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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Ha, I wish my kid had learned how to write cursive. We barely had printing down at our local ES before 3rd grade.[/quote]

Why? It's a useless antiquated skill [/quote]

Amen to this. I may have my kids work on it as I think it's a nice skill to have, but I have to laugh at the idea that people aren't smart because they can't write in cursive. Cursive came into use to preserve the quill a person would be writing with centuries ago. Later it evolved into penmanship, which is very much a class based tool to judge your background. So it's funny to me that people think the level of education is declining and they are clutching their pearls because their kids don't have this obsolete skill.

I remember our teachers drilling us for whole class periods to learn to write cursive. It's the 21st century. I'd much rather my kids be learning knowledge or skills that will actually benefit them, like math, science, basic computer science/coding, etc.[/quote]
I’ve never seen somebody so confident about their knowledge of the history of writing and the origin of cursive and yet so astoundingly wrong at the same time. 
Signed, a type designer [/quote]

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