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My detailed and handwritten response is in the mail.
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I'll run it through the OCR software for the masses here...
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True, but the point I was making is that I can basically do this right now with my computers. Only disadvantage is the battery life is around 5 to 6 hours though.
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My kids have had 8 years in a place that's made news for defunding education and see for a lot of people I know. All of our oldest kids are getting their first college acceptance letters, and they've passed the state-wide exams for AP course college credit. That being competitive is most important to me. A lot of cuts have happened but the kids are in a high school with testing results that make it look like an elite place. You can always learn things later. I graduated from high school in a smaller town with poor facilities and less classes than other schools in the area but they concentrated on their record of how many kids got in to the state's flagship university. That was the right thing to do. I was able to have that entry ticket and I got more polished later on because of that ticket. Maybe I'll reconsider if the people crying about this start threads to bring back the shorthand classes or have the shop classes cover split rims.
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A Cursive Question
The question being, why isn’t it taught in school anymore? I’m taking the time and effort to teach my grandkids cursive writing simply because they don’t teach it in their public school. Maybe someone here in the field of education can enlighten me as to why cursive writing has gone the way of the buggy whip. Maybe I’m just too “old school,” but I just can’t imagine going through life without the ability to write in cursive. I realize we all live in the keyboard age now, but I’m not willing to let cursive vanish without a fight, at least when it comes to my grandkids.
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Here's a Quora thread that discusses it as well: https://www.quora.com/Why-don-t-most...chool-any-more |
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While doing research on the origin of my house , I found myself in the basement of the County Courthouse reading handwritten script from the 1700's .
It took some time , but I eventually became fairly good a reading and understanding what I was reading . After all , most of what I was reading was King's English , not the dialect that we use here today . I could not have ever imagined myself doing this beforehand , but I adapted . My guess is that cursive will not perish completely , but it will likely end up a basement of the County Courthouse thing . |
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I read that Quora thread. Nothing terribly surprising...except for the fact that the comment that mentioned their mortgage was all done digitally..and their signature was entered in the box with a pseudo-cursive font. What? So we do not use REAL signatures, but we use FAKE signatures? Maybe (tongue in cheek), whenever we buy computers, laptops, phones, in the future some algorithm will offer us a unique "pseudo-cursive" font. Our own personal signature font.
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We gave our kids their first debit cards today, and they signed them without cursive though they know it. They tried both ways and both liked their block letter signatures better. I guess I’m generally ok with change and try and not sweat the things that aren’t a huge deal. I’d much rather have them learn useful skills like coding, which IMO should be as common as learning another language. But great if folks think it’s important, more learning as always good. Last edited by Dirk Hofman; 11-20-2018 at 12:09 PM. Reason: spelling |
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We're in a world where a key that's 256 bits of characters is what is more important than ink from a pen. One of the Freakonomics or Planet Money podcasts had an episode on what your hand's signature means these days.
An electronic signature is mostly about fulfilling statutory requirements. There are good articles that explain what a signing service or part of a web site or app does. When I handle someone else's device I often get a reminder that the swiping gesture of Swiftkey keyboard is the modern fast and formal handwriting. Our paper is becoming glass. The 3 new or current iPhones and new top tier Android phones tell that story.
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I think I was misunderstood. I get the idea of digital "signature" (which of course are not signatures at all); I was just amused at the idea of a cursive looking font. What the heck is the point of that?
The two DIFFERENT people who "signed" the form had the same looking "writing". It just seemed silly to me. If the OK button to accept a digital identification is good enough, why bother to make a fake AND IDENTICAL "writing".
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