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| Coca-Cola Cursive: collage, photo & digital. |
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Last week I gave Grandhunk #3 money (the preferred gift),
and a sweet letter for his 19th birthday.
He opened it when we were alone and I noticed
he stared at it along time. I had written in cursive.
He said it was hard to read.
I had heard people talk about the end of cursive,
but this was my first direct encounter with the results.
I remember third grade and working repeatedly to get
the Palmer method to come out of my pencil.
It felt like an adult task and I was happy to work at it.
"The new Common Core State Standards,
a set of national benchmarks for
American public schools,
do not require students to learn cursive. As a
result, states
and districts are grappling with whether to teach this
skill."
"The technology associated with this Computer Age has
required adults
and children alike to learn how to utilize various communication
devices, to the exclusion of cursive writing."
My Zack finally got through the page and smiled.
He said he was going to keep it in his wallet.
I read: "E-mail messages are routinely deleted.
Letters written in cursive are saved and cherished."
What do you think?
A smile for Saturday ...
