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Originally Posted by DuncanWatson
Printing is more readable
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Bad writing is not readable. Good writing is easily readable. If someone's handwriting is bad in cursive, it's because for some reason they started with print and never adapted to cursive properly.. in short they have bad handwriting.
I never really understood this. Cursive is just as easy to learn as print. Of course if kids are taught to write in print, then forced to cancel all that muscle memory and relearn to write all the letters in cursive they'll find the task pointless, arbitrary and difficult in the sense that it is difficult to learn any arbitrary, and seemingly pointless process. If the first time kids pick up a pen to write they are taught to write in cursive, as I was, they won't find it difficult. They'll have better, faster writing and they might pick up increase their patience and discipline - skill that will help them pick up maths, and later science.
In a sense though I don't think it's a big deal because I gave up on public education a long time ago. To my mind, these days any child whose parent has left the job of education totally to the school has a far smaller chance of being successful academically.