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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Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, in the class I'm teaching, I assigned my students an essay to complete for homework. One student asked me if I was deducting points for bad spelling. I teach English. FML
Today, while grading my kindergarteners' spelling tests, one kid spelled all the words wrong, including his name. FML
Today, I'm grading final projects for a junior level college class. A student finally turned in their work, after months of encouragement and coaxing. Half of it was plain wrong, the rest had so many spelling and grammatical mistakes, it appeared to be written by a drunk autocorrect program. FML
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
Today, I had to make a poster for social studies. I decided to write "Nice ass" in hieroglyphics. Turns out my teacher can read hieroglyphics. FML
Today, I was teaching a class when a student pointed out that I'd used the wrong "your/you're" while writing on the board. FML
Today, I’m a middle-school teacher. Handing back graded essays, only to realize halfway through that I’d left my personal notes visible on the projector. One said, “Great kid, but talks like a podcast on 1.5x speed.” The student read it out loud before I could close the tab. FML
Today, I realized I am one of those people who has trouble reading their own handwriting. It looks like someone trying to write in cursive when they don't even have the slightest idea what cursive writing even is. I do know what it is. I'm just very, very rusty. FML
Today, my ten-year-old sister had to write out my job application because no one can read my terrible handwriting. FML
Today, the feedback my teacher wrote on my English assignment was so horrible that it took me half an hour and help from both my parents to decipher it. It turned out to be a scathing criticism of my "poor communication skills". I hate my teachers. FML
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tpike1296 11
Idiots should never reproduce -_-
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
YdoIhaveAchode 4
WHY don't you try to improve your spelling?
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.
bienlunee 6
CHALK IT UP. Chuck it up...wtf do you even think that means? Morons
mom2pen 4
Translating cursive, I had no idea that I too am bilingual. Yes, I speak manuscript and cursive.
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!
vintagemeow 6
Aaw man, that sounds like a spain in the arse..
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.
MissHayleyJames 7
So we should just continue dumbing down society even more? Awesome idea.
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'.
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.
RedPillSucks 33
Cursive is going the way of calligraphy. No one (few people) do that nowadays.
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.
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.
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.
ap7diamonds 1
I don't want to live on this planet anymore.
j_cat187 20
Inb4lock
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?
sarge3000 1
They don't teach cursive in school anymore
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.