Why Aren't Kids Being Taught Cursive writing in School Anymore?

I don't know how long this has been happening but I do teach mine cursive since I Home School them. =)

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

Isn't it horrible when everything is written in capital letters? The argument seems to be that soon everyone will type anyway. But what if the electronic devices don't work? Then the young ones will have problems communicating with each other.

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.

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.

The kids type on the computers:(

thats sad if they have taklen cursive writing ou t of trhe schools I liked it but m y wiring not so good any more

I learned how to write cursive. Not sure how long it's been happening, but I'm pretty sure it started happening after my sister and I were in school. I think it's something that should be taught.

I dont know. It seems to be being phased out though for sure. I learned it in elemnatry school but I hear that now kids are not!

We learned how to do cursive writing in grade 1 when i was a kid.

I think it is part of the dumbing down of America. Knowledge is power. People without knowledge are easy to control. That is just my theory. I might be wrong.

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!

I think they need to teach it. I mean what about their signatures, any one can easily forge printing. Hmmm a strange development.

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!

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.

I remember having to learn it and now they don't even do it.

We're lucky schools even bother to teach kids how to spell or add 1 +1 anymore @amadeo .

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!!!

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

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. :)