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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My 4th grader came home from the first day and told me they are learning cursive this year. She had a massive packet of cursive practice pages in her folder. This is the same child who didn’t get direct instruction for letter printing or handwriting in their MCPS K-3 classes.

I have been raising concerns about lack of handwriting instruction and basic letter formation since K with our school, and was told MCPS didn’t buy the handwriting module of Benchmark until after my child’s class went through. But apparently now the younger kids do receive handwriting instruction.

Last year the third grade teachers I talked with acknowledged this class of kids struggles with writing and printing, but said they would not do any remediation and would also not be teaching cursive.

Does anyone know why the decision was made to now introduce cursive in 4th, or has this always been part of 4th? Or is this up to individual schools? 
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Why are they learning? 
Let's make America 1980 again.
It's already happening in other areas, why not with cursive writing?[/quote]

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