How does fountain pens improve handwriting?

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I was told by one student that at his middle school, in North Carolina, a fountain pen is forbidden as it is perceived to be a possible weapon! I wonder how much more damage a nib woud do, than a ball point? Or a roller ball? Of course, they say school buses can't have seat belts as they can be weapons. What about throwing the keyboard?

Or how about hurling a roller ball at a teacher like a spear or javelin??

Please,give me a break. This "security issue" nonsense is going way too far.

Next thing they will do is outlaw books at school since they can be used as projectiles.

 

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[Betty]

Then pencils should be forbidden too if that's their logic. Pencils hurt...and they poke your eye out, as my 6th grade teacher always says.

[wimg]

Hi Betty,

 

All kids are taught cursive writing at primary school over here, in the Netherlands, with the aid of fountain pens, yes. Most popular school pens are Lamy and Waterman.

 

This was no different from the time I was at primary school btw, quite a few decades ago. The difference now is that you're allowed to write with fountain pens straight away, while we were taught to write with dip pens first . Only in year 5 some time, or even later, you were allowed to write with a fountain pen, to do your home work or so, provided you had passed the "Schoonschrijven" tests (literally calligraphy in old fashioned Dutch; in reality more like cursive script ).

 

Only in secondary school are you allowed to write with ball point pens, although some primary schools allow BPs in the last year. I wrote with fountain pens right through all 6 years of secondary school , and my first year and a half in tertiary education .

 

Warm regards, Wim

[Betty]

Hi Betty,

 

All kids are taught cursive writing at primary school over here, in the Netherlands, with the aid of fountain pens, yes. Most popular school pens are Lamy and Waterman.

 

This was no different from the time I was at primary school btw, quite a few decades ago. The difference now is that you're allowed to write with fountain pens straight away, while we were taught to write with dip pens first . Only in year 5 some time, or even later, you were allowed to write with a fountain pen, to do your home work or so, provided you had passed the "Schoonschrijven" tests (literally calligraphy in old fashioned Dutch; in reality more like cursive script ).

 

Only in secondary school are you allowed to write with ball point pens, although some primary schools allow BPs in the last year. I wrote with fountain pens right through all 6 years of secondary school , and my first year and a half in tertiary education .

 

Warm regards, Wim

Ahh...how I very wish that the USA required using fountain pens for writing in primary school...maybe US people will have neater handwriting. Some of the handwriting I see from people are, well.... I especially despise those big fat bubbly letters but are also curved.

 

I notice that Non-USA grown people seem to have much neater handwriting. There are some of my co-workers from China, Jamica, France that have pretty decent writing.

[Slush99]

Then pencils should be forbidden too if that's their logic. Pencils hurt...and they poke your eye out, as my 6th grade teacher always says.

owww... sharper. I know how that feels. :blink: well, somone told me they make you want to write better because they(the pens) make you feel that they should get better treatment.

 

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[Dillo]

Then pencils should be forbidden too if that's their logic.  Pencils hurt...and they poke your eye out, as my 6th grade teacher always says.

owww... sharper. I know how that feels. :blink: well, somone told me they make you want to write better because they(the pens) make you feel that they should get better treatment.

 

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Hi,

 

Ow!!! Well, someone placed a freshly sharpened pencil on the floor and I stepped on it about a year ago!!!

 

Dillon

[woodwindmaster06]

I think the real reason is the simple pleasure of writing is present with a nibbed pen, and on any other tool there is no pleasure.

 

It is entirely an emotional concept, the pleasure comes from all of the statements expressed before.