Is your child learning cursive handwriting in school?

[Anonymous]

I can't believe that schools still teach cursive! Who actually uses cursive in everyday or in business writing? That just seems so antiquated to me.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I can't believe that schools still teach cursive! Who actually uses cursive in everyday or in business writing? That just seems so antiquated to me.

Today I used cursive:
1) wrote a check to pay the pool guy for a new pool pump motor and addressed the envelope
2) at the ER with my daughter for a broken are I signed my name (in cursive) about 10 times
3) left a note for my EA (who was at lunch) that I was leaving for the day and would be on cell phone if needed (reference back to ED...). I shut down my computer before I thought to email her.
4) wrote 3 thank you letters to employees who went above and beyond (this is the norm at my place of business)
5) wrote a short note to the teacher to wish her a happy birthday
6) used post it notes to write several edits and changes to a document while sitting in ED waiting room (for hours on end)

So, while one may not spend all day writing in cursive, it crops up several times a day.

[Anonymous]

Okay, I checked this thread b/c my daughter is learned cursive in Montessori kindergarden. I totally am learning a couple things- one, MY German mother's emphasis on fountain pens seems to be a German thing and two, just because as a left-hander I can't use them doesn't mean I can't write well!

Yay.

[Anonymous]

learned in 3rd grade but at one high-school there was a class dedicated to cursive writng.

[Anonymous]

DCPS. One of my kids learned in 3rd grade, the other in 4th.

[Anonymous]

Hello,

My name is Taylor Shapiro. I'm an education reporter at The Washington Post. I'm working on a story about cursive instruction in D.C. area schools. I'm particularly interested to hear from parents and teachers in the region who are strongly pro-cursive and anti-cursive. Please e-mail me at shapirot [at] washpost [dot] com. Thanks for your help.

-TRS

[Anonymous]

Call any Montessori school. The Montessori method is strongly pro-cursive writing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Call any Montessori school. The Montessori method is strongly pro-cursive writing.

Catholic schools as well.

[Anonymous]

Some states require it in the public schools, others do not. Maryland state standards require cursive, so kids in public schools learn it around 3rd grade.

I believe by the end of 3rd grade they are expected to use it exclusively (but that may only be some schools/teachers and not others).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Montessori teacher here. At my Montessori school (Primary Classroom) we teach cursive.

Yes, Montessori here, too. All those reasons that Montessori teaches cursive first, right from the start, are brilliant. Spacing words, natural movement, etc. I'd never thought of them before.

Some of them here:

http://www.montessori.org.au/questions/cursive.htm

[Anonymous]

I'm curious whether any schools offer typing class? Is that just something kids learn with their iPads and laptops? I remember suffering through my typing class in junior high in the 80's.


My son's school starts typing in 3rd grade. They begin cursive in 2nd grade (after XMAS break). I believe they are expected to write everything in cursive beginning in 3rd grade. The typing program is called EduType I think.