Why Aren't Kids Being Taught Cursive writing in School Anymore?
@amadeo (111938)
United States
November 16, 2016 3:07pm CST
A while back I ask here if anyone still write letters.
Then I totally forgot that many school do not use Cursive writing any more.
How long has this been going on.Out of touch.
My own children did not learn this.They mostly print and now writing.
Why did they take this away.Cursive writing is wonderful and there is something about the language in it self.
I love cursive writing and this was my best subject in school.
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36 responses
@LovingMyBabies (85288)
• Valdosta, Georgia
16 Nov 16
I don't know how long this has been happening but I do teach mine cursive since I Home School them. =)
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@LovingMyBabies (85288)
• Valdosta, Georgia
16 Nov 16
@Marilynda1225 Oh yes. I don't understand why schools don't teach it anymore.
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@amadeo (111938)
• United States
16 Nov 16
@LovingMyBabies are you teaching your children in t his?
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@Marilynda1225 (82789)
• United States
16 Nov 16
It's so nice to hear that you include cursive writing in your homeschooling curriculum
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@Marilynda1225 (82789)
• United States
16 Nov 16
I have no idea why schools stopped teaching cursive writing. Back in my day we took pride in our penmanship. All my grandkids print everything & it seems weird for teenagers to still be printing everything. I wonder as they get older how they will be able to sign important documents later in life
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@amadeo (111938)
• United States
16 Nov 16
@Marilynda1225 not sure about that.I loved penmanship.
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@fishtiger58 (29820)
• Momence, Illinois
17 Nov 16
I wonder this exact thing, won't they need to know how to sign their signatures?
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@DianneN (247186)
• United States
16 Nov 16
They are, but only in third grade. They are taught how to make each letter. If they want to learn, they have to practice at home. Most writing is now done on computers and iPads. Cursive writing lessons take up too much time in an already loaded curriculum.
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@DianneN (247186)
• United States
17 Nov 16
@fishtiger58 They can learn that at home, too. Most kids love to practice their name in cursive in school and at home!
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@fishtiger58 (29820)
• Momence, Illinois
17 Nov 16
What about signatures don't the young need to learn at least their signatures?
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@AutumnSnow (4583)
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16 Nov 16
Since I started home schooling my kids this is something that we've been working on. I was very upset when I found out that my two older girls did not know how to even read cursive let alone write. This is the first thing we started working on.
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@amadeo (111938)
• United States
16 Nov 16
@AutumnSnow Good for you.Keep us update on this.I love to hear more
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@Poppylicious (11133)
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16 Nov 16
We don't write in cursive over here. We learn joined up handwriting instead. When I could show how good I was at joined up handwriting I was given the gift of a fountain pen from the school. It was a most magical moment for a seven year old me. I don't know if they're still taught it - and given rewards - but the students at work have appalling handwriting for the most part. It's all that silly technology. I love cursive ... it's so quintessentially American!
@Poppylicious (11133)
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17 Nov 16
@paigea They don't look the same. American cursive shapes its letters differently. If we think of cursive here, we just think of American handwriting, not joined up handwriting as we know it. It's actually really interesting that handwriting styles are different according to country and place of origin. I like the French and Polish styles. They look so pretty to me.
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@paigea (36317)
• Canada
17 Nov 16
@Poppylicious what is the difference between cursive and joined up handwriting?
@paigea (36317)
• Canada
17 Nov 16
Some cursive is still taught here. Years ago I started saying, - they keep adding and adding to what they expect us to do at school. Something had to go to make time for all that gets added and added. So, cursive is one of the things getting pushed out. Some people will learn, just because they like to.
I remember learning cursive in grade 3 with a fountain pen! I remember all the practicing and practicing. I never got good at it, and I never learned to print neatly either. I embraced word processing as soon as it became available!!!
@fishtiger58 (29820)
• Momence, Illinois
17 Nov 16
I think they need to teach it. I mean what about their signatures, any one can easily forge printing. Hmmm a strange development.
@amadeo (111938)
• United States
17 Nov 16
@fishtiger58 yes,hopefully they know about this.
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@Gita17112016 (3611)
• Trinidad And Tobago
17 Nov 16
The price of technology and computers. Cursive writing is a lost or dying art form. We use to have such great sense of pride in our penmanship. Now, it's sip out your phone and punch or touch in letters that has abbreviated the English language until it has become mangled. Hah! Progress we say!
@kumbarn14 (735)
• Pakistan
17 Nov 16
We had a period for Cursive writing in the convent and we were supposed to do our school work in this writing if not our writing books would be returned for rewriting. Time to come there will be no paper only machines will be carried by students. No hand writing whatsoever. Already children don't have to use their brains instead of which IT will guide them. It is going to become a disaster for the human brains and skills.
@carebear29 (31968)
• Wausau, Wisconsin
16 Nov 16
I remember having to learn it and now they don't even do it.
@amadeo (111938)
• United States
16 Nov 16
@carebear29 yes,it is very sad.All they do is print or scribble.
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@nanette64 (20364)
• Fairfield, Texas
17 Nov 16
We're lucky schools even bother to teach kids how to spell or add 1 +1 anymore @amadeo .
@amadeo (111938)
• United States
17 Nov 16
@nanette64 I guess.This is happening all over
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@neersha (248)
• Delhi, India
17 Nov 16
No in India children are taught cursive writing since kg class and then its continuous up to second class in school. it makes a child write efficiently and fast with good handwriting
@kevinhomealone (51)
• Plymouth, England
17 Nov 16
Time have changed so much so that I have a nephew 3 years old and boy he is ever so good playing games on tablet, cell, computers. But his mum also makes sure he has crayons to draw etc. I also have a nephew 17 and spends so much time on computers. So my answer that cursive could be going out.....hope I am wrong.
@beebibi (1)
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17 Nov 16
Many fail to recognize the value of cursive. In a student's life its important.
Cursive not only has a creative front but also technically improves a child's performance.
Cursive has the added benefit of being both artistic and highly personal.
When students write confidently and legibly, their academics as a whole seem to improve.
Cursive writing should definitely continue to be a part of school curricular. :)