Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I mean it’s 2022. Learning cursive is like…at best a hobby.

Cursive, once learned, is less frustrating and quicker than writing block letters, kids (and everyone else) retain information much better when they write it down and that for younger kids it instills feeling of accomplishment. It also improves neurtal connections in a way that typing cannot. Kids who learn cursive are also usually better spellers in the elementary years. It also improves fine motor skills.

This has already been explained to you.

It is not equitable to teach cursive.

WTH does that mean, that it's not equitable?

PP is probably a troll that wants to stir up controversy. Cursive is supposed to be taught in third grade in Arlington. If your school isn’t doing that then definitely complain to central. More important than cursive is having children write in general. Thankfully ipad usage at APS is down and many classrooms are back to pencil and paper. However fifth graders still have to take tests on their iPads. This makes the test taking process quite difficult since the keyboard takes up half of the screen. APS either needs to give kids keypads and teach typing or resort to pen and paper. I am of the opinion that pen and paper is better in elementary school though I still believe that typing needs to be taught. Email the school board and lobby your legislators. Writing things down helps with memory. Sure cursive helps even more but let’s focus and wean APS off iPads first!

There is a diagram of cursive writing on my son’s 3rd grade class. He has been teaching himself. Presumably they will be formally taught in the 2nd half of the year.

3rd grade at Glebe. My now 9th grader says none of her friends use it, but she does for her journal though not schoolwork.

My kids at ASFS a few years back learned cursive, but they never use it. I'm trying to teach my HS kids to sign things with a distinctive cursive signature, but they just use block print and don't see the point.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I mean it’s 2022. Learning cursive is like…at best a hobby.

Cursive, once learned, is less frustrating and quicker than writing block letters, kids (and everyone else) retain information much better when they write it down and that for younger kids it instills feeling of accomplishment. It also improves neurtal connections in a way that typing cannot. Kids who learn cursive are also usually better spellers in the elementary years. It also improves fine motor skills.

This has already been explained to you.

It is not equitable to teach cursive.

WTH does that mean, that it's not equitable?

And, that's not why they don't push it, BTW