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Burn The Pens

By The Daily Dish
Mar 25 2008, 9:23 AM ET

This seems extreme:

Let's stop brutalizing our kids with years of drills on the proper formation of a cursive capital "S"handwriting is a historical blip in the long history of writing technologies, and it's time to consign to the trash heap this artificial way of making letters, along with clay tablets, smoke signals, and other arcane technologies.

And in fact, new research is showing is usefulness.



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