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Posted on 03/09/2026 6:28:07 PM PDT by big truck
PENNSYLVANIA - Starting next month, all public and private schools in Pennsylvania will be required to reintroduce cursive handwriting into their curriculum.
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“Well....I know damn, and hell.....”
My grandad learned cursive in the second grade.
After reading some of these replies: Folks, don’t give up on writing by hand! I started a few years ago trying to keep handwritten notes and it was NOT EASY (I’m old). Recently I discovered “Zettel Kessen” a note-keeping system. This is a new wrinkle.
Try to write in cursive and don’t stop trying! It will give your brain and your fingers a workout that you need. (Also, it’s useful if someone is trying to see what you’re writing - my cursive is so bad that ONLY I can read what I’ve just written!)
My 3rd-grade teacher (a catholic nun) was a total freak about handwriting. OMG it was a nightmare sometimes. (She also instructed us on how to hold a book for reading and other stuff.) I actually appreciate her teaching now but I had to get rid of a lot of bad memories in order to do so.
Being a lefty, I never had GREAT handwriting and I now mostly print, but I actually enjoy writing in cursive once in a while when making notes just for the pleasure of it. It’s the one and only semi-artistic skill I possess.
Why waste the money, the kids all know how to curse already
“when and why did they ever take it away??
Computers did that. Everything was printed on a screen. Email replaced writing letters. Text messages, etc. I’d love for them to bring back Spencer script while they’re at it. It was before my time, but is beautiful to look at. I have a box of receipts from the mid 1800s left by a great great grandparent.
Me too. My penmanship is poor, my printmanship somewhat better and legible. My elementary school teachers did not know what to do with left handers.
However, at age 25 I found a penmanship course with an instructor that helped us lefties. If I stayed with the courses, I might be proficient in cursive.
Try this, Big Truck. Just make sure you don't have to erase anything... 
ditto ...
personally, i think it’s totally a waste of time to teach children cursive writing as a mandatory subject ... much better to focus on touch-typing and even printing ...
except possibly for signatures, there’s about as much need for cursive writing in today’s world as there is for Sanskrit writing ...
in the not too distant future, only Professors of Cursive Writing will be able too study, decode, and interpret cursive writing ...
cursive writing is the penny of communications, and i say good riddance to both ... now if we can just get rid of daylight savings time ...
This will be a strain for high school students these days.
40% cannot place if WWII or the American Civil War was earlier.
But if the child doesn’t know how to write his or her own name they could grow up to be the new President Biden.
The Autopen Company (Damilic Corporation) in Maryland may offer scholarships.
When I was teaching at the day treatment center for juvenile felons — I pretty much had carte blance on what I taught the kids. So... I got them reading — they tested at or above grade level before I left — and began teaching them cursive.
My explanation to them — they needed to be able to read the founding documents themselves.
Curiously, a year later, both Orange County and Seminole County Public School Systems began teaching cursive again...
Yeah, but will they have the Sisters of St Joseph walking the aisles during “Penmanship” time wielding a ruler ready to crack down on the miscreant not holding the No 2 pencil correctly?!
Cursive writing is supposed to aid in brain development in children and adults.
When I was growing up, a printed signature was literally not accepted.
Useless waste of resources.
To all
Glad to hear that.
Both my father and his mother were left handed. Absolutely atrocious handwriting because the teachers didn’t know what to do with lefties.
Mrs. Bug Truck tried to work with my dad but to no avail.
Mrs. Bug Truck uses some sort of pencil grip that slides over a pencil. It teaches the student how to grasp the pencil correctly.
Never heard of it and never had to use it. Must be a new fangled contraption.
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