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Originally Posted by razark
The local school seems to wobble back and forth on continuing to teach it. My fourth grader is in full-on complaint mode regarding learning cursive. I told him if I had to put up with learning it, so did he. Truth is, I can't even remember the last time I used cursive. I don't know if I've done it since high school, and I doubt I could do it now.
Said fourth grader was doing his math homework last week with a slide rule.
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Learning cursive these days is 'old school' to say the least with the overload of texting gear we strap on the kids now. One way around it is to encourage calligraphy as an art form in schools that still have art programs. I personally still maintain good pens, inkwells, and stationery to indulge in the past art of personal correspondence and my wife calligaphied our wedding invitations by hand some 33 yars ago (and the thank you notes as well). The great samurai duelist of the Five Rings, Miyamoto Musashi was a noted calligrapher. If a samurai can do it, a Kaleun can do it better, und in Gothic script! Since most kids do have a sense of style tied to 'personal cool', I think it would work if promoted that way. My Cross pen set from graduation is still a prize possession and my wife loves her Mountblanc pen. As for MY signature: they don't call it a John Handcock for nuthin' ie still the benchmark for over two hundred years and still hard to outdo without style, penmanship and a real good goosequill! When you sign something it means you stand behind it, even if its just your tax return, so it ought to look like something unique to the writer... but maybe that's 'old school' too...alas. Good thread Armistead!
