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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Is this really a question?  You can teach your kid how to sign their name in cursive if it bothers you so much.  It should take all of 15 minutes.  Or even easier, show their name in one of the cursive fonts in Microsoft word and have them copy it.

OP is like one of the people mourning the lost art of calligraphy.  Move on.  Kids shouldn't be wasting time learning cursive-when the US is so far behind in STEM education.[/quote]

Wrong wrong wrong.

Stem is not an end all be all, it is part of a larger educational mileau.

As an example, Japanese children learn to write kanji (Chinese characters) hiragana and katakana (two different syllabaries one for Japanese words and one for foreign words) plus they learn English. They learn 4 different written scripts. They excel at STEM, they don’t touch a computer in school until highschool.

Learning is learning. Our children need to learn to write and to write, it helps their brain develop which helps them become proficient at other tasks. Kids needs play and recess too. The need to learn rote math skills (not Common Core abstractions when their brains are not developed for abstract thought). These rote skills are building blocks upon which the higher mathematic principles are formed.

Do we want our children to be educated adults or robots? [/quote]

It makes no sense, you cannot be adept at science unless you are highly literate, learning cursive helps improve literacy; verbal, reading, and writing) proficiency. That is scientific fact. How can one be so proSTEM and anti-science at the same time??[/quote]

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