Cursive writing never out of style in Catholic schools

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mikekle said:
You are right, things come and go fairly quickly, I think even at some point, there wont be a need for typing anymore, (name removed by moderator)ut will be done thru another advanced method.

Its kind of funny if you think about it, computers today are so powerful and advanced, but still using the basic keyboard, same as computers back in the early 90s! I know there are speech to text programs that utilize a microphone, but strange that no one has come up with anything more advanced to replace the keyboard yet.
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When I lost my vision a few years ago, I thought microphone driven programs were going to be my salvation-WRONG-they stink! Except for JAWS which cost a fortune they are way underdeveloped and not ready for prime time. Speaking into the mic and hearing it read back would send me and anyone in earshot into fits of side splitting laughter!:rotfl::rotfl: Window Eyes and such can’t actually run everything by voice either so I was left asking for help and still having to use a mouse pointer and keyboard I couldn’t see. Praise God I had surgery last year and got some sight back and can use my phone normally-I now do everything on it and hardly touch a PC. The days of the human voice replacing keyboards for everything are still science fiction so yes the poor kids will still have hand cramps for the foreseeable future.
 
elsker said:
When I lost my vision a few years ago, I thought microphone driven programs were going to be my salvation-WRONG-they stink! Except for JAWS which cost a fortune they are way underdeveloped and not ready for prime time. Speaking into the mic and hearing it read back would send me and anyone in earshot into fits of side splitting laughter!:rotfl::rotfl: Window Eyes and such can’t actually run everything by voice either so I was left asking for help and still having to use a mouse pointer and keyboard I couldn’t see. Praise God I had surgery last year and got some sight back and can use my phone normally-I now do everything on it and hardly touch a PC. The days of the human voice replacing keyboards for everything are still science fiction so yes the poor kids will still have hand cramps for the foreseeable future.
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If someone invents a way to use mental telepathy, will we no longer teach our kids to talk. I would surly miss my grandkids saying, I love you grandma. God Bless, Memaw
 
Tigg said:
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Can’t they even analyze personalities via handwriting? If I have to retain something, I will write it out - sometimes even more than once so it sticks because typing just doesn’t do it for me. I am a Catholic school survivor and still sneeze when I think of the chalk dust. 🙂
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I was the same way, I found I retained the information better if I wrote out the notes the night before a big test, I did pretty good in my 2 years of college thanks to this.

I also remember having to take the chalkboard erasers outside every day to clean them out!

I remember I was also told frequently I had good penmanship, many people told me this was a very good skill to have, well, not so much in todays world. I can only imagine the kids we see today that have good typing skills, we tell them this is an good skill to have…I would bet later on in their life, they will find this is going to be useless as well.

Just the nature of progress I guess.
 
I suppose you can have machines that paint artwork.
You can have programs that write poetry.
You can have cars that drive themselves.
But the human element and the joy that ding it yourself brings…you can’t replicate those feelings artificially.
A handwritten note means more than any pre-printed Christmas card.
 
I wonder when the last time handwriting analysis was used in a court case to prove guilt or innocence? Just curios!
 
I’ll be completely honest. The only thing they need cursive for is their signatures.

Outside that, it’s about as useful as calligraphy. Which, while being very pretty, is not a skill that’s likely to help children later in life.

As some before me have said. It’s more advantageous that they learn how to type quickly.
 
mikekle said:
Im hoping the parents of all these kids have sense enough to teach their kids this skill at home if the schools are not going to teach it.

I agree, Keyboard skills are important right now, but thats no guarantee it will be the same in 30, 50 years…maybe by then, it will be something completely different?

Also, the argument could be made, why do kids even need to learn to write at all anymore, since computers, handheld devices are becoming so prevalent.
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And what happens if and when all that crashes and it very well may. Do we want our kids to stand around and say DAA ? The human brain NEEDs to be well educated in Reading. writing and rithmatic… just in case. An I might add spelling and true history. God Bless, memaw
 
Memaw said:
And what happens if and when all that crashes and it very well may. Do we want our kids to stand around and say DAA ? The human brain NEEDs to be well educated in Reading. writing and rithmatic… just in case. An I might add spelling and true history. God Bless, memaw
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This is off-topic, but what do you consider true history?
 
Convert_in_99 said:
This is no different than the abandonment of calligraphy in days of old. No one used it anymore so the norm was switched to cursive. Now cursive is no longer as needed so they are beginning the switch to only print. When a child has to learn two writing styles already (printing and efficient typing) then something else not as needed has to go.

