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they don't need to know how to write it or read it because nobody uses it anymore except to write their signature

Where is this? I give out spelling, phonics, and writing packets to be completed a page a day in resources - actually it's printing for the younger students, but when they got through that we started beginning cursive early and they were so excited! It was darn near unreadable at first but improved so much in just a couple weeks. They loved it.

If you can't write in cursive, how can you sign your own name?

I'm an educator and I agree with you. How would they know how to sign their signature on their paychecks. Cursive writing is important to many and should be taught and used atleast for the next half of this century.

I was taught to read and write in cursive and as an adult barely need it. Most people's cursive writing, adults older than I, have atrocious handwriting to the point I've asked them to just print.

And signing a name is really as simple as putting your name down on a piece of paper. I sign things, like my license and checks in print, and they still work. With more things being signed electronically cursive for certain things is becoming obsolete. It's more cute than anything. (Plus you can barely tell the difference and many just sign with a line anyway.)

And honestly...I have a hard time writing handwriting from say the 1800's or even the 30's because the style is different. And many times it's been reprinted in print for you to read.

What is written in script anymore? Nothing, that's what. You may not like it but get with the times. It's anoutdated form of communication. I'm 40 & haven't written anythin in script aside from my signature in over 25 years. I'm getting by just fine.

I believe that cursive writing isn't important other than your signature on a check thats the only cursive I do. I could never write good in cursive I sucked at it my second grade teacher told me to write in print my 4TH grade teacher tryed to teach me just couldn't get it.

I agree. My 15 year old hands me his birthday cards from his grandmothers to read to him because he can't read their cursive. And they both have very neat writing. His own printing looks like chicken scratching. I don't know how his teachers read it.

Gc
same with telling time most have only seen digital clocks. My son instead of it being 12:40 he says .10 mins past 12:30. How about that metric conversion they tried that when i was in school in the "70 taking longer then they thought lol every Country in the free world uses metric, not USA

In response to no one writes in cursive anymore-I'm an RN in an inner city hospital. We haven't made it to the online world of charting yet- so all of our notes about patient care and narrative work in the charts is in cursive. (This is because if it isn't charted, it isn't done, legally) However, I would like to concede the point that the younger the nurse is, the poorer the cursive is. I'm 35 and I was certainly taught it in school, I remember specifically bringing home examples of my writing and practicing at night on the special lined paper. Also, cursive is necessary to sign your name!

Well, we can't teach ourselves. I believe that's your* generation's responsibility.

or then and than

I am Adjunct Faculty at Columbia College - Chicago. The lack of writing and communication skills in students is a disgrace. Further problem is that the majority of the students do not seem to care that they lack these skills. Good luck to them trying to get a job. When I review/grade assignments I stop when I get to three mistakes (spelling, gramar or just plain structure) and return the assignment to the student with note suggesting that they go to the Writing Center (provided by Columbia) to get help and then turn in revised assignment. They can choose not to do this but they will not get credit for turning in the assignemtn and future assignments will be treated the same way. Since assignemtns and term projects combine for about 50% of grade they can choose to pass or fail.

then you have the dumbest kids ever. Where are they being taught in the hood????

NONE of them? You need to learn the difference between fact and opinion, and not exaggerate.

They are taught their, they're and there but some of them do not pay attention, and some don't care. Some of their parents don't care. It is something that tells employers whether they paid attention though.

I have to say that every older person I know doesn't seem to misspell or misuse words, and writes a nice script. I remember the letters being put up all around the room in 3rd grade, when we learned script. I think it's pretty important to see the way it should look.

I also think it's important to correct misspellings, and they will live through it. I think the best gift you can give a school age child is their own dictonary... and when they get a little older, a family encyclopedia is sure nice. It teaches them to check and research, and basically they can find out anything they want. They may even learn the difference between doing research and searching the web, and there is a difference - any college teacher can tell you that.

I'm with you on this geckofan2004. It drives me crazy to see how poorly people write these days. It's not just teens, either. I think it's pretty much all the generations younger than the baby boomers. That's when the new crop of teachers in the '70s started saying things like, "Spelling and grammar don't matter, as long as I understand the point you're trying to make." That was the beginning of the end. It's amazing that people who can't form a proper sentence are getting college degrees and even more distressing that they aren't even embarrassed that they don't know the difference between their, there and they're. They make you out to be the one with the problem for giving a sh*t about the slow degradation of our society.

LOL how do you know how old I am? it's as though you're proud of being ignorant