10.11.06
How’s your penmanship?
There’s an interesting article in the Washington Post this morning about cursive writing and how it’s going by the wayside. With so many other things to teach, and the prevalence of word processing for hard-copy writing, penmanship doesn’t seem to have a high priority. On the last SAT test, only 15% of the students wrote their essays in cursive. The rest printed–block letters.
I’m instinctually inclined to say that this is just this week’s sign of the coming apocalypse, but I can’t really bring myself to care that much. While I agree penmanship is a virtue, is it more important than math? 
Of course, I’m one to talk. My chicken-scratch is so horrible that my notes have a half-life. After a year I can’t read it anymore.
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