Posted by oldtanker on March 09, 2016 at 06:22:57 from (64.118.3.19):
In Reply to: O/T Clocks Kids posted by J. Schwiebert on March 08, 2016 at 15:05:36:
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Yep gotta agree, pretty sad they taught me a dead method of communication that in turn taught me to accept lower standards and to hate. A method that no one uses any longer.
The school wasn't there to teach me life skills like patience or responsibility. That was my parents job and I think they did a pretty good job. They also taught me to accept the consequences of my actions. The school was there to educate me. When they wasted time and money teaching me a communication system seldom used in anything other that personal communications they were wrong. And just why did they teach it? Cause they had to learn it and it "didn't hurt them none".
I completely miss your point. Other than letters home while I was a young soldier I have never used cursive. And once I got enough rank on my collar that I could afford it I used the phone instead of writing. Today I email. I often through the years wondered about that. Why I had to learn cursive when it specified on various forms that had to be filled out to include job applications "PRINT". Reports and statements in the military were done at first on a typewriter and later on a computer. Nothing official was done in cursive. Legal documents like loan contracts were printed too. Every book I've read was printed too. Text books, operators and repair manuals, TM's and FM's in the Army too. Even the Bible was printed.
So just was the point? I remember a teacher telling me that it was so that I would develop the motor skills necessary to be a surgeon if I wanted to be one. Well that wasn't in my life goals then or now.
Cursive taught me to hate. I hated having to do it. I hated my sister for her fantastic handwriting that earned her praise while I was punished. I hated my teachers for making me do it. I learned to hate school because of it. I hated myself because I lacked artistic talent and the motor skills at 7 or 8 to write neatly. Heck when I enrolled in college all the forms had to be printed and my professors never would have accepted an assignment that wasn't double spaced and typed. So just why was I forced to learn cursive?
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