Rosetta Stone....

[mdehners]

This week my mother gave me the family Deviled Egg recipe. She said she didn't need it anymore, since she'd been making it for over 7 decades;>! As I looked at it, a discussion at a family dinner was remembered. My brother and his wife were so glad that many school distrincts are dropping Cursive. Sounds great since few folks use it, right? The problem is that when you learn to write, you learn to READ. That means all those not taught Cursive will have difficulty at best Reading the writings of their older siblings, let alone parents, grandparents and so on.
Perhaps every library will have a Rosetta Stone so that this and future generations will be able to Read what their family members wrote. That is, if they hadn't taken all that paper down to Recycling...
Truth,
Pat

Comments

[heethen_crone]

Um ... no cursive? People don't use it? I'm confused.

[mdehners]

There's been a number of newstories in the last month about school districts dropping the teaching of Cursive handwriting from their curricullums. While I understand that a lot of folks don't use it for anything more than their signature(like me;>), my worry is that if you can't write Cursive you're obviously not going to be able to READ it. That means the majority of handwtritten manuscripts in the last century or so might as well be in Greek...
Cheers,
Pat