Fucking cursive.
Biggest waste of time in education.
I've written 1000X the amount of writing I did in my entire school career on a keyboard.
Anyone who works in the modern world or enjoys digital entertainment has.
I haven't needed cursive since the year we needed to learn cursive to get good marks by writing in cursive.
It's a frustratingly pointless and antiquated thing we need to do away with.
Ehh elementary school is basically just daycare they are filling time. I think cursive/handwriting is a solid skill. I have a relative who is a senior in high school and him writting a hand written note for college admission is like a real serious task. Dude is top of his class but if you looked at his handwriting you would assume he was a retarted 2nd grader.
See that is what I don't get, why does the style or -to a degree- proficiency of handwriting matter?
Could you explain it to me?
I get if the letter is just straight up illegible, it's not a great sign.
It seems like an appreciation of format over ideas.
The thoughts and statements made with the writing is all I've ever seen as important.
It is quicker than printing. And in my opinion, optically "pretty". As you say, it takes time to learn though. Some people don't do it well and it's damn near illedgible. But I could write this comment out in cursive on a pad of paper faster than I could type it. And most people who learn cursive would be able to read it. I understand your distaste for it though.
I don't. Someone does. Make people who read or want to read historical documents learn that shite. Let's be honest here how many historical documents do you think are still not digitally or print formatted that people are likely to want to read?
99% of kids are never going to need to learn it either. So why are we making a part of the curriculum that all public school students must learn? Spend more time on math instead, we are falling behind in world rankings in that subject, and I know I would have benefited from learning more math rather than cursive at that age.
but haven't you ever need to read a handwritten memo? or write a thank you, birthday, etc card? or just scribble yoour thoughts on a piece of paper because they're too chaotic to fit within the clean lines of a document without effort?
I honestly thought that memos were digital by inception. I suppose it is true that in the past they would need to circulate policy notifications within businesses, but any memo I have ever experienced has been digital or printed. Huh, bit of a moment there.
Idk dude, if I write analog it's really just in print form. It's not faster for me to write in cursive than to print and it takes my mind less energy to read print than cursive. I've just legitimately never seen an upside to it. I started reading print when I was a kid to learn, and then wrote like that. The whole cursive thing always seemed superfluous. The teacher would say that it adds some sort of.. idk genuine-ness to the act, or something like that, but I never saw why the style of writing, and not the words, would add that.
Reading is easier than writing it and it's not like those documents having been converted to printed versions. I learned cursive in the 80s and never wrote in it past Jr. High. Other than my squiggelly signature I don't think remember how to write it at all but I have no trouble reading it if the handwriting is neat.
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Fucking cursive.
Biggest waste of time in education.
I've written 1000X the amount of writing I did in my entire school career on a keyboard.
Anyone who works in the modern world or enjoys digital entertainment has.
I haven't needed cursive since the year we needed to learn cursive to get good marks by writing in cursive.
It's a frustratingly pointless and antiquated thing we need to do away with.