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Originally Posted by kane
Be 100% honest here.
Aside from someone's signature when was the last time you wrote something in cursive or read something that was written in cursive?
For me it was so long ago I can't remember when it was.
Also, learning cursive is not the same thing as learning a different language. It is learning a different way of writing the language that you already know.
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The problem with this is not that they stopped doing it... the problem is that the fact that they stopped doing it and they weren't smart enough to say what they would replace it with. Instead they let it become a negative PR scandal instead of saying "instead of cursive, we are going to emphasize [more important life skill here]"
Humans do not respond well to "taking away" and "loss". It's a basic primal, feast or famine type instinctive reaction ingrained in our DNA.
That said, i think they should keep teaching the same things as always. Learning and education is not about what you can apply in life.. if that was the case, they'd be teaching, "bagging groceries" and "shovel handling 101" all through high school. There should be standards and the standards should be high. Not continually lowered.