I see nothing wrong with it. It’s just a writing style. And how many kids even write anymore? 🤷
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I give our ability to learn much more credit than that. There are plenty of other things that could be left out besides writing. Calligraphy is a form of art.God Bless, Memaw
 
Hurry up! Hurry up!
This is the same attitude that hurries people out of their hospital beds for someone with better insurance.
When people pay big bucks to therapists who advise them to “slow down, take time for yourself” we tell our kids to hurry up.
Makes no sense. Everything worth doing takes time. racticality has its own reasons for hurrying along, true enough, but that doesn’t mean others ways are obsolete.
 
elsker said:
I have to hand write all my school notes in order to retain what’s in the lectures. What’s funny about the argument about keyboarding skills is a lot of young people fail typing tests for jobs that require 65 wpm while supposedly doing all their work on laptops. I was interviewing for a job and saw 20 somethings being turned away because they couldn’t meet even 55 wpm to interview. This was mind-blowing considering that generation grew up with the pc and laptop! So what does this leave? Pretty fast textting in truncated text speak??? EEEK! My gosh that’s almost illiteracy. IMHO
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I can do 45 wpm using hunt-and-peck.
 
pianistclare said:
Handwriting is so personal. It’s an extension of the person. It should be valued.
Who cares if typing or keyboarding is prevalent?
Why is that the deciding factor?
I hope cursive continues. The kids who print their homework write the bare minimum because it’s fairly tiring. I agree with Kendra; if you’re taking notes, cursive is quicker.
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I use a mix of cursive and printing, if I have to try to write quickly. I also use a few shorthands, such as a straight horizontal line which suddenly angles down to the left (think of clock hands at quarter-to-seven) to mean “-ing”, a superscript “n” with a dot beneath to mean “-(a)tion”, etc.

I can still write, but my handwriting is not very pretty. My printing is better, perhaps because I am forced to print more slowly.

My aunt hates her handwriting – she taught herself pretty much – but I think her handwriting is gorgeous, I think it’s almost calligraphic, full of swashes and flourishes. I am going to try to gather as many examples as I can and try to digitize a font out of it.
 
WillyAL said:
Do what every MD in the world does…make totally unreadable chicken scratches.
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When you sign your name a lot, that happens. My brother and I had different writing styles when we were growing up but I had a chance to see our signatures side by side a few years ago. You couldn’t tell one from the other.
 
I would guess that shorthand is going to disappear as well. We had one older secretary at my former office who still knew how to do it. I taught myself how to do it in order to take fast, accurate notes during interviews. Once, when my notes were subpoenaed, the attorney had no way to decipher them because they couldn’t find anyone in their office who still knew the system and they had to ask me to come in and read them.
 
John_Lazarus said:
I use a mix of cursive and printing, if I have to try to write quickly. I also use a few shorthands, such as a straight horizontal line which suddenly angles down to the left (think of clock hands at quarter-to-seven) to mean “-ing”, a superscript “n” with a dot beneath to mean “-(a)tion”, etc.

I can still write, but my handwriting is not very pretty. My printing is better, perhaps because I am forced to print more slowly.

My aunt hates her handwriting – she taught herself pretty much – but I think her handwriting is gorgeous, I think it’s almost calligraphic, full of swashes and flourishes. I am going to try to gather as many examples as I can and try to digitize a font out of it.
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Cool idea! I have a friend that writes like that. I never thought of doing that. Her daughter is a graphic designer. Do you think she could that?
 
Arizona_Mike said:
I would guess that shorthand is going to disappear as well. We had one older secretary at my former office who still knew how to do it. I taught myself how to do it in order to take fast, accurate notes during interviews. Once, when my notes were subpoenaed, the attorney had no way to decipher them because they couldn’t find anyone in their office who still knew the system and they had to ask me to come in and read them.
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Oh, I still remember my older sister’s mountain of steno pads…she was amazing at shorthand. She worked as a legal secretary and went on to become a paralegal.
I don’t think anyone uses shorthand anymore, but I always thought it was cool. Maybe they do ? 🤷
 
It’s so stupid. We gave our niece’s daughter a birthday card and wrote a note in it but she couldn’t read it. Her mother said she was going to teach it to her.

How are people going to read what their ancestors wrote if they ever find letters written by them?
 
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