6.08.2006
Careless Cursive Curses Kids
When I was a kid, they used to make us write the same letters in these three stupid little lines over and over and over. When we were finally deemed proficient by our harsh schoolmistress, she would give us our first ever pen, and OH it was sweet. We had officially mastered penmanship, what the little whippersnappers nowadays would call penpersonship. Acually, according to this Guardian article, they aren't calling it much of anything. I feel so vindicated when I read the line, "Children who are not taught to write properly at primary level will struggle at secondary school and university and are also likely to find their poor handwriting as much a handicap in the jobs market as poor reading and numeracy, according to a report out today." Then again, I don't have a job.
