Just saw a young lady the other day — she was 15. She could not SIGN HER NAME because they don’t teach cursive handwriting anymore.
Guess one day she will be unable to sign a contract to buy a home, a vehicle, or property ... or much of anything — sign her own checks, etc.
Guess they’ve probably planned it that way all along ...
Guess these kids will just make their “X.”
Pathetic.
I know my own daughter is well ahead of her peers. She was homeschooled on and off. She’s 26 now and doing extremely well for herself and is entirely independent.
Many neighbors and relatives used to mock me for homeschooling.
Thank God I stood firm.
To be fair, cursive now belongs in the history curriculum. It is no longer an everyday use skill and it has zero place in business outside of signatures.
They don't teach calligraphy anymore either, outside of some art electives. Exactly the same thing.
Thank you for posting this. I am dismayed by the number of people on this site who think that not teaching children how to write in cursive is just fine --- we don't need cursive anymore.
I personally find it really sad to think of an entire nation of so-called adults who cannot write, but can only print -- as if they never got past the second grade.
Wise up. The reason kids are no longer being taught cursive is because the teacher's union doesn't want to make their teachers do that. The teachers think it is too hard to teach. So, they come up with a lame excuse about why they can't do their jobs. My late brother was a teacher/guidance counselor for his entire career. When I was speaking to him about my eldest daughter, who had just entered the second grade in a Catholic elementary school, I told him that they were beginning to teach cursive writing. He told me that Mrs. Rhodes (my daughter's teacher) was going to be "disappointed". At the end of the school year, I had my cursive writing daughter send a note to my brother. He never responded, as it was clear that a 2nd grader could learn cursive.
I also think that training in cursive writing is probably helpful for small motor skills.