Do Your Kids Read or Write in Cursive?

[TPC]

Our youngest is a smart kid. Now 18.
I left a letter (of things to do while we're gone) written in hand writing for him recently and he couldn't read it very well.
I'm told often my handwriting is really good so I asked his mom WTF?

She said handwriting/cursive is obsolete with the younger kids.
"They no longer use it."
Am I that dizzy and out of the loop and never realized that?

Do your kids use handwriting?

 

[KENDOG689]

Never knew that.News to me also.

 

[fmo24]

A friend was telling me their kid had to google how to write a capital F in cursive. Had never written one previously
I am left handed and never had good handwriting so at work always printed. Most communication is now email or text so I can see where it is a lost art.

 

[MillerTime]

I belive my 17 yo was taught cursive in grade school, but i know my 10 and 7 yo haven't. They just write in block letters or whatever they call it.
I write in a combination of the two. Kinda rolling off of one letter to the next. The other day i wrote a cursive S and for some reason it stood out and i remember thinking i hadnt wrote a cursive S in years!

 

[Riverbound]

Our youngest is a smart kid. Now 18.
I left a letter (of things to do while we're gone) written in hand writing for him recently and he couldn't read it very well.
I'm told often my handwriting is really good so I asked his mom WTF?

She said handwriting/cursive is obsolete with the younger kids.
"They no longer use it."
Am I that dizzy and out of the loop and never realized that?

Do your kids use handwriting?

Correct. Kids are no longer taught cursive in school. [emoji17]




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[707dog]

my son 11 yrs old writes in cursive it's not 100% perfect but i can read his homework, he does get credit for penmanship but also a student in gate/public academy PSA, 9 yr old daughter public school not so much have been to many parent nights and have not seen any kids doing it so not sure its even a topic to write in cursive till 5-6th or beyond at the public level.

 

[Guest06]

Ma ma mama always sed cursive is fo fo for da debil

 

[buck35]

How will they sign their name? X

 

[Taboma]

How will they sign their name? X

I was wondering the same thing.
I know my cursive was never great, unlike my wife's who writes beautifully.
Mine over the years, thanks first to typewriters, now keyboards, has deteriorated into a combo of print and cursive.
Hadn't really given it any thought, hmmmm, Ill have to ask my daughter how my 15 yo grandson writes.

 

[spectra3279]

It's all so the new generation can't read the constitution, the declaration of independence. Dumbing down the kids so they will not know their rights.

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[DLow]

My 9 and 11 year olds write in cursive pretty well. My 8 year old started learning this year and should have it down by the end of next school year. All go to same public school. I’m not too sure how important it is to learn any more, but they are.

 

[Meaney77]

My kindergartener is learning cursive. On a side note I can't write or read my chicken scratch anymore now that all I do is type at my desk.

 

[Andy01]

My 8 year old learned cursive this year in school. We both use it.

 

[lebel409]

23 yo can-doesn't, 17 yo can't -can't. My personal cursive, even after tutoring etc., is horrible. Once in college and they'd "accept" block writing it easier for anyone to read.

My take is that cursive may have been faster for some vs. block but with keyboards prevelant, it didn't make sense to flog a dead horse.

 

[Flyinbowtie]

My boys are 34 and 30, both were taught to write longhand in school,, but our eldest granddaughter, who is 10, isn't.
Since I am such a tyrant on education her Mom, (daughter in law) got some old books I have and is teaching her at home. The books came from a stash of old textbooks I acquired for just such purposes. They gotta last through 4 grandkids. So far, LOL.

Times...they are a changing.

 

[JD D05]

I saw my daughter practicing it the other day...homework, thought it was stupid.

 

[Spudsbud]

I asked my Son that. 25, college grad. He has never written a letter. Never!
When I asked him to address an envelope for me. He put the address in the top left corner. very small......
changing world guys......

 

[Albert]

No

 

[4Waters]

My daughter is in 5th grade and was tought in 3rd grade. My understanding is that it wasn't part of the curriculum for a few years here in Simi but it was brought back.

 

[Deja_Vu]

My kids learned but not sure they really practice it much.
Funny with the I-phone6 when you rotate the screen while texting it brings up some words in cursive you can send.

 

[rvrrun]

How will they sign their name? X

It's perfectly legal, there are people that do. Your signature does not have to be your name.

 

[rvrrun]

They are still teaching it here (TUSD), they start in the third grade.

 

[OC Mike]

18 yr old graduating next week has barely been introduced to it.
Had this conversation early on with Mom and lost.
They're argument was, Everything has gone Computer/word processing, what's the point.
Cursive will be completely gone after our generation..
My cursive sux BTW..

 

[RiverDave]

Correct. Kids are no longer taught cursive in school. [emoji17]




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I heard about this the other day as well.. They don't teach it at all anymore. WTF?

RD

 

[ltbaney1]

my wife teaches 5th grade, they just this year put it back in the curriculum. she has told me if she writes in cursive on the board, only about half the kids can read it.

 

[LuauLounge]

Saw a news blurb on a group of grade school kids that wrote letters in cursive to a group of folks in an adult old folks home describing their experiences and the old folks (those older than myself) would write back. All done via US mail. The kids got really into this and the old folks did too. Addressed so many learning experiences on both ends. Don't remember where this was, but I thought how great of an idea this is.

 

[lbhsbz]

My second grader learned cursive this year.

 

[LazyLavey]

My daughter was teaching Jr High in Oxnard. Pretty much paperless. All the kids are issued a iPad

All assignments are done and submitted electronically

She now teaches same subject in Moorpark, pretty much back to basics, they actually use paper, pens and pencils

Although I was taught as a youngster, I didn't know what the word "cursive" meant till I was 30. Went on a job interview and I was asked to write the alphabet in cursive....

Had to ask what "cursive" was, I thought it was some Slovak language

Man was I embarrassed

 

[jesco]

We have this debate in our house at least once a year. My kids, Sophomore and 6th Grade, were both taught cursive in 3rd and 4th grade, and than told to print everything in later years. My mom and mother in law both get so upset that they dont write "thank you" letters in cursive, or letters really at all. I keep telling them only two types of people still write letters... Old people, and people in PRISON!!! Its all text and email these days, its a new world.

 

[PlanB]

I guess they won't be able to read this (or any of our founding documents):

 

[Bpracing1127]

I learned it in 5th grade, I don’t think I could actually write in cursive if I tried. I don’t know anyone who does either.