The Common Core State Standards, introduced in 2010, did not include cursive writing. As a result, many states and school districts eliminated cursive instruction from their curricula. This exclusion limits students' ability to access and interpret historical documents and handwritten materials.
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Cursive learning, even writing the same sentence over and over again, " I will not talk in class" is a powerful learning device for the brain. It teaches coordination, muscle memory, agility of the hand, etc. Sewing, knitting, crochet, hand writing, penmanship all of it, opens and keeps open patterns in our brains. They want to shut this important development down???!!! Idiocracy. Half developed brains for button pushers, great! Get a lined notebook then, and a few pencils, and teach it at home, it is not obsolete! Our hands are part of our gifts from God, we write, make art, and create with them, but if they are not trained early, the muscle memory will not be part of our development.
I was struggling in courses such as Microbiology, Anatomy and Physiology, and other subjects that required memorization of huge bits of data. I kind of accidentally figured out a way to make it stick. It was tedious, and took quite a bit of time, but it worked. I'd make notes, directly from the textbooks, then write those notes, word for word two or three times, using cursive writing. I can't imagine trying to do that by printing. Anyway, my grades improved dramatically. BTW, I learned cursive starting in first grade, and it was an actual graded subject called "Penmanship". Yeah, I'm that old.
me too darlin, me too. Back then we learned a lot through repetition, and we did not get passed on to higher grades if we did not learn our stuff.