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" I completed my first, second and third grade years at St. Isadore catholic school in Long Island. Say what you will about it, but Catholic school has its perks. One of my favorite lessons perpetuated by my first-grade teacher, Sister Virginella, was cursive handwriting. And thank goodness I took to it, because there was quite an emphasis on doing it well. We practiced it often, and, if I can remember correctly, there were even contests. When it came time to sign birthday or thank you cards, the person with the the best script was chosen to do it. But as I hear and as is circulating the web right now, in this day and age, those kinds of lessons, during which the lot of kids agonize over the capitalized form of the cursive letter G, are less common.  According to the Wall Street Journal, Beloit College released it&amp;#039;s annual Mindset List, &amp;quot;a compilation of values&amp;quot; amongst the entering freshman class. One of said values was that &amp;quot;many of the class of 2014 can&amp;#039;t write in cursive because they&amp;#039;ve never learned how, or have never had an occasion to practice their penmanship (&amp;#039;most have been on keyboards since they were toddlers&amp;#039;),&amp;quot; according to WSJ. (Another was that they believe Nirvana plays classical music, but that&amp;#039;s a different blog.) This makes me upset. Script has been a big part of my life; its seeped into crafting and even shaped my print. It&amp;#039;s like being bi-lingual in written language! Plus, it&amp;#039;s plain-old romantic and, not to mention, fun to do (at least for me).  What do you think about the dying art? \u2013 Brynn Mannino, Assistant Editor  Photo courtesy of Blass.   "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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