That is my question for the who country or maybe the world.
I sit here trying to help my kids.
Learn something that seems to just like a forgotten language.
In the public school systems today or at least in about 41 of the public school systems today.
I never thought I would say that or that it was possible to feel like its been forgotten.
When cursive writing has been such a huge part of our history.
I loved learning cursive though I will admit my signature really needs work.
I loved feeling as if I was linked to those amazing people who were in our past.
George Washington
John Adams
Charles Carroll of Carrollton
Thomas Jefferson
and so many others.
I believe that there are some things that we should pass down to the next generation and some that simply shouldn't be passed down. Though so many harmful things get passed from one generation to the next.
I have spoken before about the effects that the No Child Left Behind program has caused out children. How it has pushed the things that those in charge do not care about to the side to make way for the future. To make sure that the change would be so slight that not many people would notice it.
That those who are hurt by it have no way out not way to deal with the matter at hand.
That program lead to what is now Common Core State Standards.
A standard that has taken away cursive writing and everything good about school.
The push us to turn our kids in robots and take away pieces of history that our children should be learning today.
I personally teach my children cursive writing and about why its so important for them to learn it even if " they dont need it ." I understand that now days everyone write text and emails. No one ever seems to write hand written letters anymore you dont even need to know how to sign your name ( again something that is done in CURSIVE WRITING! ) because soon there will be only electronic signatures done.
The history of Cursive writing stems back to the time before our country was even founded. To a time that people seem to forget made each and every one who we are today. The good bad and ugly parts of us that we might not love or be proud of but your personal past made you who you are. Just like history made us all who we all are today. It changed the world and even those who once couldnt afford to go to school, and learn to read and write dreamed of there children. One day having the free to learn to read and write. To one day be able to sign their own name on to a paper or contract or what ever it might be.
We are giving up so easily for the rights that those who came before us fought and died for. What is next? What rights that had been earned are going to be flushed down the drain because we feel its not useful to us anymore? Cause we feel like its not whats right for our children to learn or maybe just maybe because we dont pay enough. Attention to know what is really going on in the schools that some many of our children attend.
It breaks my heart that so many people are okay with stepping aside and allowing other people to take away some of the best parts of education. Striping it down to the bone so that they can build it back up to be what they want it to be.
Some people might be willing to stand aside and allow this to happen or ignore it as if that will make it go away. I and the large group of ladies I know around me am not willing to allow
anyone to take away Cursive writing. To remove it as if it never shaped this country.
Are you willing to sit aside and let it fade into the back ground?
