I promise this will be my last post about cursive writing. I learned two interesting things today. First, legal signatures are not required to be in cursive. Second, a recent study has shown that "Cursive writing enhances cognative development." I believe this. It's long been acknowledged that music and the visual arts help develop brain power in young children (so, of course they are the first subjects cut from school butgets when things get tight). Woops, I'd better stay off that soap box. I can imagine practicing cursive writing having some of the same positive effects so of course it has been cut from school programs because there's just not enough time to fit it in. I remember really enjoying writing pages of Cs because a row of lower case Cs written in cursive looks like waves on an ocean. Of course, I tended to get side tracked and draw little boats on my C ocean, and mermaids and jumping fish. My teacher, artist though he was, really didn't appreciate that. Go figure.
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