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[Q4u]

It definitely should be taught..... there is no pride in not learning something that has been essential even if technology may define something as obsolute.  While it may look that way today.... it may reverse itself down the road and then what?  We'll have a generation or two that is ignorant of cursive.

What is next? We already have revisionist history in schools~!   And that's shameful enough...... 

[jaxs mom]

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@Starpolisher wrote:

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@Mellie32 wrote:

Almost everything we read now is typed.  Almost everything the younger generation writes is typed.  It doesn't make sense for teachers to spend 30 minutes a day teaching cursive handwriting.  It DOES make sense for teachers to spend that time teaching keyboarding skills.  

Sincerely,

A teacher

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As a parent, grandparent and former teacher,  I disagree with not teaching cursive.(They should at least be able to write their signature) However, perhaps you are right because it seems this younger generation has no use for sending out hand written anything, especially Thank You notes!

Recipeholic - hope your grandson had a  very happy birthday!

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handwriting something doesn't require cursive. 

[RedTop]

My oldest daughter is a high school Special Education teacher.   She teaches all of her students to write in cursive, teaches all of her students to tell time with a real clock, and teaches all of her students to count money and make change.   

[jubilant]

There was a post about house fires the other day.  One of the posters mentioned that she would want to save her grandmothers handwritten recipes.....or that she would really miss them if she didn't have them.

Anyway.... reading this post made me think.....some of these kids will not be  able to read their grandma's recipes.  Maybe we should all start printing them!

[alliswell]

Starting school in the 50's, I learned cursive too, but I'm unable to figure out my doctor's handwriting or many other variations of cursive handwriting for that matter.  Rather than cursive, I think we all should have been taught to "print."  It may have saved a lot of guessing.   lol  

[Mellie32]

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@occasionalrain wrote:

Keyboarding skills are easily learned but won't mean what a hand written thank you note will. Although, it may provide future jobs for translators.

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No, keyboarding skills aren't easily learned.  It takes daily practice for a long period of time.  

There will be no need of translators because my generation and younger rarely ever write in cursive anyway.  The older generation's customs are becoming obsolete...it happens every generation. When my generation is 60+, we'll probably be complaining that no one emails anymore.   

[motherinlaw]

Every legal document requires a signature....in cursive. Are we going back to the days when an "X" will do?  This is not progress.

[Mellie32]

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@RedTop wrote:

My oldest daughter is a high school Special Education teacher.   She teaches all of her students to write in cursive, teaches all of her students to tell time with a real clock, and teaches all of her students to count money and make change.   

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I don't know of any math curriculum that doesn't require kids to learn how to read an analog clock or count money and make change.  It's cursive that is becoming obsolete, not the other things.

[hopi]

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@Mellie32 wrote:

Almost everything we read now is typed.  Almost everything the younger generation writes is typed.  It doesn't make sense for teachers to spend 30 minutes a day teaching cursive handwriting.  It DOES make sense for teachers to spend that time teaching keyboarding skills.  

Sincerely,

A teacher

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.....and if the system breaks down no one will be able to communicate.

Sincerely

An Educator

[jaxs mom]

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@jubilant wrote:

There was a post about house fires the other day.  One of the posters mentioned that she would want to save her grandmothers handwritten recipes.....or that she would really miss them if she didn't have them.

Anyway.... reading this post made me think.....some of these kids will not be  able to read their grandma's recipes.  Maybe we should all start printing them!

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My moms recipes were written in print not cursive. Now days, she just emails them to me LOL. My mom knows how to use a computer and my grandmother is blind so she doesn't write.