Do you think it is important to know how to read/write cursive?

[Anonymous]

Absolutely yes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's not another language. Kids need to learn it. If they decide not to use it, that's fine but you have to read it.

How sad it is not to be able to read letters written by your grandparents or documents written in cursive.

Stop with the crazy 2.0 stuff and teach kids how to write.

Bravo!

[Anonymous]

I have a hard time believing it would be even remotely difficult to read cursive if you were never taught it. If presented with your dear grandmother's letter, you really wouldn't be able to figure it out? It's not code or a foreign language.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have a hard time believing it would be even remotely difficult to read cursive if you were never taught it. If presented with your dear grandmother's letter, you really wouldn't be able to figure it out? It's not code or a foreign language.

I don't see how someone who never learned cursive would recognize a cursive lowercase B, F, Q, R, or V or uppercase F, G, I, L, Q, S, T, or Z. That's a lot of letters.

[Anonymous]

No not important. My kid's grandmothers wrote in Korean and Russian, respectively, so DC wouldn't be able to read it anyway.

Could not care less about DC learning to read/write cursive. The only time DH and I use it is when we sign our names. We are both attorneys.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No not important. My kid's grandmothers wrote in Korean and Russian, respectively, so DC wouldn't be able to read it anyway.

Could not care less about DC learning to read/write cursive. The only time DH and I use it is when we sign our names. We are both attorneys.

ouch! lol! Not everyone has "murican" roots! yee ha!

[Anonymous]

Why don't YOU just stop being crazy?

Your meds are calling you.

Anonymous wrote:It's not another language. Kids need to learn it. If they decide not to use it, that's fine but you have to read it.

How sad it is not to be able to read letters written by your grandparents or documents written in cursive.

Stop with the crazy 2.0 stuff and teach kids how to write.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have a hard time believing it would be even remotely difficult to read cursive if you were never taught it. If presented with your dear grandmother's letter, you really wouldn't be able to figure it out? It's not code or a foreign language.

I don't see how someone who never learned cursive would recognize a cursive lowercase B, F, Q, R, or V or uppercase F, G, I, L, Q, S, T, or Z. That's a lot of letters.

They would recognize them from context. (Unless your dear grandmother was in the habit of writing individual uppercase Fs (or whatever) in her letter. Like a code.)

I can't read my dear great-grandfather's letters, because he wrote them in a German handwriting that nobody born after World War II can read.

http://www.suetterlinschrift.de/Englisch/Sutterlin.htm

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:While, for example listening to a conversation, one can capture far more detail and information using cursive than when doing block printing, and far less energy and effort is diverted into prioritization.

Cursive is much faster than printing and can capture information almost as fast as the stream of consciousness - and that helps the brain to encode information far more effectively than choppy bits and pieces via block printing.

Exactly. Learning cursive also helps in brain development.

[Anonymous]

What's the big deal with learning cursive? Why not skip what you call "printing"? Always amazed how slowly people who can't write cursive write a note!
First you learn capital letters, then you learn cursive.What is printing for exactly? Computer does that!Why would you lift up your hand after each word?What a waste of time.
Anyhow, not a big deal to learn all 3.Cursive might be hard to read if the person's handwriting sucks.I've yet to not understand a note that was written in cursive.

[Anonymous]

Montessori teaches cursive before print.

Anonymous wrote:What's the big deal with learning cursive? Why not skip what you call "printing"? Always amazed how slowly people who can't write cursive write a note!
First you learn capital letters, then you learn cursive.What is printing for exactly? Computer does that!Why would you lift up your hand after each word?What a waste of time.
Anyhow, not a big deal to learn all 3.Cursive might be hard to read if the person's handwriting sucks.I've yet to not understand a note that was written in cursive.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have a hard time believing it would be even remotely difficult to read cursive if you were never taught it. If presented with your dear grandmother's letter, you really wouldn't be able to figure it out? It's not code or a foreign language.

I don't see how someone who never learned cursive would recognize a cursive lowercase B, F, Q, R, or V or uppercase F, G, I, L, Q, S, T, or Z. That's a lot of letters.

They would recognize them from context. (Unless your dear grandmother was in the habit of writing individual uppercase Fs (or whatever) in her letter. Like a code.)

I can't read my dear great-grandfather's letters, because he wrote them in a German handwriting that nobody born after World War II can read.

http://www.suetterlinschrift.de/Englisch/Sutterlin.htm

Exactly. Plus, some of the above mentioned letters would most definitely be easy to identify alone. Lowercase b? Really? S? F? V? Seriously, none of these are difficult. Maybe q is a little unusual. Are you incapable of reading calligraphy? It's not hard.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:While, for example listening to a conversation, one can capture far more detail and information using cursive than when doing block printing, and far less energy and effort is diverted into prioritization.

Cursive is much faster than printing and can capture information almost as fast as the stream of consciousness - and that helps the brain to encode information far more effectively than choppy bits and pieces via block printing.

Exactly. Learning cursive also helps in brain development.

DS has ADHD, and his lack of ability to focus has caused some delays. He has a hard time sustaining focus on long, complex tasks. An example is a science experiment where they observe, take notes, and write a conclusion. I bought DS the "Handwriting Without Tears" cursive book. DS taught himself from the book in 2nd grade. He's doing so much better now - couldn't take notes before and is finishing projects now. His doctor noted that cursive uses the mind in a different way that helps one pay attention while their writing. DS is the only kid in his class who writes in cursive, but his teacher thinks its great. We've seen cursive as a plus, but we have a kid wired differently.

[Anonymous]

I enjoy writing in cursive. It feelings relaxing. I write messages all day and always use cursive.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I enjoy writing in cursive. It feelings relaxing. I write messages all day and always use cursive.

Feels