Posted on Jul 2, 2015
Should schools write off penmanship classes?
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When was the last time you received a handwritten letter? Not too often, I am guessing. Is it time for schools to do away with handwriting classes and penmanship classes? Or should we keep them in case we need to communicate in a hard copy format when we have no access to electronics? What are your thoughts? Also, see survey...
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It saddens me when I see things like this in the news and media. We are losing the basic education; math, penmanship, grammar, vocabulary, etc. I see things like, "but we have all that information on our mini-computer in our smartphones". Yes, but what about our super-computer?? The brain?
I don't want to start a tangent topic but when I see official emails that contain "gonna" and "wanna" from senior members, I *want to* weep a little.
I don't want to start a tangent topic but when I see official emails that contain "gonna" and "wanna" from senior members, I *want to* weep a little.
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SCPO David Lockwood
We are turning our kids into mindless robots. The dumbing of America and the sad thing is that we as parents are allowing this to happen. Who do we blame the schools or us?
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LTC (Join to see)
Disagree with your overall argument, but agree that we (the military, if not the country) need to be able to speak and communicate effectively and correctly.
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Col Edward Holland
You will soon see text abbreviations in those official emails. We already see them in writing assignments in our public schools.
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Penmanship classes (or something accomplishing the same/similar task) absolutely still need to exist...for the same reason kids still need to learn multiplication tables before they meet the calculator and the same reason Privates and Lieutenants need to learn to read a map before you hand them a GPS. What if the computer crashes...or the zombies come....or they're REALLY in love.
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On the contrary, pepople still need to have good handwriting skills. We cannot rely soley on computers. And of course others need to be able to read what you have written.
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