Cursive

[LostOne4Ever]

25. I want to say to teach both and keep cursive in schools

But not the horrid scribble that they teach in public schools. The Palmer method/D'Nealian script is horrid. It sacrifices the beauty of Spencerian script in the name of efficiency while at the same time making the letters in bizzare if not idiotic manner.




For instance, why the hell do they insist on making cursive lower case B's look like lower case L's? It is not that hard to make a loop and make a lower case B look like a b. And why the freaking hell did they make capital G's look like capital S's? The capital G bears no resemblance at all to its print counter part. And lowercase cursive r's dont look like print r's at all. And all the unecessary loops just make reading the script even worse.

If we are going to teach our kids cursive it should be something more like the Getty-Dubay script, where the cursive forms are based off the print forms and you can easily tell what letter is supposed to be what.



Having struggled with a crappy handwriting for years, I feel that had they taught a better script many of the issues I have had with my handwriting would not have materialized.