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[quote=Anonymous]While not about cursive, I have noticed a swing back towards handwriting in general since my DS, now an incoming 9th graders, started elementary school. I think between the studies that link handwriting to better absorption of information, and the realization that chrome books, no matter how "locked down," will always be a distraction and kids will ALWAYS find ways around firewalls, I've noticed a huge shift away from them over the past 4-5 years. Schools used to brag about every kids having one, or an iPad, and when we toured high schools, there wasn't a peep about them, and most private schools classrooms didn't have them out. Talking to my DS's own teachers about it, they expressed frustration that kids always are distracted, "hacking" apps and websites in competition with each other...it just isn't worth it to the teachers. By the time my DS graduated from a small K-8 downtown school, other then papers, everything was done old school looseleaf and a pen except for Science, even in-class note-taking. My DS's school did teach cursive (it's a Catholic school so not in OP's ask), but unlike in my day, teachers didn't make kids use it going forward. They learned it, and then went back to whatever they wanted once the practice book was filled.[/quote]

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