No more cursive writing?

I was just reading that some schools are no longer teaching cursive - I don’t have kids - is that true??

Since I was able to read I’ve been typing. My mother gave me her old manual typewriter when I was 7 and I would write all of my letters to my best friend in red ink (yes red ink - it made it fun). For this reason my handwriting has never been that great - but once I started college and no longer had to write anything - my handwriting has begun to look a lot like scribble … but can they really stop teaching kids cursive??

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4 Responses to “No more cursive writing?”


  1. elfie Says:

    I’ve heard that, too. I’ve also heard of kids using internet slang in English papers, meaning that all correct spelling is going directly out the window. heh.

    I wonder what the English language is going to look like in twenty years…

  2. elfie Says:

    I’ve heard that, too. I’ve also heard of kids using internet slang in English papers, meaning that all correct spelling is going directly out the window. heh.

    I wonder what the English language is going to look like in twenty years…

  3. spaz68 Says:

    Tennessee schools still teach cursive, my 3rd grader is so excited by cursive she writes more legibly cursive than she does printing. She’s still a hunt & pack typist, though - I think she’s learning my leftindexfinger and right thumbplusfirsttwofinger typing style.

  4. spaz68 Says:

    Tennessee schools still teach cursive, my 3rd grader is so excited by cursive she writes more legibly cursive than she does printing. She\’s still a hunt & pack typist, though - I think she\’s learning my leftindexfinger and right thumbplusfirsttwofinger typing style.

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