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[quote=Anonymous]This isn't just FCPS, it's everywhere. Unfortunately handwriting and cursive dropped off the national standards a few years ago and have never been on the SOLs. When this dropped off the standards many school systems immedicately dropped the ball on handwriting let alone cursive. Many sysytems don't provide a focus on handwriting beyond first grade and never introduce cursive. There are so many benefits to handwriting practice and to cursive including benefits to spelling with motor memory, improvement in reversals, benefits to fine motor skills in general, improved performance on creative writing. Let alone that no one will have cursive signatures or be able to read documents. Basically whatever your kids skills are by the end of first grade are what they are as far as handwriting goes. For generations before them all children's fine motor skills benefited from the tedious time everyday over several years to learn print and cursive. [/quote]
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