Texas is Bringing Cursive Back to Schools
Southern Living,
by
Meghan Overdeep
Original Article
Posted By: JoniTx,
4/12/2019 8:38:50 PM
There was a time when every American student was expected to learn how to write in cursive. It’s a skill that’s fallen out of favor in recent decades, but one Southern state is looking to bring it back.Texas has announced its plan to reintroduce cursive writing to the state curriculum for elementary students beginning in the 2019-2020 school year.According to the updated Texas Education Code, second graders will learn how to write cursive letters, and third graders will be expected to "write complete words, thoughts, and answers legibly in cursive writing leaving appropriate spaces between words.” By the time they
I can´t imagine not knowing how to write in cursive, although my handwriting is a poor scribble compared to the elegant lettering of my Grandmother.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Tusker 4/12/2019 9:04:13 PM (No. 32157)
Way overdue!
Generations of adults signing documents with X’s And scribbles coming to an end...at least in Texas.
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If they could dumb down the population enough, maybe no one would be able to read the Constitution.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
InvestiGator 4/12/2019 9:21:16 PM (No. 32151)
Return phonics also. We are rearing an age nine grandchild. Common Core teaching techniques for reading and arithmetic are the debil.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Wendybird 4/12/2019 9:34:12 PM (No. 32148)
Send the teachers and education rule makers and politicians back to learn it also. As well as a little Old Math.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
ilovedogs 4/12/2019 9:50:31 PM (No. 32146)
Honestly I don´t see the point. Printing is fine. All documents, etc are biometric anyway. I say let it go the way of the dodo.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
daisey 4/12/2019 9:52:50 PM (No. 32145)
True story...not too long ago we hired a young surgical tech, 24 years old. She asked me to write out some instructions for her. When I started writing, she stopped me and told me she couldn’t read cursive. I thought she was joking. (I’m a 72 year old nurse). She was serious.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
thebeez 4/12/2019 10:05:59 PM (No. 32139)
I would rather they start teaching American History again.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
PlayItAgain 4/12/2019 10:16:12 PM (No. 32161)
Writing in cursive develops hand eye coordination and other brain functions. This is particularly true in young children.
As ask adult I print and write in cursive. It´s a great skill to have.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
ginadee 4/12/2019 10:32:58 PM (No. 32147)
I can´t believe the schools ceased teaching cursive. America History is a necessary
study to clearly understand the present day happenings that will someday be in history books.
Civics, American Government, Economics, English along with Creative Writing, these are all so important.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
LadyHen 4/12/2019 11:02:07 PM (No. 32164)
We were so serious about it we used three separate cursive writing curriculum in our now teen son´s homeschooling over the years. He knows how to do it and can read it fine but his handwriting is still chicken scratch, God love his heart. He prefers printing. I´ve learned to deal with it. My husband is the same way. Maybe it is genetic :p
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
hurricanegirl 4/12/2019 11:17:39 PM (No. 32140)
When I give kids cards nowadays, I no longer write out my messages in cursive because, quite simply, they make themselves look like idiots when they try to read it and can´t.
Pathetic!
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
dovestar 4/12/2019 11:20:10 PM (No. 32156)
It´s a sexual difference, LadyHen. For some reason females develop the hand-eye coordination earlier than males so boys have a harder time learning it, and hence, are more comfortable with printing.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Fosterdad 4/12/2019 11:21:01 PM (No. 32141)
I have twins in the 2nd grade and they´re learning cursive. Of course, it´s Catholic school which might explain it.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
anonymous 4/12/2019 11:22:18 PM (No. 32162)
As a young high-school student, I would write in cursive at a forward angle of about 30 degrees. When I look at my writing from then, I´m amazed as to how nice and artistic it looked. I don´t think I could reproduce that particular slant today without harming my elbow.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
thewarden 4/12/2019 11:27:24 PM (No. 32142)
I know a couple of Irish nuns who could help...they retired and moved back to the order in Ireland. Best teachers ever.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
NYbob 4/12/2019 11:40:58 PM (No. 32155)
Excellent. For the grown up who doesn´t ´see the point,´ maybe a little research would help. There are many, many, articles with case studies on the value of writing cursive vs typing or printing. They are all over the biometric interweb, but why do that when you can snark dodo? One example-
https://www.webmd.com/parenting/features/handwriting-matters-kids#1
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Shells 4/13/2019 12:32:10 AM (No. 32163)
My siblings and I recently found childhood school workbooks and noticed that our cursive handwriting hasn’t changed much. They’re really is something to graphology - it’s a window into the psyche.
If anything, keep teaching it so we can spot the nuts early on.
PS, I think 16 and I were separated at birth.
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I learned the Palmer Method. Most of us don´t think about younger people not knowing how to read it, but recently I made a small sign using cursive and a young man said he couldn´t read it. He was in the military. Surprising.
Some years back, a clerk who has worked at the local post office for years, said "What does it say?" Doesn´t matter because I have five plus four on the zip code.
Cursive sets you apart as intelligent.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
DVC 4/13/2019 3:48:11 AM (No. 32150)
It is really sad how far down they have dumbed the kids. Pathetic. Current college education outside of engineering and other technical stuff is about like 8th grade was in the 1920s.
Current HS grades in some school systems, unless they take a bunch of AP courses, is about like 5th grade in the 50s.
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I´m old enough to remember being taught cursive in school (in first grade, right after we mastered printing), and having our penmanship count as part of our grade on every english, history, geography and spelling final. The nuns were hard taskmasters!
#4, I agree about phonics. It´s the only way to truly teach reading.
Children in our family weren´t extensively taught cursive, but they asked to learn it at home, so we taught them. They were thrilled to be doing something "grownup."
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
Catherine 4/13/2019 4:13:31 AM (No. 32143)
Hundreds of years of learning cursive and for whatever reason it was no longer taught?? Why? I imagine it might have to do with keyboards and printing but I was shocked to learn kids were not being taught it. Same with American History. Thank goodness I´m not raising kids today. I´d probably have to home school.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
StormCnter 4/13/2019 7:35:59 AM (No. 32165)
I did genealogy research for many years and anyone interested in old legal documents and letters must be able to read cursive. Hand entries were not printed in the days before typewriters.
My 17-year-old granddaughters cannot read my grocery lists.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
privateer 4/13/2019 8:09:12 AM (No. 32158)
In England it is known as "joined-up" writing, and the theory was it is swifter than writing individual letters. Modern children are even losing the skill of typing. They are reduced two "two thumb hunt and peck". All part of dumbing down the proletariat for the coming feudal society.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
F15 Gork 4/13/2019 8:43:56 AM (No. 32144)
Signing your name with something other than an “X” will be viewed as racist.
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And how ´bout a required course in the Constitution, in grade school and in high school?
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
DVC 4/14/2019 2:26:10 PM (No. 32152)
#7, I would have laughed at her and said, "well, you better learn."
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