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[quote=Anonymous]19:08 here.

I feel like people are interpreting my post in ways that I didn't mean, so I want to apologize for not being clearer.

I was not trying to be alarmist.  I was in fact troubled by the tenor the conversation had taken and was trying to return to a middle ground.

For the purpose of clarity let me bluntly state:

- I think students printing AP tests can get top marks.

- I do not think using cursive on an AP test will cause a higher score.

I did not raise the topic of AP exams (although I did talk in earlier posts about my daughter havng difficulty finishing high school tests requiring essays because she was printing.  I was, in fact, not referring to APs but classroom tests).

My purpose for posting my 19:08 post was to try to get away from the binary thinking.  Just as I think kids can do well on APs without cursive, I think that cursive can make it easier for some kids (possibly, but not necessarily yours) to do well.  Just as somebody else finding cursive useful, shouldn't require your kids to take an AP test in cursive, your children's success printing their AP test shouldn't be seen as evidence that cursive won't be useful for somebody else.

It is a tool for the toolbox.  Once they have the tool, they can choose rather or not to use it.  Anybody can and should decide what tool works best for them to complete any given task at any given time.  There are tasks that I choose to print.  There are tasks that I choose to type (a skill my mother forced me to learn against my will in junior high, but which I've been thanking her for ever since).  I'm glad I have all three choices in my repertoire.  I don't expect others to choose the same way I do, but I want them to have the choice to make.
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