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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I work in an office with 20 and 30 year-olds from around the world (India, China, etc.) all with very different backgrounds. They all learned to write English in cursive.  I was very embarrassed for one of our 28 year old managers who couldn't read notes from one of them and had to make a joke about it in a meeting.  She was pegged as an American public school graduate who couldn't read something the rest of the room could.  I think not knowing cursive limits you and is just ONE more thing being taken out of our schools while the rest of the world marches on. [/quote]

I'm a bit baffled by people who can't [i]read[/i] any cursive (except for the goofy capital letters, which are just dumb in standard American classroom cursive. I don't know what cursive people learn in Indian or Chinese schools). But ok, schools can take a week or so, maybe in third or fourth grade, to go over reading American cursive. How about that?[/quote]

My kid writes in cursive exclusively since I taught him which helped improve his writing and fine motor issues tremendously. One of his teachers actually wanted him to print instead of using cursive for English class and I believe it is because she could not read cursive! Well I strongly objected and told the principal that I expect my kid to be able to use cursive for handwritten assignments/tests since it took me years to fix his dysgraphia issues. I pointed out that it should only take a teacher a few hours to learn how to read cursive whereas to expect my son to print would be a much greater ordeal to say the least![/quote]

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