{"id":583418,"date":"2010-05-27T14:54:12","date_gmt":"2010-05-27T18:54:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\/html\/northwestvoices\/2011968012_cursivewriting.html?syndication=rss"},"modified":"2010-05-27T14:54:12","modified_gmt":"2010-05-27T18:54:12","slug":"cursive-writing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/583418","title":{"rendered":"Cursive writing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>If legibility is the issue, why not practice better printing?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This is a response to \u201cTeacher reintroduces the lost art of cursive\u201d [page one, May 24].<\/p>\n<p>Making the case for relearning cursive is not an easy one. I, for one, am just finishing up my junior year of high school, having taken both Advanced Placement (AP) Chemistry and AP U.S. Government tests, and then the SAT.<\/p>\n<p>Little did I know that I would have to be writing a three-sentence statement in cursive. Now having learned cursive back in the third grade, I had to dig back through my brain to remember some of the more archaic characters, but in the end I got it done. This application of cursive however, is the first time that I have used this skill since I first learned it.<\/p>\n<p>Now what teacher Nora MacDonald seems to stress is that the cursive is a remedy for her kids writing in block print, and doing so almost illegibly. There are, however, simpler ways to fix such a problem.<\/p>\n<p>Instead of trying to resurrect an outmoded form of communication \u2014which, it should be noted, is also what is being taught in her class \u2014she could simply have them practice better printing so that she can read their writing. Perhaps she could even stress that the ability to print legibly allows the AP graders to read their work as well.<\/p>\n<p>If we should all start relearning how to write in outmoded forms of communication, I may as well take both AP Cuneiform and AP Egyptian Hieroglyphics during my senior year, as neither Latin nor cursive are really defined as \u201coutmoded\u201d yet.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps next year, instead of having her students learn cursive, MacDonald could be pursuing Latin, a topic relevant to that other outmoded form of communication.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2014 Brad Russell, Bainbridge Island<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If legibility is the issue, why not practice better printing? This is a response to \u201cTeacher reintroduces the lost art of cursive\u201d [page one, May 24]. Making the case for relearning cursive is not an easy one. I, for one, am just finishing up my junior year of high school, having taken both Advanced Placement [&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-583418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583418","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=583418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583418\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=583418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=583418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=583418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}