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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Our third grade student just started class this week. She was told today that she was not allowed to write in cursive. Has anyone else encountered this and do you know the rationale? Her cursive is much neater than her print and cursive tends to be more efficient/useful as an adult. I guess it is not a huge deal, but it seems pretty silly. [/quote] What was the context? The purpose of writing is to convey meaning, and given that most third graders can't read cursive, using cursive on anything that would be read by other third graders defeats the point. I wouldn't ban cursive from my class, but I'd absolutely direct kids to print on things that are going to be read by other kids. Print is far more useful for adults than cursive, given that most forms etc . . . require printing, and most things that aren't forms are more efficiently typed. So, she should be practicing her printing as much as her cursive. [/quote]
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