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Legislation would require cursive writing in schools
Sierra Vista Herald ^ | Howard Fischer, Capitol Media Services

Posted on 03/26/2016 1:26:32 PM PDT by SandRat

PHOENIX — Insisting it's good from everything from civics to brain development, state lawmakers want to require students to know how to read and write in cursive.

Legislation on the desk of Gov. Doug Ducey would mandate that schools include cursive reading and writing in their curriculum. Specifically, students would have to show by the end of fifth grade they are "able to create readable documents through legible cursive handwriting.''

But, unlike a requirement that students know how to read by the end of the third grade, there is nothing in the law that says students who can't display that skill don't get to go on to sixth grade.

(Excerpt) Read more at svherald.com ...


TOPICS: Education; Local News; Society
KEYWORDS: arizona; chickenscratch; cursive; handwriting; learningtoscrawl; phoenix; racheljeantel; writing
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1 posted on 03/26/2016 1:26:32 PM PDT by SandRat
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They have stopped teaching cursive writting here in Connecticut.

I have asked individual teachers how the future wage earners will be able to sign forms, checks, tax forms,etc.

I was told to teach them cursive writting on my own.


2 posted on 03/26/2016 1:32:49 PM PDT by kidd
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We learned cursive in second grade. By mid year, we had mastered it. Not a big deal.

Please don't tell me my great grandchildren will never be able to read the diaries I wrote when I was watching my grandchildren.

3 posted on 03/26/2016 1:33:14 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: SandRat

The sound of wet grass.

OTOH, Steve Jobs said he took a calligraphy course that he thought was highly influential on his career.


4 posted on 03/26/2016 1:38:31 PM PDT by Moonman62 (Make America Great Again!)
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To: Sacajaweau

I recently saw some envelopes from the 1800’s. The handwriting was a work of art.


5 posted on 03/26/2016 1:39:37 PM PDT by Moonman62 (Make America Great Again!)
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To: Moonman62

Quote from Socrates: “Handwriting reflects the architecture of the brain.”

While attending college, I noticed while studying that my notes were illegible. So I took a calligraphy class, fell in love with the art, and have been writing legibly since age 20.


6 posted on 03/26/2016 1:41:37 PM PDT by SatinDoll (A NATURAL BORN CITIZEN IS BORN IN THE USA OF TWO USA CITIZENS)
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To: Sacajaweau
Not unless we taught them how.

That's outside of ODummies common education program.

7 posted on 03/26/2016 1:42:34 PM PDT by SandRat (Duty - Honor - Country! What else needs said?)
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Have the teachers started SCREAMING yet...as they always do when politicians try to block their dumbing down of America.


8 posted on 03/26/2016 1:42:37 PM PDT by BobL (A vote for Cruz...is now a vote for Romney / Jeb / Linda / Ryan (at the convention))
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To: SandRat

"Cursive?" "Dat be racist!"

9 posted on 03/26/2016 1:44:18 PM PDT by PROCON
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To: SandRat

In before the “That’s racist” choir sings.


10 posted on 03/26/2016 1:44:31 PM PDT by BipolarBob
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To: PROCON

I wasn’t quick enough.


11 posted on 03/26/2016 1:45:13 PM PDT by BipolarBob
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To: BobL
I'll let you know after I Tell my Daughter (Elementary Teacher an hear her response). (She's supposed to be here this weekend)
12 posted on 03/26/2016 1:47:32 PM PDT by SandRat (Duty - Honor - Country! What else needs said?)
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I tend to the opinion that learning cursive writing helps develop hand/eye/brain coordination, which can be valuable in ways not necessarily fore-seeable, but useful and desirable nonetheless.


13 posted on 03/26/2016 1:48:26 PM PDT by Elsiejay (qeustion of qualificatioin)
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To: kidd

My son learns cursive handwriting by copying the Declaration of Independence every morning. Pulled him out after last year. I am teaching him math from a teacher’s math guide book and he is advancing academically so much more.


14 posted on 03/26/2016 1:48:57 PM PDT by magna carta
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To: Sacajaweau
We learned cursive in second grade. By mid year, we had mastered it. Not a big deal.

Please don't tell me my great grandchildren will never be able to read the diaries I wrote when I was watching my grandchildren.


Yep. This is how we are creating a generation that can't even sign checks on the back, let alone the front.
15 posted on 03/26/2016 1:51:57 PM PDT by PA Engineer (Liberate America from the Occupation Media. #2ndAmendmentMatters)
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To: SandRat

Dat’s retartit.


16 posted on 03/26/2016 1:53:49 PM PDT by Organic Panic
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To: Elsiejay
Not according to ODummy and his flying Monkeys.
17 posted on 03/26/2016 1:55:15 PM PDT by SandRat (Duty - Honor - Country! What else needs said?)
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To: SandRat

Oh, dear.

Sure, I learned cursive in school. Then I went to France for a year as an exchange student, and found out that American cursive is so different from French cursive that no one could read what I wrote if I wrote in cursive.

Prior to going to France, I alternated between printing and cursive about evenly. After going to France, I lost whatever cursive skills I had. To this day, decades later, I cannot fluidly write cursive.

I never could read cursive all that well, either.

Except for signing one’s name, there is no real need to write in cursive. Printing works just fine.


18 posted on 03/26/2016 1:55:15 PM PDT by exDemMom (Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org/)
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To: PROCON

ah yes, the girl who can’t read cursive.

Sounds like a good idea to mandate that schools teach cursive.

So then otherwise, students will know how to print and do text messages. Great. (sarcasm)

The whole text message/twitter thing is frustrating too, the idea that everything written is abbreviated or has to consist of 140 or fewer characters. Kids today are learning to communicate in this shorthand, and it’s seeping into formal written communications in the business world too.


19 posted on 03/26/2016 1:56:12 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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I’ll trade no cursive for no islam in schools.


20 posted on 03/26/2016 1:57:20 PM PDT by Vince Ferrer
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