News, March 4: “Write On”
Cursive Patience
In today's society I find that to be one of the rarest characteristics in any mass of people who are unrelated and unacquainted. Especially the children, who will run over another person in their path if they get the chance. They are in such a hurry to get where they are going that the ordinary polite interactions are tossed on the trash pile. I do believe that the practice of handwriting in cursive would do some small bit toward teaching patience.
MJ Hooper
SFReporter.com
A Better Cursive
A variety of cursives have been used ever since the Romans gave us our Western alphabet more than 2,000 years ago. There must be a better way, a better cursive, one that would be easier to read and faster to write. Perhaps a personal, hybrid print would work. My vote is for italic cursive, an easy-to-learn alphabet that is also easy to read.
Advocates of conventional cursive may truly believe the unproven, unresearched claims that it is superior. Frequently, the media backs up this belief by misinterpreting…researchers. For the sake of better education for our children, serious, thoughtful attention is needed.
Nan Jay Barchowsky
Handwriting Specialist
SFReporter.com
Letters, March 11: “No Impact to Quantity”
Wrong Idea
Food Depot Executive Director Sherry Hooper states that a 50 percent reduction in food deliveries equals the "same quantity of food being distributed," while also stating (in a very defensive letter) that "the Food Depot remains committed to meeting the needs of seniors who are struggling to make ends meet." Huh? What? How? Why?
Food being a perishable commodity, deliveries every two weeks to senior centers means that the food actually reaching a senior's table is at minimum four weeks old! Would you like to sit down at your grandparents' home for a meal and eat stale moldy bread, sprouted potatoes or limp vegetables?
What is really happening at the Food Depot with the delivery frequency change, and where did Sherry Hooper receive her math education? Please help Santa Fe seniors needing weekly food deliveries.
John Golden
Santa Fe
CORRECTION
Last week's letters page failed to identify the author of a letter from Kay Lockridge about the "Mission to Mars" story.
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