Should we go back to teaching cursive

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Education cannot be the same as when we were kids. The world is not the same as when we were kids. The job market is not the same as when we were kids. All of these kids need to learn how to type, which, by the way, is also fine motor.

Somehow my middle school managed to teach us cursive and typing.

[Anonymous]

Op is the tolliest of the trolls. What a stupid post.

No one is teaching crt to elementary school students idiot. Do you go to that weird church in Leesburg?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The ability to read and write cursive will be the defining line between upper classes and lower classes. Children in private schools are taught cursive as a matter of course. The public school system, in choosing not to teach cursive, is installing up its own glass ceiling.

Okay grandpa, time to take a nap now.

Actually, the first PP is right.

+1 I see it with our kids in college. It is a delineator also when they are interviewing. We're talking 20 year olds who cannot right their names in cursive. Whoa.

[Anonymous]

right their names in cursive. Whoa.

But can they spell?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The ability to read and write cursive will be the defining line between upper classes and lower classes. Children in private schools are taught cursive as a matter of course. The public school system, in choosing not to teach cursive, is installing up its own glass ceiling.

Okay grandpa, time to take a nap now.

This is true though. The ability to read and write in cursive will be a class marker.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Education cannot be the same as when we were kids. The world is not the same as when we were kids. The job market is not the same as when we were kids. All of these kids need to learn how to type, which, by the way, is also fine motor.

somehow I (and virtually every other adult my age- 40s) knows how to type despite not learning it in school. How can this be?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Education cannot be the same as when we were kids. The world is not the same as when we were kids. The job market is not the same as when we were kids. All of these kids need to learn how to type, which, by the way, is also fine motor.

Somehow my middle school managed to teach us cursive and typing.

I was born in the late 80s and learned cursive in 3rd and typing in "computer class"...probably 4th and 5th grade or so... -- anyone else have Type to Learn? And those orange things that went over the keyboard to prevent us from peeking? LOL. Not sure why it has to be an either or.

[Anonymous]

I agree that cursive is such a beneficial life skill to master. And because it is so easy for young teachers to poo poo it and dismiss it a "not necessary" (especially since they often never had the privilege of being taught it either), now a whole generation of kids is deprived of its benefits.

[Anonymous]

Our 3rd grader’s APS teacher told us that they will be learning cursive this year. I wish every school taught it. In all seriousness, I’ve read that there are cognitive benefits to children learning cursive.

[Anonymous]

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right their names in cursive. Whoa.

But can they spell?

write. Oops, my bad.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I agree that cursive is such a beneficial life skill to master. And because it is so easy for young teachers to poo poo it and dismiss it a "not necessary" (especially since they often never had the privilege of being taught it either), now a whole generation of kids is deprived of its benefits.

Which school district are you in? Are you sure they aren’t teaching it?

[Anonymous]

I truly don't understand why you won't teach your child cursive if you think it's so important?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Education cannot be the same as when we were kids. The world is not the same as when we were kids. The job market is not the same as when we were kids. All of these kids need to learn how to type, which, by the way, is also fine motor.

Somehow my middle school managed to teach us cursive and typing.

Sad, parents no longer take any responsibility. We taught our children both.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What on earth for?

To read the Constitution.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Education cannot be the same as when we were kids. The world is not the same as when we were kids. The job market is not the same as when we were kids. All of these kids need to learn how to type, which, by the way, is also fine motor.

Somehow my middle school managed to teach us cursive and typing.

They don’t need cursive. What a waste of instructional time.