“Shunned in Computer Age, Cursive Makes a Comeback in California”
January 27th, 2024
Thankfully, we never drank the Koolaid.
Our four homeschooled children learned both manuscript and cursive handwriting with the Zaner-Bloser system. I highly recommend it.
Our children can also read—wait for it—analog clocks. My sons told me that some of their peers can’t do it. To those children, reading analog clocks is seen as a sort of baffling adult skill. Believe it or not…
Via: Reuters:
A generation of children who learned to write on screens is now going old school.
Starting this year, California grade school students are required to learn cursive handwriting, after the skill had fallen out of fashion in the computer age.
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Experts say learning cursive improves cognitive development, reading comprehension and fine motor skills, among other benefits.
This won’t work with most of the kids whose parents can’t write cursive because they’ll think, along with their children, that it’s just a useless chore. The kids will get A’s and B’s as usual, whether they try to learn it or not. And it’s not required on any college entrance exam.
Not that isn’t a worthwhile skill, but even I wonder why California wants to spend kids’ time on it when they are so poor at math, science and history but can already write understandably if simply, and if only in block letters.