Doesn't anyone learn cursive anymore?

[SDFgirl]

Doesn't anyone teach or learn cursive anymore??

I teach 3rd grade, which is when I remember learning cursive. We are not required to teach it at all. I guess I can understand that with everything being on the computer these days, but most of my kids have terrible handwriting!

After spring break we have 9 (yes NINE) days of testing in a row! So I'm planning to teach things in the afternoons that will be relaxing and fun - no heavy duty stuff. I think I'm going to do cursive, the kids are so excited!

 

[wheeler1]

Good Morning!

The children are still taught this in 3rd grade in our area. Once they have learned all the letters they are required to write in cursive for the rest of the year. Except for certain circumstances that is, testing, etc.

 

[Sparx]

I was homeschooled third grade, but I learned it. I actually have very nice cursive.

I dunno if the public schools do it, though.

 

[Imagine Ears]

I was taught cursive - hated it.

I'm pretty sure they still teach it around here.

 

[Joanne UK]

My children - aged 6 and 4 are being taught cursive. They have to use it all the way through their Primary School education and aren't allowed to write any other way.

Personally I don't like it. I think their handwriting style should just develop naturally.

 

[lewdyan1]

My DD is in Fourth grade and she has not learn it. I don't think they do it at her school anymore.

 

[Kimberle]

My 2nd grader is learning it now!

I guess many schools have dropped it now because it won't help on the No Kids Left Behind testing.... Seems most teaching is now geared towards these tests.....

 

[Pembo]

My 3rd grader has been learning cursive all year. His handwriting is beautiful!

Last year I was tutoring a 4th grader who had switched schools. School #1 had just started teaching cursive but when he got to school #2, they expected him to already know it. I discovered this when we were working on homework that was required to be in cursive. Poor kid was lost. We spent a month in tutoring learning cursive. It was so much fun to teach and to watch him get it. He had beautiful handwriting as well.

So it's hit and miss here.....

 

[disneysnowflake]

My older son is now in 11th grade. He learned cursive in 3rd grade.

My younger son is in 7th grade. He never had cursive. I had to teach him cursive.

I guess it depends on the district. My niece is in 3rd and has cursive. Our district doesn't though.

 

[stacy347]

My girls all started it in 2nd grade (youngest is learning it right now).

 

[stevenpensacola]

The school our kids attend starts teaching the kids to write in cursive in kindergarten. They say that it's actually easier for a child to write in cursive than it is to print. The hand motion is very similar to coloring.

But with the advent of computers, who writes anymore?

It's mostly to fill out forms, and they want you to print.

Cursive writing may go the way of the abacus and the slide rule.

 

[leafette]

My daughter's school does it in the third grade (she's currently in second). She's so excited about it, she had me get her a book so she can practice for next year!

 

[carone0318]

The school my kids go to learn cursive. They start with the print in K and they teach I think it is called denalian (sp?) style, it is similiar to cursive, the lower case k actually looks like a cursive k. The d & a and other letter that are similiar have the little hooks on the end.

Supposedly when they transition to cursive it is much easier coming from the denalian style print. Dd picked it up easily (she's in 5th grade now) and ds is in K and he is starting the little hooks on letters and stuff.

 

[Nascia]

My son is in a virtual charter school and was taught cursive in 3rd grade. He can read it, but never uses it to write. His handwriting is horrible though, so we've been spending a good amount of time on it and working on fine motor skills.

 

[golfgal]

Our kids all learned it in school but none of them have been required to use it. DD12 will write in cursive on occasion but neither of the boys do and their cursive is so much more legible. It takes them longer now because they don't practice it as much but I couldn't convince them that it is faster. For the most part though, they type any papers that are turned in that are longer then a paragraph so mostly their handwritten things are worksheets, etc.

When I was in college the talk then was to eliminated cursive and substituted keyboarding because they thought that the personal computer would become fairly popular in the next decade or so (this was the time when the Apple IIG was the cat's meow).

 

[KristiKelly]

I'm in NC, my DS learned it last year while in 3rd grade.

 

[jrmasm]

It's taught here. DD didn't get straight A's until handwriting was no longer graded.

 

[Brianne]

They teach it in 3rd & 4th grade here. DS has gone back to printing though & while DD has to write in cursive for the rest of the year, she's not enjoying it much. Her cursive writing is terrible too.

Considering how much computer work they're doing these days---DS has homework online plus textbooks on CD-ROM---I've been wanting them to know typing more than cursive. As long as they can write, I don't care how they do it.

My handwriting is more of a cursive/print hybrid these days while DH will do anything to avoid handwriting anything!

 

[DisneyAddict_M]

I remember learning it in 2nd or 3rd grade. My teacher used to tell me that my handwriting is atrocious. I now have excellent handwriting, so TAKE THAT, Mrs. Whatever!

DD is only going into first grade, so I'm not sure when/if they teach it around these here parts, but I hope they do. I find it much easier on the hand than printing. I never print anymore unless absolutely necessaryl.

 

[pkasbohm]

Our school teaches it in 3rd grade. My ds is learning it now and is asked to to all his work in it.

My ds has known how to write his name in cursive for a couple years now and his second grade teacher asked him not to write his name in cursive on his papers because he will learn it in 3rd grade