say this but cursive is quickly becoming a lost art. When I proctor the SAT, there is a section where the students have to copy an honor code in cursive. It takes them literally 10 minutes to write the three sentences. I had one boy almost start crying when he told me he didn't know how to write in cursive. I didn't know what to tell him so I called in the testing supervisor. He told the boy to print and then connect the bottom of the letters. When they write the essay part, every single student prints rather than use cursive to write the essay. Many schools are not even teaching cursive anymore. The district I teach in does but doesn't spend much time on it. The prevalent thinking seems to be that technology has made the need to learn cursive obsolete. I have to say that I don't write much anymore and I have noticed that my cursive handwriting has gone downhill as a result. I type everything, though, and rarely have a need to write anything. ~Kathy [/QUOTE]
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