Cursive was the biggest waste of time in grade school. 90s curriculum still had it and I hated it.
Touch typing is being lost even in an all digital age, and I think that is a way bigger concern.
Typing is way more important. Two decades later I can still 100wpm blind even though I use an actual keyboard less often. The average kid these days cannot accurately break 30-40wpm and take away predictive/context typing and their spelling goes out the door
I say this as someone who loves and owns multiple fountain pens. The amount of time needed for good penmanship is higher than learning a language. Cursive is irrelevant.
The real issue is literacy, let's make sure students can read before we worry about floofy letters
Correlation does not equal causation. Cursive is definitely good to know for a slew of reasons, but you're not going to be illiterate if you don't know it.
Cursive was the biggest waste of time in grade school. 90s curriculum still had it and I hated it.
Touch typing is being lost even in an all digital age, and I think that is a way bigger concern.
Typing is way more important. Two decades later I can still 100wpm blind even though I use an actual keyboard less often. The average kid these days cannot accurately break 30-40wpm and take away predictive/context typing and their spelling goes out the door
I say this as someone who loves and owns multiple fountain pens. The amount of time needed for good penmanship is higher than learning a language. Cursive is irrelevant.
The real issue is literacy, let's make sure students can read before we worry about floofy letters
Cursive went away and literacy goes down. Maybe not a direct relationship but probably related.
Correlation does not equal causation. Cursive is definitely good to know for a slew of reasons, but you're not going to be illiterate if you don't know it.
But would you and others still not be able to read documents and information that is written in cursive?