Community Chat

[wildcat fan]

On 4/20/2014 biancardi said:

On 4/19/2014 MomOf4 said:

On 4/19/2014 wildcat fan said:

From what I understand, there are no cursive handwriting standards in Common Core. Some states are modifying to add cursive in elementary grades while other states are leaving Common Core in tact. So sad to see middle/high school students who print their names when asked for a signature because they don't know how to write their names in cursive!

I completely agree with you about dropping cursive. How are people going to sign legal papers if everyone can only print their names?

printing is acceptable on legal documents. My signature is almost a print as my cursive is unreadable.

Besides, digital (electronic) signatures will be the future.

Although print and digital signatures are acceptable, I still think it's sad that most of my students can't read or write cursive. Those who know cursive were taught by a family member or attended an elementary school outside of our district. Since cursive has been dropped from the curriculum, you'd think there would be something gained, but local standardized test scores don't reflect that students have benefited in any other way by dropping cursive.