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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]It is not rocket science to teach kids cursive and takes about 20 minutes a day give or take depending upon child's age. I taught my kid cursive by reading the instructor's manual. However, many teachers are not well versed in teaching phonics ans syllabication to students. Many students have suffered from educational neglect with the whole reading debacle and the lack of solid instruction in how to read.[/quote]

I do wish they taught cursive.  However, look at the curriculum.  What would you have them give up for twenty minutes a day? [/quote]

It doesn't need to be an EXTRA 20 minutes a day. Mine learned cursive in K in an international school. Cursive handwriting is fully integrated into the study of the letters and phonemes. By the end of K, they can write in cursive easily, and in first grade their fast handwriting allows them to move right into writing longer sentences and paragraphs. If you insist on teaching children only block printing, in most cases their hands can't keep up with their thoughts, and their writing may lag behind the writing of children who learned faster ways of writing (or typing/keyboarding, but obviously you don't send your first grader to school with his/her own laptop).

My children are now older and despite being competent computer users with decent programming skills have discovered (on their own) the time-honored trick of rewriting your notes/thoughts (in cursive, on paper) before tests. It's a wonderful way to lodge concepts in the brain and enhance later recall. If you can't do this in handwriting, it takes way too much time. [/quote]

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