Should we go back to teaching cursive

[Anonymous]

Instant of teaching CRT should we teach kids to read and write in cursive?
We should go back to old school and not so much CRT

[Anonymous]

hahahahahahaha. Good bait and switch, OP. You are so clever. So much smarter than everyone else. I'll bet you are really good looking, too.

[Anonymous]

What on earth for?

[Anonymous]

Yes absolutely. It’s great for the brain, and now kids can’t even read old letters. There’s a whole subreddit on having people translate old cursive letters/documents because young people can’t read them.

[Anonymous]

There is software that all you do is hold your phone to and it translates or writes cursive for you. We need to be teaching computer science. Then lower income students would qualify for subsidies in technology. Also we'd have less "nerdy" but incompetent engineers and more actual talent-based enrollment.

[Anonymous]

Of course. How else will people be able to write formal letters like handwritten thank you notes? It's insane that it's not taught anymore.

[Anonymous]

I taught my kids, because it was important to me. There are studies showing that memorization is more efficient when things are handwritten rather than typed, and cursive is the most rapid of handwritings. So when my kids need to take notes, I want them to be able to use paper and ink just as easily as they can type.

[Anonymous]

Hell yes, just for fine-motor skills and hand-eye coordination alone.

[Anonymous]

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.

[Anonymous]

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.

[Anonymous]

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.

[Anonymous]

We taught our kid in 2/3rd. Same with math tables.

[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.

Actually, the first PP is right.

[Anonymous]

APS teaches cursive - at least they did pre-covid at least.

No area elementary schools teach CRT, d1ckhead.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:APS teaches cursive - at least they did pre-covid at least.

No area elementary schools teach CRT, d1ckhead.

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