What's Trending: Teaching Cursive In School

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Press show, this is what's trending So in Canada, Big
News this morning. In Canada, they decided a cursive needs
to be in school. Cursive does relegated in two thousand
and six to an optional piece of learning in elementary
schools in Ontario, Canada. Now they're saying it's a mandatory
part of the curriculum. The Education Minister says the research

(00:23):
has been very clear that cursive writing is a critical
life skill in helping young people to express better, to
think more critically, and ultimately to express more authentically. Really,
writing in cursive versus writing in I mean it's faster
to write in cursive that is in print. I couldn't
even try to write in cursive.

Speaker 2 (00:44):
Really, what like I got I got in trouble in
high school because I'd never used cursive. Like I just
used you know, like capital letter, smalls, I whatever, print,
regular print.

Speaker 1 (00:54):
It's just the letters like connected basically, yeah, practice, It
was a real adult when I started writing, and like
I felt like that made me grown. And when I
learned how to write in cursive, well, you know, I
felt like a real adult when I just said forget
it one day and I didn't write and cursive, and
I just wrote in print and nobody said anything, right.
I was like, yep, I'm fucking the system. I don't care.

(01:15):
I don't want to do this anymore because your print
is really nice, friend, beauful, but it takes forever. It
takes forever to write, so like I mean cursive. I
would agree you can write a lot faster, but my
print might look nice, but it's I don't know, it
takes twice as long, but I mean once and for
all eight five five nine, one o three five. This
is We're having a school board meeting right now. This
is a front show school board meeting. Honor in the court,

(01:37):
hit the gavel. Yes, they got to have a gabble there.
What do they really need to be teaching in school?
Oh my god, what do they really need to be tea?
I mean cursive? Fine, teach people cursive, that's fine. I mean,
I just I don't you can think more critically if
you write and cursified. I didn't know that, but I mean,

(01:58):
how about like, and to be serious for one second,
some form of financial literacy. Money man Number one should
be taxes, Like, here's how much money you have, and
here's how much you can spend always the same number
and tipping? Should about the should teach about tipping? Okay,
should we talk about tipping again because the conversation always

(02:22):
goes well today, Yeah, no, for real though, they should
teach I think in a way like negotiating or advocating
for yourself. I don't know if that's a class or there.
That's just something there, but I think that's a huge
one as an adult that a lot of people don't
know how to do. Unfortunately. I think my hot take yep,
write down in cursive on our list. Write it down
you want be able to read it if I do.

(02:43):
I mean, and I know some schools have this, but
like I know how silly this sounds, but some form
of taking care of yourself, like here's basic how to
do laundry, here's basic home mac. I guess it exists
in some form. We didn't have it. I didn't have
it either, But I mean I went to college. As
hard as my mom try it, I didn't know how
to do much of anything for myself. I mean, honest,
I had to sort of just figure it out by

(03:04):
ruining a lot of clothes, for example. I still sort
of figure it out by ruining it. Everything gets washed on. No.
Now I tank stuff up because every time I think
of you guys. Ye, now, every time I go to
put it all the drink, these guys at me. Hey Lindsey, Hi,

(03:24):
good morning, Hi Lindy. You think that they should be
teaching cursef Why?

Speaker 3 (03:29):
Absolutely? Because these kids do not know how to have
a signature for their name. They go to apply for
a job, they don't have the signature. They just print
their name.

Speaker 1 (03:37):
That's interesting, that's a's a good point.

Speaker 3 (03:41):
Yeah, it's really true.

Speaker 1 (03:43):
There's there are people on like TikTok on the internet
that will do a signature for you. They'll invent a
signature for you, and then they'll give you step by
step tip like big suggestions on how to replicate it yourself,
because people don't You're right, I guess they don't have one.

Speaker 3 (03:55):
You're right, Well, that's ridiculous.

Speaker 1 (03:58):
Yeah, I didn't think about that.

Speaker 3 (03:59):
Thank you.

Speaker 1 (04:00):
Do you have a good day? Yeah, Like, if you
don't like your signature, you can go and they'll don't
invent one for you and then like show you how
to do it so you can have like a fancy
looking signature.

Speaker 2 (04:09):
I was one of those kids that just kept doing
new signatures, you know what I'm saying, Like I would
practice my signature different styles.

Speaker 1 (04:17):
I was signing autograph the NBA. Yeah, on the back
of my right back of all my assignments, not books,
it would be you know, Christopher Frederick number fifty five,
Like someday I was going to sign that for somebody.

Speaker 2 (04:28):
Oh yeah, yeah, my initials everything, even even the initials.

Speaker 1 (04:32):
Oh. I changed my name. So like at some point
in grade school, I wanted a hyphenated last name. Oh
my god, I say, wait wait, wait, wait wait wait
yeah Jason Spears Brown. What what what's the hyphen You're
my mom's maiden name. So I would like sign my
be Jason Pluta Brown with a hyphen. I thought I was.
I did that like all the third grade. I thought

(04:53):
it was cool. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I tried out a
new nickname one day and everyone's like, no one calls
you that. You know, it wasn't my detail, Like that's
not your name. You just you just decided that, yeah,
like oh this is my name, not well why not?
Hey Linda, yes highlanda good morning. What what do we

(05:15):
need to be teaching in school? They're saying, guy, I
guess all the Canadian kids now are gonna learn cursive,
But well, what do we need to know for real,
for real life skills?

Speaker 3 (05:25):
How to pay your bill, how to do things for
yourself so that they're not just expecting mom and dad
to take over everything in their life.

Speaker 1 (05:33):
I like it, Yeah, right, bill paying. I agree with taxes, yes,
I mean I don't think people understand the concept. I don't.
I don't know that I could do a very good
job following my taxes. I mean, I'm sure I could
do odd job at it, but I'm not sure if
it would be you know, with all the deductions I'm
supposed to have, and god knows what else I don't.
I don't know. I got it. I got a guy.

Speaker 3 (05:52):
A lot of people because I do taxes, A lot
of people will come in and they have no clue,
or they'll sit there and say, oh, well, I'm sure
I should get more money because my friend got more money. Everybody.

Speaker 1 (06:07):
Oh, it's like that scene Linda from a Ship's Creek
where it's a write off. Yeah, like, what's a rite off?
It's like this lamp, it's a write off. Who pays
for the write off? I don't know somebody, Thank you, Linda,
have a good day.

Speaker 3 (06:21):
Thank you.

Speaker 1 (06:22):
I love you too. I mean, I realize we don't
use checks and check books anymore unless you show a
bit Shelley, But like, uh, teaching kids how to balance
like an imaginary check book, I mean, it's the same
theory with you know, anything else. It's the same idea
even if you're not physically writing checks.

Speaker 2 (06:36):
Or to understand, like when you swipe your credit card
like whatever, Like, yes, it's going to show that it's deducting.

Speaker 1 (06:43):
It a might not showing the balance yet, but it's gone. Money.
Teaches are all text. Teach real life scenarios, role play situations,
and critical thinking, out of the box solutions. Sure. Yeah,
teach cursive so the kids can sign their name. Yeah,
I guess so. Someone was saying here. None of my
daughters even know how to write in cursive. Along with

(07:04):
the new math, I can't even do this. Yeah, that
common throws everybody off. Teaching cursive in school isn't just
about writing faster. It's about being able to read documents
written in cursive as well. When you reading the Constitution document,
yes over here, coping mechanisms, Yes, they should be teaching

(07:28):
coping mechanisms, Yes, yes, and yes that would have helped
a lot. Yeah, I agree, coping mechanisms work ethic. How
to work tipping? Write stop it, stop it,