SCHOOLS TURN THEIR BACK ON CURSIVE WRITING

A stealthy move by schools across over 40 states is likely to damage the  neurology of generations of school kids: the abolition of cursive  writing. Cursive writing has been around for a very long time and,  despite the protestations of the establishment that most kids nowadays  text and type, this does not make cursive writing redundant. Instead of  learning to write cursively, however, school kids will from now on  mostly be learning to PRINT! What educators do not seem to appreciate is  that when children learn to write cursively, it literally helps them to  'join the dots' between different parts of the brain, creating  essential neurolinguistic pathways which help to keep the brain healthy.  Apparently, though, cursive writing is about as popular as learning to  spell - perhaps that will be the next item off the curriculum? Judging  from one teacher's blog - she says she taught grade school for 10 years -  this may be no joke. She writes - and I quote verbatim: "...at least  half of my students have horrible handwriting that takes me forever to  decifer". Yes, 'decifer'. Can you believe that? Clearly, the Department  of Dumbing Down is in full swing. Manifsetly, education is too important to  be left in the hands of educationalists.