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Post by FB fan on Feb 27, 2012 8:07:45 GMT -6
Want to keep a secret from your student ager. Write it in cursive and put it on the fridge. Most can't read it. Is your school teaching handwriting? Many are not.
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Post by warcat82 on Feb 27, 2012 8:28:06 GMT -6
Want to keep a secret from your student ager. Write it in cursive and put it on the fridge. Most can't read it. Is your school teaching handwriting? Many are not. This is true... I only know of a few schools who teach it anymore, and actually continue to use it.... There are several schools that teach it to check it off their to do list then have the kids go back to printing the rest of the year. The higher grades do not even bother with it and many of the more wealthy districts even provide laptops and such for the kids to take notes and do their homework on instead of having them even print it out... Our education system is so caught up on test taking strategies that they forget to teach our kids true skills that will be used in life... "No child left behind"= "our country suffers because our future is poorly educated and can't handle real life"= "every child is left behind".... Anyway it's sad to see education the way it is now.... Although I will say with their version of words they might as well be writing in Greek because they have a language all their own as grammatically poor as it may be, so they might be leaving notes next to our cursive notes equally as puzzling to us and in need of translation into English as our cursive notes are in need of translation into whatever language they've created for themselves (it's dang sure not english)
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Post by gpjohn on Feb 27, 2012 8:57:36 GMT -6
I'll be the first to admit my handwriting is terrible. I just hardly ever write anything anymore. When i do its a cross between printing and cursive. I know my HS senior son can barely write legibly.
Prof Boogaire, what do you see your students doing? Cursive or printing, or is everything done on computer?
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Post by CC_Varmints on Feb 27, 2012 9:10:58 GMT -6
Handwriting has evolved over the Centuries. The English language has evolved itself. Shorthand and dictation are a thing of the past as well. But the one thing that has stayed through it all is a person's signature on documents. The technological advancements have sidestepped written signatures on some documents, but not all documents. A person's signature is usually in cursive. Printed signatures were usually by those that were not taught cursive. My handwriting is horrible as we moved to Denver, CO, when I was between 1st and 2nd Grade. We moved back when I was in the 3rd Grade. Denver Schools were going to teach cursive the second semester of 3rd Grade. Where we moved to had already taught cursive in the 2nd Grade. I had to learn on my own. All three of my sons were taught cursive, but my youngest son who is Autistic struggles with it like I do. It is a shame if cursive handwriting becomes a thing of the past since it has survived many other language and handwriting transitions.
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Post by Clemensbuff on Feb 27, 2012 10:52:57 GMT -6
They still teach it at SCUCISD.
But, if I was to write in cursive, I'll promise you it would take a hand writing expert to comprehend it unless I wrote at 1.25 words per minute! The problem is, I cannot force myself to write that slowly. LOL
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Post by gpjohn on Feb 27, 2012 11:49:41 GMT -6
Thats my problem. I can think much faster than I can write, so I speed up my handwriting until it is incomprehensible. I use a lot of personal shorthand, so I know what I mean, but nobody else does!
On the other hand, many of our fellow posters (present company excluded of course) can type faster than they can think.....hence some of the posts on this forum!
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Post by DD Booger on Feb 27, 2012 15:21:45 GMT -6
More print, and I have even seen internet jargon (lol, wth, smh, haha) slip in to their writing. They don't even know they're doing it.
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Post by DD Booger on Feb 27, 2012 15:22:55 GMT -6
I use a lot of short hand when doing field research and it is entirely illegible to anyone but me.
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Post by warcat82 on Feb 27, 2012 16:56:36 GMT -6
I was joking with my dr. one time about all dr.'s writing being illegible and jokingly said what the heck do y'all take classes on how to write illegible and he was like yep we sure do it's called script writing (as in prescription) I was like seriously and he said yeah it's a combination of shorthand and codes so no one else knows what we are saying.... I was like oh ok I was just kidding but now I know why it all looks similar.... Could you imagine if we all came up with code writing to hide from the children based on our playing days using play calls lol that would be so fun watching their heads spin from being so confused :-)
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Post by flowtowntigers on Feb 27, 2012 17:41:57 GMT -6
I have chicken scratch for handwriting skills and that's an insult to the chickens.
I been writing in print since I can remember and getting my degree in drafting print lettering was heavily stressed. If I had to hand write a HELP letter in cursive to save my life I would be SOL
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Post by Deleted on Feb 28, 2012 8:35:00 GMT -6
I was joking with my dr. one time about all dr.'s writing being illegible and jokingly said what the heck do y'all take classes on how to write illegible and he was like yep we sure do it's called script writing (as in prescription) I was like seriously and he said yeah it's a combination of shorthand and codes so no one else knows what we are saying.... I was like oh ok I was just kidding but now I know why it all looks similar.... Could you imagine if we all came up with code writing to hide from the children based on our playing days using play calls lol that would be so fun watching their heads spin from being so confused :-) It's kind of funny watching Docs adapt to the new technology in the way of laptops and tablet devices. Even the younger ones look like they have never used a keyboard as you sit their in the exam room while they punch each key on at a time. I'm sure the Pharmacists appreciate the new technology that allows for the scripts to be sent to them electronically.
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Post by CC_Varmints on Feb 28, 2012 14:01:22 GMT -6
I was joking with my dr. one time about all dr.'s writing being illegible and jokingly said what the heck do y'all take classes on how to write illegible and he was like yep we sure do it's called script writing (as in prescription) I was like seriously and he said yeah it's a combination of shorthand and codes so no one else knows what we are saying.... I was like oh ok I was just kidding but now I know why it all looks similar.... Could you imagine if we all came up with code writing to hide from the children based on our playing days using play calls lol that would be so fun watching their heads spin from being so confused :-) It's kind of funny watching Docs adapt to the new technology in the way of laptops and tablet devices. Even the younger ones look like they have never used a keyboard as you sit their in the exam room while they punch each key on at a time. I'm sure the Pharmacists appreciate the new technology that allows for the scripts to be sent to them electronically. My cousin is a Doctor and he struggles with computers/ email. He can work his Smartphone pretty good though. Technology is over his head and yet he can do intricate and difficult medical procedures???
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