{"id":576893,"date":"2010-05-24T18:32:39","date_gmt":"2010-05-24T22:32:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\/html\/northwestvoices\/2011944503_roosevelthighschoolstudentsgetrefresheroncursivewriting.html?syndication=rss"},"modified":"2010-05-24T18:32:39","modified_gmt":"2010-05-24T22:32:39","slug":"roosevelt-high-school-students-get-refresher-on-cursive-writing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/576893","title":{"rendered":"Roosevelt High School students get refresher on cursive writing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Cursive a craft and skill we can\u2019t lose<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Editor, The Times:<\/p>\n<p>It is astonishing and sad to read that today\u2019s students find cursive writing \u201ctoo slow\u201d [\u201cTeacher reintroduces the lost art of cursive,\u201d page one, May 24].<\/p>\n<p>As a child of the 1950s, my cursive is not nearly as elegant as that of my elders who were schooled early in the 20th century. But it certainly is far faster and far easier on my hand than block printing.<\/p>\n<p>My son, now out of high school, can barely write cursive, having had a third-grade teacher who had \u201cmore important\u201d things to do than teach handwriting. There are some things that should always be taught, no matter how good technology gets. Doing arithmetic without a calculator and cursive writing are among them.<\/p>\n<p>We should all know how to do these things.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2014 Linda Atkins, Enumclaw<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cursive a craft and skill we can\u2019t lose Editor, The Times: It is astonishing and sad to read that today\u2019s students find cursive writing \u201ctoo slow\u201d [\u201cTeacher reintroduces the lost art of cursive,\u201d page one, May 24]. As a child of the 1950s, my cursive is not nearly as elegant as that of my elders [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2861,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-576893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2861"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=576893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576893\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=576893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=576893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=576893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}