"There was no hollow promise that life would reward you."

[greygirlbeast]

So, yesterday was utter, unadulterated shit. Today has to be better, because I'm too tired for it to be worse. This morning I have a raging headache, and it's still, so far, a better day than was yesterday. At least there's intermittent sunlight out there, and it's a little warmer. Currently, in Providence, it's 79˚F, which a heat index of 82˚F.

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[mamaroximagines]

When I was a child, I spent hour upon hour practicing my cursive writing. I wanted it to look as elegant as the reprinted journal entries and correspondence of the 19th century writers I admired. It's an art form that makes you really think about what you're committing to paper.

[martianmooncrab]

they are still teaching cursive in Catholic School here...

Cursive?

[kiki60]

My significant other works as sub in public school systems. She can't get job locally, but the schools in the area whine they can't find qualified teachers, so they hire unqualified nincompoops. One day she had to point out where Soviet Union was on the world map, for one of these nincompoops. The next day she had to apologize in front of the class for embarrassing this nincompoop. This nincompoop had gone to one of those non accredited religious universities. So much for her double degree in Elementary education, specializing in reading, plus child psychology. Originally she got a degree in geology, minoring in mathematics. She loves the math, her first love, or something like that. For the most part she works with High-school students. Not that many subs are proficient at the number dance. Sometimes the absent teachers let her do what ever she wants when they are gone. She teaches them to read cursive. Writing takes practice, but the students can pick up reading cursive. I look at cursive as skill,like symbolic reasoning, and

[sovay]

I live in a world where children are no longer being taught cursive. Apparently, this has been going on for some time, but I was only recently made aware of it.

I was taught English cursive in elementary school. I don't use it to write myself-I have a kind of print with ligatures-but I can read it along with several other hands from different centuries. It is very weird to think of letters and cards from within my lifetime (that I received just the other week) being as inaccessible to future generations as seventeenth-century secretary hand, but it is unacceptably weird to think of those future generations being the children of my friends. I hope it does not die out that quickly. It's not irrelevant.

[numisma]

I live in a world where children are no longer being taught cursive.

I had not been aware of this. I know that my Polish instructor had commented last week on it becoming less and less common for Americans to write in cursive (this had sprung up in conversation because I was having difficulty reading certain letters in her cursive writing and I had been writing all my notes in print, which was just a personal preference), but I hadn't thought the reality would be to this extent. Both reading and writing in cursive are skills people will need.