It's a familiar refrain. Parents lament that technology is turning good, legible handwriting into a lost art form for their kids.
In response, lawmakers in state after state -- particularly in the South -- are carving out space in teachers' classroom time to keep the graceful loops of cursive writing alive for the next generation.Alabama passed a law requiring it in 2016. That same year, Louisiana passed its own cursive law. Others like Arkansas, Virginia, California, Florida and North Carolina, have similar laws.
Cursive writing helps strengthen a child’s hands as well as any print work. Fine motor skills are being lost. So many children on devices and computers. An occupational therapist told me that a lot of kids she sees can’t even hold a pencil or crayon at age 4 due to weakness.
Cursive writing should be taught and used so people can read history...either personal historical family documents or public documents and materials which are stored in libraries, universities and colleges!
More useful than half of the crazy things students are learning.
It dumbfounds me that ANYONE would ever have thought cursive was unimportant! Oh yes, let’s go back to the days when people made an ‘X’ when signing their names. The problem with education is the people dreaming up this crap to begin with. Go back to basics.
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My 8 yr old granddaughter asked me to teach her cursive and has picked it up very quickly.
Not teaching cursive writing was foolish to say the very least, bring it back and find something else dumb to do.
Duh?
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Cursive is the only way I write. It's faster and easier on the wrist. Now I am just waiting for the day someone says they can't understand my post-it note.
Calligraphy... beautiful art... cursive... unnecessary waste of class time... focus on computer language learning... imo
Let’s go back to typing on typewriters while we’re at it. Or ditching calculators for slide rules. Why do we refuse to adapt to changing times? Teach something useful
The scribbling of witches if you ask me. So we really want our kids in witchcraft? Let’s just put away the dark arts and stick to sans serif please. truth PalmSunday
Absolute waste of time, but hey, Texas has been trying to live in the past recently anyway
Texas conservatives have created a state that teaches kids that reading and education are elitist, but damn you should know how to write cursive.
My daughter is learning it in 3rd grade and I'm happy about it. I think it's a great beginning on how to learn to sign her name and even read older documents drafted in script. Most people dont use 'cursive' as adults, I realize that, but skills may be based off what we learned.
I think they should.
It was disappointing to see it phased out. I was angry to see all the shop classes, home economics and vocational classes disappear. RPS205 board of education has more money for their pockets and the children who do graduate are have less and less opportunities. Thanks RPS205
Perhaps we should go back to slide rules? And those cute little slates with chalk? Sun dials? There are so many modern advancements we could do without it is hard to decide, but scratching your message on pulp is probably a good start. Saves on printer ink. Or the ditto machine?
It's useless. I learned it and never use it.
Why tho?
The structure of beautiful writing teaches you so my things far and above the actual purpose of written communication
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It's interesting that you don't learn cursive in the first place
Good kids today do it know how to write
I like it. very beautiful handwriting.
How do you sign your name if you can't write in cursive?
cursive writing skill teaches more than just the letters. It is also good for understanding sentence fluency, finer motor skills and general language understanding. I consider it very important
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It's useless and outdated. I never learned it and never had a problem.
I never understood why cursive was phased out of schools. If I have kids I’m teaching it to them even if the school won’t.
Teach them to properly type on keyboard instead.
Basically no more useful than calligraphy. Complete waste of time to enforce learning it. There are more important things to focus on in this day and age, like typing skills.
In my idea, it is a perfect wat to learn how to write and have perfect handriting style
Y tho
Thank God more Californians are moving to Texas.
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