Anonymous wrote:Cursive is a sign of unearned white privilege.

Please just stop

Anonymous wrote:Where is it still being taught?

St Pats starting in 2nd grade!

I only write in cursive. Block printing takes too much time and looks sloppy.

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Anonymous wrote:I learned the Palmer method as a kid and my handwriting as an adult is a mix of print and cursive.

Could not care less about whether our kids learn cursive or not. Currently it is a great way to keep things secret from them.

I have a small business and I would not hire anyone who cannot read or write in cursive. That's Like learning to only count to 25. Your children are not educated without this skill

OK Bob

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Anonymous wrote:I learned the Palmer method as a kid and my handwriting as an adult is a mix of print and cursive.

Could not care less about whether our kids learn cursive or not. Currently it is a great way to keep things secret from them.

I have a small business and I would not hire anyone who cannot read or write in cursive. That's Like learning to only count to 25. Your children are not educated without this skill

That's hardly equivalent. Cursive is closer to Roman numerals.

Anonymous wrote:I learned the Palmer method as a kid and my handwriting as an adult is a mix of print and cursive.

Could not care less about whether our kids learn cursive or not. Currently it is a great way to keep things secret from them.

I have a small business and I would not hire anyone who cannot read or write in cursive. That's Like learning to only count to 25. Your children are not educated without this skill

Anonymous wrote:I'm sad this isn't being taught anymore. I was taught to write in cursive and still do...it's so flowy and neat even if you're taking dictation! DD isn't interested in her penmanship because typing skills are all she needs, but I'm sad to see this fade away except as a hobby for some people.

Cursive writing is very important.

https://www.columbiamissourian.com/opinion/guest_commentaries/teaching-cursive-writing-helps-improve-brain-development-should-be-required-in-schools/article_f7f99778-8dba-11eb-a293-33c101879bdd.html#:~:text=Cursive%20handwriting%20stimulates%20brain%20synapses,absent%20from%20printing%20and%20typing.

My children were all taught cursive. I have a friend whose children cannot write or read cursive. Sad, isn't it?

I learned the Palmer method as a kid and my handwriting as an adult is a mix of print and cursive.

Could not care less about whether our kids learn cursive or not. Currently it is a great way to keep things secret from them.

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Anonymous wrote:All three of my kids learned cursive in their FCPS elementary school.

Recently?

They are now in 7th and 9th grade. They learned in 3rd grade during a unit in their elementary school. They all used it off and on throughout elementary school, and I know at least several of their classmates did too.

Cursive's time has gone. More power to the people who want to learn it, but it shouldn't be mandatory in schools anymore -- there is just so much to learn and too few hours in the day.

The motor skills and memory benefits are more or less the same with printing. My kids spent more time learning cursive than keyboarding which is insanity.

So, I'd say, teach them to print. Give them a crash course in maybe a couple of things about cursive - teach them how to sign their name and read it, but don't knock yourself out teaching them to write it. Then make sure they all have proper typing classes.

Cursive is a sign of unearned white privilege.

DH and I are millennials and we both write in a cursive-print hybrid. He thinks his is full cursive, but I say it’s not very pretty or legible!

My kids’ K-8 Christian in NoVa teaches cursive. They start recognition in 1st grade, writing it in 3rd.

Anonymous wrote:I write cursive when I want my writing to be kept secret from my kids.

this made me giggle

I just wish typing translated into better retention and learning like cursive or printing. That is the gap that needs overcoming if we continue to give handwriting the heave-ho.

I don’t know how anyone could confirm my identity with my signature these days. Writing with a pen or pencil on paper is totally different than on those stupid screens everywhere. They aren’t positioned correctly or they are to small for art it long names on slippery surfaces.