Most recent public comments by Ms. Nikkia Grant https://nowcomment.com/users/14548 https://nowcomment.com/documents/35110?scroll_to=345225 https://nowcomment.com/documents/35110?scroll_to=345225 As a future English teacher, penmanship is very important to me. Creative writing and poetry are expressive pieces that come alive from seeing a student's handwritten work. It is because penmanship is not stressed in lower grades (as I will be working with middle and/or high schoolers) that by secondary school teachers are just willing to accept typed work because they can not read the writing on the page in from of them. Crafts like calligraphy are becoming lost and unappreciated to younger generations due to lack of exposure. If this is taken out, what's next?!?! We're already breeding robots. Mon, 06 Jul 2015 02:12:13 -0400 https://nowcomment.com/documents/35110?scroll_to=345224 https://nowcomment.com/documents/35110?scroll_to=345224 You are absolutely correct, Laurel! If handwriting is not seen as essential in common core, it SHOULD be included in the art curriculum because penmanship, more specifically cursive is becoming a lost art form. There is actual beauty to cursive (though I may have a mild bias because I've been writing in cursive since first grade). Mon, 06 Jul 2015 02:03:50 -0400