Is Cursive still taught in School? (county, catholic school, class, area)

[randomparent]

Keyboarding for note-taking is inefficient and impossible in some settings. For many, many people, cursive is faster than printing. Today's cursive is not the Palmer method your grandparents learned, although Palmer is lovely to write and read. It's more of a connected print, and I think it's a very good thing for children to learn and practice.

[Pfalz]

Originally Posted by NJBest

In addition to what has been mentioned above; an American should be able to read the constitution.The digital world is fully capable of cursive.

I have read it. Cursive was not required. The real issue is every American should be able to live in a place where it is honored.

[AmandaNerdBot]

It should still be taught in school, if you ask me. It is important to teach children calligraphy.

[Gilah G.]

No.
My daughter is in 5th grade, and she said they spent 1 week on it in 4th grade.
She learned cursive/handwriting at home with me.

[sonderella]

It's a state law where I live (NC) that cursive is taught to all third graders.

My child learned it in the last few weeks of third grade, after they were done with all the high-stakes standardized testing. I was somewhat surprised at how quickly she picked it up, and how nice it looks. Her penmanship for using standard printing is not that great, but her cursive is lovely. It's almost perfect - like something you'd see in a book that teaches cursive.

When I was a kid, we learned it in 2nd grade and I remember it being a year-long struggle. Maybe waiting a little later to introduce it was helpful in speeding up the learning process.

[flyingcat2k]

It's not taught in Oklahoma schools, or at least the ones my step-kids attended. They are learning it at home but now as teenagers. Its a struggle as our daughter insists on keeping with her printing habit when we don't specify her writing to be in cursive.

[HappyTexan]

If there is time after the state tests then it could be taught.
Keyboarding now gets more focus and time over learning cursive though.

[MaryAguila]

If they don't teach it, they should. Has anyone thought of designing an app to teach cursive writing?

[simbared]

I haven't read all of the posts so this may have already been mentioned, but it was also referred to as Longhand when I was in school. I started printing everything around 4th Grade and none of my teachers had a problem with it (this was in the 60's).

When I took the GMAT in the 70's I had to write out a statement in cursive/longhand. That took forever, and I felt like I was back in 2nd Grade, carefully forming each letter.

[lhpartridge]

We start school Monday. My returning students will be expected to write in cursive from Day 1. The incoming students will be introduced to it in several weeks, after they get the routine of the class. After a couple of years, the students are proud of their adult handwriting. Some never get it, but that's ok too, as long as they try.