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Texas schools plan to bring cursive back to classrooms
kxan ^ | April 5, 2019 | Chris Davis

Posted on 04/05/2019 1:34:00 PM PDT by bgill

Cursive writing has fallen away from the curriculum in a lot of Texas schools in recent years, but the writing style is making a comeback. Austin ISD does not teach cursive to its general student body, but the district says that will change in the 2019-2020 school year, as it will for schools all over the state. The shift is due to updates to the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills, or TEKS, for language arts. The State Board of Education changed the requirements in 2017, and they go into effect next school year. Starting this fall, students will be required to know how to write legibly in cursive by 5th grade. Kids will start learning cursive letters in 2nd grade. But even the districts that cut cursive classes have kept teaching it to students with dyslexia. Manor ISD's dyslexia coordinator says it stimulates brain function, helps with memory, and allows students to focus on whole words instead of individual letters.

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KEYWORDS: anachronism; cursivewriting; obsolescence
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To: minnesota_bound

The sentence above was really hard to write using the computer mouse....


41 posted on 04/05/2019 3:03:47 PM PDT by minnesota_bound (My sister said the only thing that did not was the clock. GE has spare parts)
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To: bgill

Wow, they’re actually going to teach usable skills. Progressive liberals should be outraged.


42 posted on 04/05/2019 3:14:47 PM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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To: Buckeye McFrog

California did sight reading for 20 years before they figured out that most of their graduating seniors were functionally illiterate.

Now we have a socialist education system. Math and History are toast. I suspect pretty much all of it is too.

Was recently taking to a retired teacher who tutors now. He said the textbook , which were always highly scrutinized and edited are being replaced iodic internet printouts, that appear to come from the Feds.

My kids missed most of this nonsense but were still homeschooled afterschool in History and Math. (The word at the time was” You don’t have a memorize you math tables... I thought BULLHOCKEY!! Learning to memorize is a big chunk of education!!)

Have a friend who is an E.R, doc that works at medical school. Students are constantly googling on their phones when she asks them questions!!!!

Idiocracy is here.


43 posted on 04/05/2019 3:17:03 PM PDT by lizma2
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To: bgill; antidemoncrat
Perhaps you can hire analog clock interpreters.

I’m available twice a day ;-]

44 posted on 04/05/2019 3:20:32 PM PDT by broken_clock (Go Trump!)
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To: bgill

Kids will finally learn how to make a signature. :D


45 posted on 04/05/2019 3:29:59 PM PDT by EdnaMode
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To: Buckeye McFrog

It’s like driving a stick shift car. You don’t know when you’ll need it but so glad you know.


46 posted on 04/05/2019 3:40:12 PM PDT by cnsmom
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To: bgill

Learning cursive was wasted on me. I can just barely read my own stuff ... printing isn’t much better. And the ‘keys’ on my cell phone ‘keyboard’ are so small, writing is a case of back spacing and repeating ad infinitum. If Dorothy Parker were alive today, she’d say something caustic about it, I bet.


47 posted on 04/05/2019 3:49:43 PM PDT by sparklite2 (Don't mind me. I'm just a contrarian.)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

People need to be able to function in situations where they don’t have electricity or internet access.


So you’d require slide rule classes?


48 posted on 04/05/2019 3:51:21 PM PDT by sparklite2 (Don't mind me. I'm just a contrarian.)
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To: Telepathic Intruder

I always thought teaching cursive at a young age aided hand eye coordination, focus, and concentration. I am 67 and can write in cursive but due to a lot of board drafting when younger my usual writing is a combination of lettering and cursive. If I am taking notes I might have 3 different e styles in a word like Beersheba.


49 posted on 04/05/2019 3:54:15 PM PDT by bravo whiskey (Never bring a liberal gun law to a gun fight.)
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To: unlearner

You had me for a while there.


50 posted on 04/05/2019 4:01:34 PM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: bravo whiskey

I used to get complements on my handwriting. I studied and practiced calligraphy as well. Computers have ruined it. I can type pretty well, but no one compliments me on my handwriting anymore. It looks pretty bad to me, too.


51 posted on 04/05/2019 4:16:12 PM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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To: Responsibility2nd

When I retired I enrolled in the Community College to study art.

Youth **need*** to be taught how to **hold** a stylus or writing instrument properly.

There are many jobs where workers need to use a stylus, pencil, or pen. Watching the young adults in my classes with their cramped and white knuckled grips on their pens and computer drawing instruments is painful to watch.

I predict that soon we will see adults of younger and younger ages with damaged hand tendons.


52 posted on 04/05/2019 4:18:29 PM PDT by wintertime (Stop treating government teachers like they are reincarnated Mother Teresas!)
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To: unlearner
Definitely for the children! :-)
53 posted on 04/05/2019 4:20:20 PM PDT by wintertime (Stop treating government teachers like they are reincarnated Mother Teresas!)
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To: LeoTDB69

Cursive fonts have been available for PCs since the early 1980’s. The keyboard does not need to be changed. It will just generate cursive characters. Like changing the ball on an IBM selectric to cursive characters.

Free Cursive font:

https://www.fontspace.com/category/cursive


54 posted on 04/05/2019 4:30:57 PM PDT by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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To: LeoTDB69

I’m even old enough to remember typewriter’s with cursive characters on it. Yes, before PC.

Keyboard was still block letters.


55 posted on 04/05/2019 4:32:26 PM PDT by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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To: Revel

spanish cursive fonts

https://www.1001fonts.com/spanish+cursive-fonts.html

But if you ask me, it looks like standard cursive.

Spanish has accent marks that we don’t use. That would be something special.


56 posted on 04/05/2019 4:34:50 PM PDT by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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To: bgill

I’ve been wondering how they expected people to be able to sign their names in their own unique hand writing ... figured it was so anybody could forge anybody else’s name. You know in the interest of anything goes, low standards etc. that is so prevalent now.

Won’t be long before the teachers unions, educational depts label this effort as raciss.


57 posted on 04/05/2019 4:37:44 PM PDT by Let's Roll ("You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality" -- Ayn Rand)
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To: Trump Girl Kit Cat
If these kids don’t know cursive writing how in the hell do they have a signature!

Most don't have what you and I would consider a signature. They all have a mark of some sort, which is technically a signature, but it's a far cry from their parents and grandparents handwriting.

It's very sad.

58 posted on 04/05/2019 4:43:34 PM PDT by Windflier (Pitchforks and torches ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
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To: bgill

59 posted on 04/05/2019 4:57:45 PM PDT by mikrofon (Weekend BUMP)
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To: mikrofon; Gamecock; SaveFerris; PROCON

Lemon? Or Lebaron? Ah, same thing.


60 posted on 04/05/2019 5:15:14 PM PDT by Larry Lucido
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