School District Considers Dropping Cursive

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Parents can take an active role in their child's education and teach at home their personal preferences.

Teachers have a limited time during the day to teach kids essential strategies including literacy, logic and reasoning and history.

Adding something that is unnecessary because it's "nice" is an unfair burden to put on already overworked teachers. Not to mention the limited budget that teachers have to work with in the first place.

Cursive isn't just nice or pretty. Several studies have shown how much cursive helps students, especially those who have learning difficulties. Some experts believe that cursive is what students should be taught first because there is a lot less letter direction confusion, and it flows.

Children are taught handwriting at school, it being part of the curricula. It has nothing to do with devoting more time, just choosing which type of handwriting to teach.
It can go either way, with cursive being taught at school and print taught at home, or vice versa.

Don Potter and Sam Blumenfeld are strong advocates for cursive.

http://www.donpotter.net/pdf/cursive-first.pdf