By Anonymous - 22/03/2012 05:13 - United States - Federal Way

Today, I had to re-grade a student's assignments because neither he, nor his parents can read "Spanish." I'd written in cursive. FML
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Today, I got back the essay I wrote about how my country's education system is fucked. At one point, I made a spelling mistake. My teacher wrote a note about it, basically calling me illiterate, and telling me to pay attention in school instead of whining about it. She misspelled "school". FML
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Tdevonner 0

Haha apparently you write with a heavy accent lol

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mughni 10

You must have a horrible writing, y not try to improve it

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YdoIhaveAchode 4

WHY don't you try to improve your spelling?

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rubberduckie94 13

My kids were barely taught cursive. I think they know about enough to read the word spanish, but it is becoming a thing of the past. I guess chuck it up to the world we live in today. Depending on the students age maybe they are excused maybe not, but there is no excuse for the parents. FYL and Ydi to the parents and fhl to the student for having morons for parents.

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bienlunee 6

CHALK IT UP. Chuck it up...wtf do you even think that means? Morons

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mom2pen 4

Translating cursive, I had no idea that I too am bilingual. Yes, I speak manuscript and cursive.

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ohJeeznotme 7

Your handwriting must be awful because cursive isn't hard to read. I had teachers that wrote so poorly that the writing style made no difference. Work on your penmanship!

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vintagemeow 6

Aaw man, that sounds like a spain in the arse..

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GoldenGrizzly 7

My advice, Op, is that you should print from now on. Kids are not taught cursive these days. I had a teacher who insisted upon writing in cursive but had shite handwriting so it was pretty much squiggles. She got upset when we asked if she could print. But as a teacher you should adapt to your students. If they cannot read cursive then it does them no good. I am sorry to say that you should probably print from now on.

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MissHayleyJames 7

So we should just continue dumbing down society even more? Awesome idea.

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my_two_cents 3

How is not using cursive "dumbing down society"? It's not like they're asking for text speak, just the same words, printed. The ability to read a teachers comments is actually pretty handy. Just sayin'.

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sadistmonkey 19

Knowing how to read cursive is a handy skill, but if your handwriting is illegible in cursive, then printing is probably a better option. It's not about dumbing down society. It's about effective communication. This goes both for having the ability to read decent cursive handwriting but also writing legibly. If it takes not using cursive to do so, then that's what it takes.

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RedPillSucks 31

Cursive is going the way of calligraphy. No one (few people) do that nowadays.

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MissHayleyJames 7

I agree that if the cursive is illegible itself she should print instead, but it's implied by the FML that it's not her handwriting, but the fact that it's cursive that those idiots can't read. We had to write in cursive in school and nowadays kids don't have to. Kids should still have to learn it. There's no reason not to.

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sadistmonkey 19

"It's implied by the FML." Think about who is making that implication. It's the OP, and without any further information, I have to assume that the OP has a bias in favor of him/herself. Which means, the OP's version of the story where she wrote in normally legible cursive handwriting and the student and parents couldn't read MAY be correct, but we don't know that. Or at least, I'm not willing to make that jump.

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Blooblibloo 4

I forgot many countries don't use cursive, everybody write with cursive in mine so it's strange to hear some people can't read it. I don't know if not teaching cursive makes people dumber, but it be really annoying for me to write in non cursive, it seems slower and less practical. Also cursive is more elegant I think, capital letters looks like kid writing to me. Anyway.

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ap7diamonds 1

I don't want to live on this planet anymore.

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Sir_drink_alot 20

I'm sorry but why would you bother writing in cursive? No one writes in cursive anymore, or writes full stop, why waste the paper and ink?

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sarge3000 1

They don't teach cursive in school anymore

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thewife5 19

My kid is a 4th grader and he has 'cursive homework' every week. However, most schools have taking it out of their curriculum.

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