The term “cursive” is not the name of a specific script. What was taught as cursive in schools was a very bad script loopy called D’Nealian.
What I mean by “proper handwriting” is teaching children letterforms that are natural to the human hand—slanted ovals and linking strokes. It doesn’t necessarily matter what the eventual letterform is, but you start with a basic Italic script and let each individual go from there — what in Britain is called “joined-up writing.”
Only since 1978, according to your link. Before that it was the Palmer method, which is what I was taught (and which, to my untrained eyes, looks indistinguishable from D’Nealian.
Seriously, “D’Nealian”? It’s a made-up name with an absurd apostrophe in it, and it looks like the name of an alien culture from the Star Trek universe.
“Captain, the D’Nealians are ignoring our hailing messages and are moving to attack!”
“Activate the Palmer torpedos”
“Joined-up” is just the British term for cursive. It doesn’t refer to a specific script either. British schools teach the same sort of rigid penmanship styles US schools did, or at least they used to. At primary school I was taught Marion Richardson (unlooped linked script) and later, round cursive.
Heh. I remember that style. I used to doodle by turning the D’Nealian uppercase ‘S’ into a duck.
Back on topic …
Police Chief Mark Kessler Predicts Next American Revolution If ‘Libtards,’ Feds Try To Silence Him
What a lovely guy.
What color dragon does he ride? 
I get what he’s saying. We should let kids starve to death…
Exactly. Human beings don’t deserve food unless they TOIL for it, dammit.
Fucking Oliver Twist, with his fucking “Please, sir, may I have some more?”
Well, duh - how is Little Cletus supposed to work with those pesky child labor laws…
Talk about decreasing the surplus population …
A senator who’s in favor of arming teachers kinda shot a teacher.
It was a rubber bullet, so it’s ok to point and laugh.
No sweat, everybody knows how much Republican love teachers. Not a prob.
The true story is a bit different than one might think from the Blurb included in the link bup put out, although it actually better illustrates why arming teachers is a stupid idea
It wasn’t a “gun went off” type accident, instead he was involved in a simulation of a school shooting in which some of the actors were playing armed teachers and some were playing shooters, and he mistook one for the other.
http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2013/08/jeremy_hutchinson_arkansas_shooting.php
(The story does not say whether Sheriff Jones is D or R – but we all know which party this kind of thing plays to.)
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The true story is a bit different than one might think from the Blurb included in the link bup put out, although it actually better illustrates why arming teachers is a stupid idea
It wasn’t a “gun went off” type accident, instead he was involved in a simulation of a school shooting in which some of the actors were playing armed teachers and some were playing shooters, and he mistook one for the other.
http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmem…s_shooting.php
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That didn’t help.
That’s a disturbingly Holocaust-y mental image …
Arkansas State Senator Jason Rapert says: “There’s only one vote that matters and that’s when I stand before the Lord”.
and
He went on to remark that the men and women who protested Texas’ sweeping new abortion restrictions at the state Capitol are basically demons from hell. “I’ve never had a glimpse of Hell or heard a real demon,” he said, “but I believe that must be what they sound like. It’s spiritual warfare.”
Of course R.
A quick Google count on the literal string “stacked like cordwood” shows ~190,000 hits. The phrase “bodies stacked like cordwood”, on the other hand, returns 99,000 hits. 52%. While not a scientific survey, it does rather suggest that over half of all online references to stacking things like cordwood are talking about corpses.
I seriously doubt that even the idiot sheriff in question was unaware of that connotation, so I must presume that he wanted that particular image.
No one was in doubt, but for the record:
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Knox County Sheriff Jimmy ‘J.J.’ Jones and County Clerk Foster Arnett Jr. were all smiles during the Republican election party at the Crowne Plaza Tuesday, May 4, 2010…
Jones, 51, received 72 percent of the vote, according to unofficial returns, in the GOP primary race. And without a Democratic challenger to face in the August general election, Jones’ Tuesday night win cemented his re-election.
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October 9, 2007 in Knox County GOP
Last evening, the West Knox Republican Club meet with a typical standing room only crowd at the Cooper Cellar located on Kingston Pike near West Town Mall. Republican candidate for Knox County Sheriff Jimmy J.J. Jones was the speaker.
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Sure it did.
Sen. Hutchinson was just demonstrating how to address the problem of teacher’s compensation from the other end of the equation. If you can’t cut their pay, you can at least thin the population.
“Party of Stupid” is starting to seem to have been a gross understatement…