Handwriting

Celestiamoon, My son just finished 3rd grade. Not only did his class learn cursive writing, when they finished learning all the letters/forms, they had to do all of their work in cursive for the rest of the year! I was pretty impressed with that, although a lot of the students could use more practise in print. Then again, I've been told that in fourth grade they go back to print for everything....I do think that they should be required to continue to practise this skill for as long as they can, so I don't think you're crazy at all:)

Hi Celeste'-my grandson starts school in september and I went to the induction to the school with my daughter when being shown reound the school there computers on the tables and on the wall that teachers use-I was totally amazed and shocked-then my daughter said that her son had been using the computer at preschool for the past 2mnths!! Personally I think its a very sorry state of affairs and rather disgusting that children are not being taught how to use their brain etc rather than become reliant on all the technology we have these days at such a young age-your friend littleowl

Oh yes they do Penmenship was so good and I think they need to leran to write for it is becomeing a lost art now that they dont teach it any more thats dumb what id puers go out of style ! lol

While I think that this is outrageous, I somehow don't feel surprised at all. I mean, this is something predictable, as technology develops and holds a deeper stronghold on our society. In fact, I've heard it before that a person actually said that in about 20 years down the road, all schools should be using computers and students don't have to handwrite anymore. I guess that's the "poison" of technology and we humans are really depending too much on it. I remember reading a comic book outlining this scenario, and humans' physical strength and ability will get weaker as they rely on robots and machines for their daily activities. I guess that's just the way we are heading unless the authorities really take some measures to overcome this. Let's start a protest!!!!

Neither one of my younger two learned. My daughter wouldn't have been able to anyway so for her it makes no difference. I do find that they can't even read handwriting.

even though computer can help us most of the time. but i still think handwriting should be paid high attention. i myself do not have a good handwriting. everytime i saw other's nice handwriting, i admire them quite a lot. after my child go to school, i will definately ask him to excercise his handwriting until it is good enough.

I think that's outrageous! I would be pushing for the immediate firing of every school official involved in making that bonehead decision. Taking away a child's knowledge or a skill as important as written communication is something that no parent should stand still for.

Personally, I hated hand-writting. I'm left handed and no matter how much Mom had me do the assignments, my writting never got better. The best I can do is name and pen-names and that's about it. I NEVER write to someone using cursive. I'll print and type. But, that's about it. However, you can really see why kids these days don't do that, with the computer and all. Assignments usually have to be done on the computer.