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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: 616318" data-attributes="member: 1967"><p>Insane, it sounds like Canadian schools are very different than American schools . . . at least the district that I teach in. Here, we have very specific skills that need to be taught at each grade level. If cursive is a skill that is determined to be an essential skill, then every teacher in the district in that grade level has to teach cursive writing using books and materials selected by the school district. And the district that I teach in has over 120,000 students.</p><p></p><p>I agree that printing is still important as well as grammar and spelling and those things are still taught in Language Arts classes (at least in my school district). However, I can see the argument against teaching cursive writing especially when you think about how cursive writing changes over time. When I look at artifacts from the Civil War written by American soldiers, I can hardly decipher what they say. European cursive is different than ours, too.</p><p></p><p>by the way, I finished my Educational Specialist degree about five years ago. Even though every student in the class was an adult who knew cursive writing, every single one of us brought a laptop and took all of our notes on our computers.</p><p></p><p>One more thing, if I was my child's hospital bedside taking notes, I would pull out my Ipad or computer since I can type much, much faster than I can write and would be able to take much better notes by typing but that's just me. Since all of my doctors are now using tablets to take notes and keep records on their patients, I am sure that they wouldn't mind waiting a few seconds for me to turn on my Ipad.</p><p></p><p>~Kathy</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Kathy813, post: 616318, member: 1967"] Insane, it sounds like Canadian schools are very different than American schools . . . at least the district that I teach in. Here, we have very specific skills that need to be taught at each grade level. If cursive is a skill that is determined to be an essential skill, then every teacher in the district in that grade level has to teach cursive writing using books and materials selected by the school district. And the district that I teach in has over 120,000 students. I agree that printing is still important as well as grammar and spelling and those things are still taught in Language Arts classes (at least in my school district). However, I can see the argument against teaching cursive writing especially when you think about how cursive writing changes over time. When I look at artifacts from the Civil War written by American soldiers, I can hardly decipher what they say. European cursive is different than ours, too. by the way, I finished my Educational Specialist degree about five years ago. Even though every student in the class was an adult who knew cursive writing, every single one of us brought a laptop and took all of our notes on our computers. One more thing, if I was my child's hospital bedside taking notes, I would pull out my Ipad or computer since I can type much, much faster than I can write and would be able to take much better notes by typing but that's just me. Since all of my doctors are now using tablets to take notes and keep records on their patients, I am sure that they wouldn't mind waiting a few seconds for me to turn on my Ipad. ~Kathy [/QUOTE]
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