Cursive comeback Why it’s not taught in all CO schools and why teaching it may be vital

Cursive comeback Why it’s not taught in all CO schools and why teaching it may be vital

[wyvernnymph]

In our school district my class (2015) was the last of the kids to learn cursive. They literally stopped in the middle of the cursive lesson plans so I have to make up certain letters because of that if I want to write in cursive. Common core is the most ridiculous idea like why the hell is it based on our testing? It’s so disruptive to teaching our children how to support themselves.

[merlot]

Good job Vanguard. Cursive should be in all schools.

[jesseblackhawk]

My mother writes using cursive, and taught my siblings and I when we were young children long before we were taught it in the 3rd gradein 2003. I was surprised to hear that they stopped teaching it here in NY.

[sewfantastic]

Someone left a note on the supervisor desk and she didn't follow through on the problem because she said she couldn't read it. I thought maybe it was bad writing but I read it just fine. The note was important 😮😮

[carltonpiercey]

I know cursive. Idk if writing fast is writing good. I used to produce a reasonably legible signature but now im older i sign so fast that it is too distorted. Now, my stepdad used to make me redo assignment if in his judgement it was illegible. Well, the teacher kept accepting it. He tried to show me a couple proper cursive letters and my mama showed me a more streamlined mechanic that reduced some of the curly cues, feeling that would improve legibility, which it did. Later on i adopted a mixed style of the two. I had a teacher who later in the year wanted more proper form, threatening to start counting it wrong and i told him what my mama told me, which he said he didn't care but i think in the end he acquesced because after all it was clear and legible. On paper forms, you print most of it but you sign your name in cursive. I take neutral stance. I can see both sides but with technology comes many cultural shifts. Cursive however is still relevant but its importance is diminished and manuscript handwritten signatures seems acceptable today but probably wouldn't have been accepted in the old school. Yeah a doctor can do open heart surgery but not so much handwriting lol. Well the doc uses a computer. And hey, what about e signed documents, eh?

[amazingcommenter]

I'm a 40yo Asian in Asia. I never had cursive class but I can write in cursive. How else would you write fast?

[God.Of.Men.]

Cursive that's basically, hardcore mode for my hands.

[ishmael]

I recently started teaching myself how to write in cursive because I find writing in print is physically taxing & tedious. Honestly super easy to learn with all the resources online. Give it a try!

[ianpershing]

Cursive will be how we keep secrets from our Robot Overlords.

[ritzrn]

We learned to write in cursive before we learn the print way on our own. Never knew this was not taught in many places long time ago

[kevinjamesbond]

You mentioned there were three school districts that teach cursive in the article. What districts were those?

[sewfantastic]

This is why Americans are so behind, and I didn't use stupid or dumb. Its getting to the point were school are just free daycare. I tought my daughter before starting school how to count, write and read. After two weeks in preK I was asked to attend a PTA meeting in reference to moving my daughter to the 2rd grade I said no because she was only 4 but did agreed to the 1st grade.

[krystinaland]

Haha finally as parents we have a secret code. 😀

[ProximaCentauri]

It's sad that cursive writing is in decline esp. in the United States where it was first polished (Palmer and Spencerian).

[Kryptic]

They dont want kids to be able to read historical documents... Like the Constitution

[rebekamascarenhas]

To me, this is crazy. I’m brazilian and in my country, we basically only write cursive. We learn how to write cursives before we learn reading (around 4 or 5 years old).

[DaltonHBrown]

2:18 no way they are gonna take an entire day to discuss the letter "C".
Edit: I guess I was a little quick of the draw, for kindergarteners one letter is fine.

[UndeadCrabstick]

Grandma's generation learned cursive at grade 4? Bro I live in Europe and I had to know it before pre-school along with math and reading. Pretty sure they still don't allow printed handwriting in schools these days. Then again I'm a milenial so...

[ArcticPineapple]

I was taught cursive for 2 days in 3rd grade because 1kid know how to write

[idromano]

In my country, Brazil, we were alphabetised in cursive. But that was in the 90ies, IDK about kids nowadays.