Interesting fact; Dogs don't care what day it is.
Have you ever looked into your dog's eyes and seen a care in the world in them?
Probably not. Dogs don't have a care in the world. So, neither do the truely careless unemployed.
I am not one of those. I have too many cares. Or, as my mother use to say; I care too much.
So, what is it I care about today? As you say to yourself, "What do I care what that Lady cares about? I have no room to care for what she cares about. " But being you are human, you will read on to see. *wink* gotcha!
Today, I care about the elimination of cursive handwritting in the school system. That is a big thing. If the younger generation can not read cursive writting, then how are they to read the signatures of the Declaration of Independence or the love poems that their grandfather wrote to their grandmother or the shopping list their mother gives them. There will be alot of loss without cursive writting being taught in our school systems.
What do you think? I know my Dog does not give a hoot.
More to come ..... Dog Days to you.
Cursive is a dying art that no one uses anymore except for signatures. If anything it will be something that is either self taught or it is going to turn into something that is taught by your parents. Its something kids these days don't need to learn. An example would be like "why do you write like that on your check dad?" And then the sequence of events occurs that makes teach your kids what cursive is.
ReplyDeleteAs a teacher trying to read much of the chicken scratch that kids turn in, I cannot for the life of me understand why we would do away with cursive writing. Penmanship is just another one of the arts that the schools seem to think is unimportant in the education of a child and as such have cut funding for. What's sadder still is that in many school districts, it is not just the arts getting the budget cuts. Even the sciences are taking hits now, as evidenced in a recent visit to my friends classroom, one where I did my student teaching. While I was there he was preparing for a Biology lab during his next period. However instead of setting out dissection trays and scalpels, he was placing packets of coloring sheets with instructions to identify and color in certain organs and body parts. He told me that the budget cuts were such that he now only conducted 1-2 true dissection labs compared to at least 5-6 in the past. I do not see the athletic departments getting these kinds of budget cuts.
ReplyDeleteBack to penmanship and cursive writing, I believe that we should return to teaching Calligraphy in schools. Perhaps than the average printing would be legible.
Practicing cursive in school now is a waste of time and money. Writing in chicken scratch is really the writers fault. If they are lazy enough to barely make their writing eligible than so be it, they will eventually have to learn to write neatly or they will just type and print everything up. And you dont need to dissect something to learn about it. Coloring may sound childish and stupid but it will actually teach you more than dissecting something and than just going down a checklist saying what organ it is. It also saves on class time because it can be assigned as homework. Athletic departments dont get cuts usually because they are funded by the players and the people they know. They also bring in a crowd that usually has to pay to see their games.
ReplyDeleteSo overall... you dont need cursive because its out of date. Schools are getting cuts because their are certain practices in schools that are unnecessary. Now dont get me wrong some cuts are just stupid but that example of science was not a bad cut.