[ver_ture]

They're surprisingly silly. English developed completely separately from Japanese/Asia, so this teacher is pulling line-directions and rules out of her ass. There are no such conventions for the alphabet. Her poor students and their hand cramps, out there writing in courier.

[kps]

The Latin alphabet does have historical developmental stroke directions, not by rules but by what's natural and possible using the historical Euro writing tool — a broad-cut reed or quill pen. In this sense the Japanese stroke order for Latin letters is wrong; you can't push a reed pen to write an ‘O’ that way.

[stock_toaster]

Yeah, the "O" stood out to me as objectively wrong as well.

[bradly]

Stroke order is an important part of writing in Japanese culture, with conventions. They aren't random. It is reasonable to a come up with a similar stroke ordering system for learning other languages in Japan. Calling them silly and pulled out of her ass is dismissive to the Japanese culture, the teacher, or the students.

[ver_ture]

Creating this Japanese overlay of rules for English writing is disingenuous. The students might be in for a minor shellshock outside of her class.

I respect the conventions they have for writing in Japanese, it's perfectly tailored to using a brush. The teacher should respect English conventions, the free-form, the cursive, either one.

[bradly]

> it's perfectly tailored to using a brush.

It isn't just using a brush; even with a pen and paper simple hiragana is easier when using proper stroke order.

> The teacher should respect English conventions

The teacher is following Japanese culture conventions to teach people of the Japanese culture a different language. People unfamiliar with the culture or the teacher should respect that.