Anonymous wrote:Cursive is just faster - not picking up and putting down pen after every single letter… it’s just practical for people who write a lot and for whatever reason prefer it to typing

Attached block letters are easier to read than cursive.

Anonymous wrote:Cursive is just faster - not picking up and putting down pen after every single letter… it’s just practical for people who write a lot and for whatever reason prefer it to typing

Out of 8 classes my DS is taking this year, only history requires a notebook. All other teachers say work is done on the Chromebook

I feel my older learned in 4th because that’s the covid year. But my now 3rd grader teacher says they are learning it this year. But I feel no one is using handwriting no more, it’s a dead skill other than if you want to become a historian or just show off.

Cursive is just faster - not picking up and putting down pen after every single letter… it’s just practical for people who write a lot and for whatever reason prefer it to typing

Anonymous wrote:I took all my college notes and wrote my college essays in cursive

I wrote all of my bar exam study notes in cursive and that's how I memorized it

I took all my college notes and wrote my college essays in cursive

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Anonymous wrote:No. I taught my kids cursive in elementary. I wanted to teach them shorthand to take notes in high school, but they laughed and said they take all their notes on the laptops and my shorthand is useless. I think it can be modified for typing, but they're teens and think they know everything, so...

Taking notes in shorthand is a terrible idea. Writing every word down, in shorthand or otherwise, means you aren't thinking and organizing and synthesizing.

Taking notes in class means you are memorizing at best, frantically transcribing at worst, not thinking.

Says someone who doesn’t follow neuroscience…

Writing is different from furious transcribing.

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Anonymous wrote:Arcane and obsolete skill. Keyboarding is worthwhile.

https://www.howlifeunfolds.com/learning-education/case-cursive-6-reasons-why-cursive-handwriting-good-your-brain

Nothing screams arcane and obsolete like citing a 1976 study on handwriting.

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20240122-california-signs-cursive-writing-into-law-what-are-the-brain-benefits

All this says is that writing with pen and paper is more beneficial than typing. None of the cited research says that cursive is better than printing, because it isn't. As a lefty, it was very difficult to write in cursive without smearing it and making a mess. I was so happy in college when the professors didn't care about cursive anymore.

Why are you writing from left to right? Lefties should write right to left with mirrored cursive.

I'm a righty and I can write mirror cursive lefty as neatly as righty cursive, with barely any practice y whole life.

I started teaching them before Kindergarten. Bought the cursive workbooks from India and online.

Taught them alphabets and cursive at the same time. My kids were reading and writing before they started kindergarten thanks to the Montessori school they went to.

I haven’t written anything in cursive (other than my illegible signature) since I graduated HS.

Cursive is an amazing skill to have in one’s arsenal , whether or not we believe it forges novel connections between the brain hemispheres (I do).

Schools are just lazy and don’t want to put in the work. So glad my kids got it in private K because I wouldn’t have had the patience. They’re now in public and use it for letters/cards—everyone assumes we taught them.