{"id":4812,"date":"2003-12-30T11:03:13","date_gmt":"2003-12-30T18:03:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/?p=4812"},"modified":"2003-12-30T11:03:13","modified_gmt":"2003-12-30T18:03:13","slug":"the_write_stuff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2003\/12\/30\/the_write_stuff.html","title":{"rendered":"The Write Stuff"},"content":{"rendered":"

So, is there still a need to teach cursive handwriting<\/a>?<\/p>\n

Based on this story, the question is up in the air. Kids today are more fluent on keyboards, and national penmanship skills continue to decline. Couple that with the increased emphasis on academics in schools, and handwriting lessons seem doomed.<\/p>\n

Boy. I hate to see an artistic skill dropped by thw wayside. Just like arguments about calculators, there remain — and, I daresay, will always remain — instances where technical goodies like computers and calculators are either not available, or else are far less convenient to use.<\/p>\n

On the other hand, as someone who almost never writes in cursive — I returned to “block lettering” as my default as soon as I was allowed to, and thus, paradoxically, can still handwrite beautifully — I’m not sure I have much standing in the debate. Certainly 99% of the words I write are keyed in, and the remaining 1% are written longhand, not in cursive.<\/p>\n

This would be an interesting one to flash-forward fifty years out to see where things are. Will cursive handwriting largely die out? Will it become a sign of culture and class? Or will a good reason to continue to teach it be discovered.<\/p>\n

It’s odd thinking that Katherine might not be taught something in school that I was taught.<\/p>\n

(via Sake of Argument<\/a>)<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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