Cursive is a skill that will take a period of school a day, for several years to develop. The time and place for that is during the development of penmanship, grades 2-5.
Is this what we want kids spending that time learning in today’s society? Mind you, the age of cursive as a practical, daily application has passed.
I agree that cursive holds considerable retrospective value. Does that value equal the intensity of learning for all children at that age? What’s the opportunity cost? What aren’t we teaching as a result that might have far more practical applications in the 21st century world?
The original post was phrased as a question of school board priority. Is this truly where the learning priorities of our elementary children should be vested today? Learning a style of writing that few will adopt and most will not even see in use in any practical form in their daily lives?
Is this what we want kids spending that time learning in today’s society? Mind you, the age of cursive as a practical, daily application has passed.
At least they won’t be propagandized during this lesson, unless of course they have to write quotes from Mein Kampf.
I think I understand your position, just wonder if we have to dump reading writing and arithmetic to be progressive in education.
I’m 33 and my cursive is pretty good...when I sign my name cause that’s about the only time I use it. That and sometimes a birthday card. Now while agree kids should learn to read cursive, transcribing a few historical documents should teach that, longer documents which were the mainstay of cursive use are exclusively typed now. Kids should be taught typing instead from a young age.
Now that time is taken up by pro-homosexual, anti-bullying indoctrination.