There was nothing worse than getting a paper back from the teacher with a lot of red marks on it. The red ink was usually there to point out our mistakes and to reprimand us for something that we did wrong.
When seven-year-old Alyssa came home with red pen comments on her page, the mother was furious. The teacher was upset because Alyssa had written her name in cursive. Apparently, this is an issue.
Alyssa’s name was quite legible but for some reason, the teacher preferred that students not write in cursive. Some people even consider cursive to be a lost art and fewer people are learning how to do it. You can read more about what happened in the classroom below:
Here’s the note 7-year-old Alyssa received for her choice of handwriting on a piece of schoolwork. It reads:
“Stop writing your name in cursive. You have had several warnings.”
I don’t know about you, but that handwriting looks suspiciously connected to me.
Alyssa apparently learned cursive at home from her mother.
Despite this teacher’s warning, cursive has been taught for generations in schools all over the world, usually to children around Alyssa’s age.
In fact, cursive is many times the mandatory writing style for assignments.
Most of us can remember practicing penmanship on ruled paper, like this handwriting exercise. Languages that use other alphabets, like Russian, Arabic, and Chinese, also have cursive styles.
And while some say it’s a dying art thanks to keyboards, there are plenty of people who still practice it, and like the Reddit user above, turn it into a true work of art.
And despite living in a digital age, being able to read and write cursive is still very much a practical, everyday skill.
And as for writing it, it’s necessary when it comes to signing documents.
Everything from a simple credit card receipt to a legal document like a house deed requires a signature – in cursive.
Kids who learn cursive and write in it regularly have also shown increased brain activity and creativity, and that they could more easily learn new vocabulary words when they wrote them out by hand rather than typed them.
Just ask William Shakespeare, who wrote his plays in cursive.
In today’s world, knowing how to type is a must, but it seems that knowing your way around cursive is still a skill that many find useful, as well as beautiful.
We may never know the teacher’s reasoning for reprimanding Alyssa for her signature, but it seems that the internet is siding with Alyssa on this one.
Via: Little Things
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