Anonymous
Post 02/25/2013 17:15     Subject: Cursive writing question
Evergreen Montessori
Silver Spring
Primary & Early Elementary classrooms
Anonymous
Post 02/25/2013 17:11     Subject: Re:Cursive writing question
Taylor,

Could you please stop the spamming via old threads? How about posting a a single query in Off Topic?

Thank you.

Your friend,
Anonymous
Anonymous
Post 02/25/2013 15:51     Subject: Re:Cursive writing question
Hello,

My name is Taylor Shapiro. I'm an education reporter at The Washington Post. I'm working on a story about cursive instruction in D.C. area schools. I'm particularly interested to hear from parents and teachers in the region who are strongly pro-cursive and anti-cursive. Please e-mail me at shapirot [at] washpost [dot] com. Thanks for your help.

-TRS
Anonymous
Post 04/28/2012 17:50     Subject: Cursive writing question
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:writes essays


*writing essays* and of course you don't make stupid autocorrect mistakes in cursive
Anonymous
Post 04/28/2012 17:48     Subject: Cursive writing question
Anonymous wrote:Catholic School K-8, cursive taught starting in Grade 2, assignments completed in cursive throughout. Some assignments are allowed to be typed but not all. DS in high school now and drafts of papers are completed in cursive and turned in for correction. Final copies are typed. He says he uses cursive for essay questions on exams as it is much faster than printing.


Catholic school here too and cursive is used exclusively once they use it in Gr. 2. In middle school they can type some papers but all schoolwork is in cursive. My kids definitely agree writes essays is faster in cursive than print.

My friend is an archivist and says within a short time we will have a whole group of people not able to read the cursive writing on historical documents. I hadn't thought about that!
Anonymous
Post 04/28/2012 17:24     Subject: Cursive writing question
Catholic School K-8, cursive taught starting in Grade 2, assignments completed in cursive throughout. Some assignments are allowed to be typed but not all. DS in high school now and drafts of papers are completed in cursive and turned in for correction. Final copies are typed. He says he uses cursive for essay questions on exams as it is much faster than printing.
Anonymous
Post 04/28/2012 17:10     Subject: Re:Cursive writing question
Beauvoir grade 3
Anonymous
Post 04/28/2012 15:54     Subject: Re:Cursive writing question
Cursive handwriting is pushed by teachers in our Montessori school starting in K. It gets really serious in 1st. All cursive all the time.
Anonymous
Post 04/28/2012 11:26     Subject: Cursive writing question
Anonymous wrote:Cursive is taught at WIS, don't know which grade it starts.


Don't know whether it starts earlier, but cursive is taught in Kindergarten at WIS.
Anonymous
Post 04/28/2012 09:57     Subject: Re:Cursive writing question
Anonymous wrote:PP, Which school? So cursive was not required for class and homework assignments?


PDS and no.Certainly not for HS. assignments are either typed or for tests they use print.
Anonymous
Post 04/28/2012 09:43     Subject: Re:Cursive writing question
CHDS. I can't remember which grade it was taught. Maybe 3rd or 4th? It was required for some assignments after that. By 7th it was not required and a lot of assignments were typed. In high school (obviously not at CHDS) it is never required.
Anonymous
Post 04/28/2012 09:42     Subject: Cursive writing question
Cursive is taught at WIS, don't know which grade it starts.
Anonymous
Post 04/28/2012 09:30     Subject: Re:Cursive writing question
PP, Which school? So cursive was not required for class and homework assignments?
Anonymous
Post 04/28/2012 09:27     Subject: Cursive writing question
2nd grade, does not write in cursive even in high school. when signing his name I always have to remind him to use cursive for his signature!

It seems to be a lost art
Anonymous
Post 04/28/2012 09:16     Subject: Cursive writing question
Please share what grade your child learned cursive, which school, and whether its required for writing thereafter. Thanks in advance