What the Schools Teach and Might Teach

by John Franklin Bobbitt

HANDWRITING

Cleveland gives a considerably larger proportion of time to handwriting than the average of the 50 cities.

TABLE 5.—TIME GIVEN TO HANDWRITING ======================================================== | Hours per year | Per cent of grade time |———————————-|———————————— Grade | Cleveland | 50 cities | Cleveland | 50 cities ———————————————————————————— 1 | 47 | 50 | 6.5 | 6.7 2 | 63 | 60 | 7.2 | 6.7 3 | 63 | 52 | 7.2 | 5.7 4 | 63 | 53 | 7.2 | 5.5 5 | 67 | 50 | 6.4 | 5.1 6 | 47 | 47 | 5.4 | 4.8 7 | 47 | 39 | 5.4 | 3.9 8 | 32 | 37 | 3.6 | 3.7 ======================================================== Total | 419 | 388 | 6.1 | 5.1 ————————————————————————————

The curriculum of handwriting resolves itself mainly into questions of method, and of standards to be achieved in each of the grades. These matters are treated intensively in the section of the survey report entitled "Measuring the Work of the Public Schools."