besides Thursday.
It’s National Handwriting Day
As a
product of the 1950’s, I was taught Palmer Method handwriting. Today most schools are abandoning the
teaching of cursive all together. It’s
just another way of dumbing down the populace.
It’s been
years since I taught religious ed at my church, but I still remember the shock
at the inability of the 7th through 12th graders to write
cursive and forget about even being able to write a complete sentence. Punctuation?
Forget it. These modern day
geniuses couldn’t even print very well.
Sadly,
since I type so much, my handwriting is not as good as it once was (but still
pretty dang nice.)
Palmer Method Example:
My handwriting from my appointment/planning book of several years ago:
