Cursive

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Cursive has gone the way of calligraphy and provides no value. Proper typing classes would be a much better use of the kids' time. Almost anything provides more value than cursive in 2026.

The fine motor skill development associated with learning cursive is an important part of overall development.

Time far better spent that learning about gender identity or the progressive issue of the day.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Cursive has gone the way of calligraphy and provides no value. Proper typing classes would be a much better use of the kids' time. Almost anything provides more value than cursive in 2026.

And again, the pro-tech people who never look at neuroscience research... which shows neural/memory benefits from handwritten notes. And if you've ever handwritten anything, you would know that cursive makes it much faster and easier on the hand.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Cursive has gone the way of calligraphy and provides no value. Proper typing classes would be a much better use of the kids' time. Almost anything provides more value than cursive in 2026.

The fine motor skill development associated with learning cursive is an important part of overall development.

Time far better spent that learning about gender identity or the progressive issue of the day.

I like when people make up stuff about schools to do their whole "old man yells at cloud" act.

I have a FCPS kid who decided to learn cursive all on his own (I got him a book and showed him some of the trickier letters) and had some fun with it, but it does take some regular practice. My kid integrates it into his regular art projects/drawings (a lot of which he does at SACC).

I think it's a bit of a parlor trick, to be honest. I've used it to decorate some posters and do fancy invitations. My husband says he's never used it.

Definitely not worth the hours we spent drilling it. If my kid wasn't self interested, I wouldn't have bothered.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Cursive has gone the way of calligraphy and provides no value. Proper typing classes would be a much better use of the kids' time. Almost anything provides more value than cursive in 2026.

The fine motor skill development associated with learning cursive is an important part of overall development.

Time far better spent that learning about gender identity or the progressive issue of the day.

Ok.
You experienced this at which grade level?

[Anonymous]

Ha, same school, one of my kids never had cursive, the other has had it for the past three years.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Cursive has gone the way of calligraphy and provides no value. Proper typing classes would be a much better use of the kids' time. Almost anything provides more value than cursive in 2026.

And again, the pro-tech people who never look at neuroscience research... which shows neural/memory benefits from handwritten notes. And if you've ever handwritten anything, you would know that cursive makes it much faster and easier on the hand.

Doesn't have to be typing. I'd literally rather my kids get more recess time than be taught cursive. It is obsolete.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you ever want to research your family tree, you need to know cursive. Of course, now they are training AI to read handwriting, but they still need humans to correct mistakes.

It's sad that kids and even young adults have difficulty reading cursive. They have trouble reading greeting cards from their grandparents. My mother sent her granddaughter a card. It got sent back, even though the address was correct. I asked her if she wrote it in cursive and she said yes. We figured the postal workers couldn't read cursive. It's like having a certain kind of illiteracy.

Seeing as the addresses are read by computer and they read zillions of cursive addresses a day, that’s doubtful.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Teach it at home.

OP here - I did. But obviously teaching it in school would be better.

Why would teaching in school be better?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Teach it at home.

OP here - I did. But obviously teaching it in school would be better.

Why would teaching in school be better?

I'm wondering the same thing.

I'm always confused by parents who think very basic skills.are best taught in school.

The other parents (not necessarily the OP, just in general) who confuse me are the ones who do not think they have any responsibility for their children's learning. They don't think they should read with their children, enforce math concepts while cooking with their kids, teach physics while playing with their kids, etc. They are extremely hands-off and think that parenting is just feeding and clothing their kids. They think the school should teach basic life skills, manners, and everything else. But then they get mad when the school teaches those things.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Cursive has gone the way of calligraphy and provides no value. Proper typing classes would be a much better use of the kids' time. Almost anything provides more value than cursive in 2026.

How do you have a signature with cursive? Do your kids print their name or just sign with an X?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Cursive has gone the way of calligraphy and provides no value. Proper typing classes would be a much better use of the kids' time. Almost anything provides more value than cursive in 2026.

How do you have a signature with cursive? Do your kids print their name or just sign with an X?

I work with the public and most signatures are basically scrawls anyway. Some do block letters and there's no issue. But a signature is totally different from a full knowledge of cursive.

[Anonymous]

Actually, for my child with learning issues around spelling and writing, adding it to his iep in 3rd grade was such a success he worked his worked his way through all iep goals and only had a 504 through high school. Graduating and probably only using 504

[Anonymous]

Ability to read/write cursive will be an educational flag for the next generation. Fortunately, Montessori still teaches print first, and then also cursive.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Actually, for my child with learning issues around spelling and writing, adding it to his iep in 3rd grade was such a success he worked his worked his way through all iep goals and only had a 504 through high school. Graduating and probably only using 504

Agree this for many children.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Cursive has gone the way of calligraphy and provides no value. Proper typing classes would be a much better use of the kids' time. Almost anything provides more value than cursive in 2026.

How do you have a signature with cursive? Do your kids print their name or just sign with an X?

I work with teens everyday, they just scribble something - some variation of first letters and a scribble - same as 90% of the adults I know who learned cursive in school.