Doesn't anyone learn cursive anymore?

[Ride Junkie]

It's funny to me how we all learned cursive way back in elementary school...yet most adults I know write everything in CAPITAL LETTERS! That drives me nuts! Yet most people sign their name in cursive, so it's probably better to at least know how to write it.

I usually write in cursive because it's faster, but if I'm leaving someone a note, I print so it is easier to read.

 

[carone0318]

I don't know one person who writes the capital Q like it is supposed to written or capital F for that matter.

I think that most learn it the proper way because we have too and then we do a cursive/print combo (at least I do).

 

[JoyG]

I teach third grade and I teach cursive...although it's not a graded subject therefore it gets shoved on the back burner a lot.

After spring break I will require the students to write everything in cursive. But this year is the only year they'll have that requirement because the 4th grade teachers don't spend any time on handwriting at all.

 

[Mellie2162]

My kids go to private school and both learned cursive in K-5. They don't know how to print. Correction, I take that back. My DS8 taught himself how to print from a Leap Frog toy he got when he was 5. My DD12 is just learning to print from another girl in her class who is teaching her. They are not allowed to use anything but cursive on school work.

 

[Conservative Hippie]

Drilled into me in sixth grade, I never print anymore, only "write." I remember my littlest brother learning something call denelian or something like that when he was in third grade that was a cross between cursive and printing. I don't know if he ever learned proper cursive.

BTW, I write proper Q's and F's (my maiden name started with an F).

 

[sap1227]

I don't know one person who writes the capital Q like it is supposed to written or capital F for that matter.

I think that most learn it the proper way because we have too and then we do a cursive/print combo (at least I do).

They have changed the "Q" I was at a teacher store and all of the cursive posters had the "Q" looking a lot like the printed "Q"

 

[Alex2kMommy]

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.

My DS6 was taught to write his letters in a pre-cursive style, sort of a meld between printing and cursive. There is a name for the style, but it escapes me.

I'm not sure exactly how I feel about it. On the one hand, some letters (at least as he makes them) are hard to differentiate. On the other, if it makes the transition to cursive easier, I don't think that's a bad thing.

 

[carone0318]

They have changed the "Q" I was at a teacher store and all of the cursive posters had the "Q" looking a lot like the printed "Q"

Ok, I am 37 so take it for what it is worth, but when I learned the capital letter "Q" back in the day it looked almost like the number two.

Am I the only one who remembers this? God, I hope I am not losing it....

 

[JKanownik]

No, it definitely looked like a 2 when I learned it.

I think it is sad if some children are not being taught cursive. What a shame.

 

[sap1227]

Ok, I am 37 so take it for what it is worth, but when I learned the capital letter "Q" back in the day it looked almost like the number two.

Am I the only one who remembers this? God, I hope I am not losing it....

I remember it too, that is why I was so shocked to see it different (and I am 29--but my 24 year old sister had NO idea what I was talking about!!)

 

[Albort]

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[carone0318]

My DS6 was taught to write his letters in a pre-cursive style, sort of a meld between printing and cursive. There is a name for the style, but it escapes me.

I'm not sure exactly how I feel about it. On the one hand, some letters (at least as he makes them) are hard to differentiate. On the other, if it makes the transition to cursive easier, I don't think that's a bad thing.

This is what my kids have and are learning - it is called denelian. It is a blend between print and cursive. It is supposed to make the transit from print cursive easier. When my dd prints a lower case "k" it actually looks cursive and the d's and a's and such all have the little hooks on the end (as my dd has termed them) with the slant as you mentioned above. I knew nothing of denelian until my kids went to school. I kind of think it's new - at least in my book!

My kids go to Catholic school - of course they are going to learn cursive! Penmanship is the pride of Catholic school.

 

[cardaway]

I don't know one person who writes the capital Q like it is supposed to written or capital F for that matter.

I think that most learn it the proper way because we have too and then we do a cursive/print combo (at least I do).

That's part of the problem right there. If you got 100 of the teachers responsible for teaching this together even they couldn't agree on how the writing is supposed to look (especially if the Q is supposed to look like a Q or 2). What's the point in spending this amount of time on something so subjective?

 

[RLccweems]

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!

My ds learned it (cursive) last year in 3rd grade. I remember him saying he hated it! It was to hard and it was for girl only! He now had the prettiest cursive writing and he doesn't complain.


lettie

 

[Kimmumum]

My boys touched on it in 2nd grade but really learned it in 3rd.