This news clip isn’t the most timely but its relevance, to us, remains. It’s encouraging to see that handwriting is still taught in schools and children are learning and enjoying this form of communication.
The company behind this initiative is called “Handwriting Without Tears”; we don’t know why it’s called that but if you do, let us know! It’s unfortunate, however, that the clip only refers to “Handwriting Without Tears” as a teaching “method” without mentioning that it’s also a money-making business; oh well, at least the kids may eventually get higher SAT scores, according to the clip.
“And when I got to the script, I really enjoy it because it seems more elegant like… unique.” – Ashley Ragoonanan
Well put Ashley; we couldn’t have said it better ourselves.
*View the clip here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wK-kB2IMx2A
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October 22, 2007 at 2:57 am
Kate Gladstone
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> “Handwriting Without Tears”; we don’t know why
> it’s called that but if you do, let us know!
The name puzzles me, too, since as a handwriting improvement specialist I see A LOT of former “successful graduates” of this program (young or grown) who have wept over it, during lessons and/or afterwards at the results. (At least some folks’ handwriting gets visibly worse during and/or after the program.)
In a number of cases known to me, when the HWTears users (or their parents or teachers) had called the HWTears firm to complain about the observed non-success, weeping, etc., HWTears corporate staffers replied: “Call back when you have a success story. We are oriented towards success, not failure” or words to that effect.