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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Not sure. Though as much as I agree that it would be a good thing to learn, it would be very far down my list of priorities when choosing a school.

DD's school still learns cursive and I've never understood why it would be helpful to learn in this day and age. Would rather have them spend that time practicing typing.

Which school?

French privates teach it - Lycée, Kennedy, École, FASNY

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Not sure. Though as much as I agree that it would be a good thing to learn, it would be very far down my list of priorities when choosing a school.

DD's school still learns cursive and I've never understood why it would be helpful to learn in this day and age. Would rather have them spend that time practicing typing.

There are studies that connect handwriting to better cognitive engagement.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11943480/

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-athletes-way/202010/why-cursive-handwriting-is-good-your-brain

That is kind of odd since doctor's are known for having awful handwriting and they tend to be fairly bright...

The correlation is about the actual physical process of writing by hand, not a comparison of one’s intellect and writing legibility.

Anonymous wrote:My kid “learned” her math facts on a computer and then I had to teach them to her a couple years later. There is a hand to brain connection that doesn’t happen on a computer. You can learn to type when you are older but primary is about acquiring the basic skills to learn anything and hand to brain is the most important one.

Everyone has a different learning style but I agree that for many, writing things down is the best. It definitely is for me - I still take notes the old fashioned way, with some people looking at me like I am crazy. But that is how I retain information. When I was in business school, for many classes we could have a one page cheat sheet for exams, and the process of sorting through information then handwriting it on the sheet of paper was all the studying I needed to do well.

That being said, for classes where kids are writing papers of more than a few sentences, starting in late elementary or early middle school, typing is critical. It makes it much easier to edit and learning to think this way is critical for professional success. My child insisted on handwriting and we had to force them to type these essays as erasing is just not practical, and it is hard to move things around.

My kid “learned” her math facts on a computer and then I had to teach them to her a couple years later. There is a hand to brain connection that doesn’t happen on a computer. You can learn to type when you are older but primary is about acquiring the basic skills to learn anything and hand to brain is the most important one.

While not about cursive, I have noticed a swing back towards handwriting in general since my DS, now an incoming 9th graders, started elementary school. I think between the studies that link handwriting to better absorption of information, and the realization that chrome books, no matter how "locked down," will always be a distraction and kids will ALWAYS find ways around firewalls, I've noticed a huge shift away from them over the past 4-5 years. Schools used to brag about every kids having one, or an iPad, and when we toured high schools, there wasn't a peep about them, and most private schools classrooms didn't have them out. Talking to my DS's own teachers about it, they expressed frustration that kids always are distracted, "hacking" apps and websites in competition with each other...it just isn't worth it to the teachers. By the time my DS graduated from a small K-8 downtown school, other then papers, everything was done old school looseleaf and a pen except for Science, even in-class note-taking. My DS's school did teach cursive (it's a Catholic school so not in OP's ask), but unlike in my day, teachers didn't make kids use it going forward. They learned it, and then went back to whatever they wanted once the practice book was filled.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Not sure. Though as much as I agree that it would be a good thing to learn, it would be very far down my list of priorities when choosing a school.

DD's school still learns cursive and I've never understood why it would be helpful to learn in this day and age. Would rather have them spend that time practicing typing.

There are studies that connect handwriting to better cognitive engagement.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11943480/

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-athletes-way/202010/why-cursive-handwriting-is-good-your-brain

That is kind of odd since doctor's are known for having awful handwriting and they tend to be fairly bright...

Grace

Trinity still teaches cursive.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Not sure. Though as much as I agree that it would be a good thing to learn, it would be very far down my list of priorities when choosing a school.

DD's school still learns cursive and I've never understood why it would be helpful to learn in this day and age. Would rather have them spend that time practicing typing.

Which school?

Trinity

Anonymous wrote:My DS will be entering K in Fall 27, so we’ve begun casual research into our schooling options. I was surprised to learn that cursive writing was no longer a mandate across DOE or independent schools. Does anyone know of schools NYC public or independent(non-catholic) that still teach cursive writing?

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Not sure. Though as much as I agree that it would be a good thing to learn, it would be very far down my list of priorities when choosing a school.

DD's school still learns cursive and I've never understood why it would be helpful to learn in this day and age. Would rather have them spend that time practicing typing.

Which school?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Not sure. Though as much as I agree that it would be a good thing to learn, it would be very far down my list of priorities when choosing a school.

DD's school still learns cursive and I've never understood why it would be helpful to learn in this day and age. Would rather have them spend that time practicing typing.

There are studies that connect handwriting to better cognitive engagement.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11943480/

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-athletes-way/202010/why-cursive-handwriting-is-good-your-brain

Anonymous wrote:Not sure. Though as much as I agree that it would be a good thing to learn, it would be very far down my list of priorities when choosing a school.

DD's school still learns cursive and I've never understood why it would be helpful to learn in this day and age. Would rather have them spend that time practicing typing.

Not sure. Though as much as I agree that it would be a good thing to learn, it would be very far down my list of priorities when choosing a school.

My DS will be entering K in Fall 27, so we’ve begun casual research into our schooling options. I was surprised to learn that cursive writing was no longer a mandate across DOE or independent schools. Does anyone know of schools NYC public or independent(non-catholic) that still teach cursive writing?