Indiana Drops Cursive Writing Requirement

[Ridgerunner]

I am from Indiana.

My son just graduated High School and has no idea how to write in cursive.

It started when he was in grade school. I would make him write out assignments and then he would get counted off for neatness because the other kid had their parents type it out on the computer.

Its too bad… I think cursive is pretty.

I dont think Indiana is alone… I am sure lots of states have kids who dont know how to write in cursive. When We lived in California for a year, my son was never given an assignment they wanted written out either.

What a strange thing for INdiana to do. Guess maybe the day is coming when cursive will be a form of secret writing known only to graduates of private schools. Only they will be able to read documents from most of the nation’s past. Imagine school trips to museums in which the kids will gawp at revered documents inside glass cases and ask "What’s 'at ‘ere, teach’? “Chinese?”

 

[Stjudeprayforus]

What a strange thing for INdiana to do. Guess maybe the day is coming when cursive will be a form of secret writing known only to graduates of private schools. Only they will be able to read documents from most of the nation’s past. Imagine school trips to museums in which the kids will gawp at revered documents inside glass cases and ask "What’s 'at ‘ere, teach’? “Chinese?”

They have been dropping cursive for at least 10 years.

My son never learned it. He just graduated.

I doubt Indiana students are alone. They just said it out loud.

 

[vsedriver]

What a strange thing for INdiana to do. Guess maybe the day is coming when cursive will be a form of secret writing known only to graduates of private schools. Only they will be able to read documents from most of the nation’s past. Imagine school trips to museums in which the kids will gawp at revered documents inside glass cases and ask "What’s 'at ‘ere, teach’? “Chinese?”

LOL! that’s exactly what I was thinking. If you can’t write cursive how can you read it? How will you read those old WWII letters you find in Great Grandma’s attic?

How will kids be able to look at the Declaration of Independence and actually be able to read it?

 

[mary_bobo]

LOL! that’s exactly what I was thinking. If you can’t write cursive how can you read it? How will you read those old WWII letters you find in Great Grandma’s attic?

How will kids be able to look at the Declaration of Independence and actually be able to read it?

Good grief. Don’t you know that people don’t read that antiqated document any more?

 

[meltzerboy]

I DO!!!

I’ve been told my penmanship is beautiful … well, it’s very legible is what I say … and why is it (cursive) because we practiced every day our “penmanship” and were so excited to learn cursive.

I stayed in many recesses for penmanship - I was one of the unfortunate that wrote left-handed … HORRORS of HORRORS! yes, the pencil was taken out of my left hand and put in my right.

I think it’s a damn shame they are dropping it.

I agree and think this is just another symptom of our technology-driven times, which are in the process of leading, or have already led, to the sharp decline of books (I mean those you can touch and handle), records/CDs, face-to-face communication and interaction, office work (as opposed to at-home), on-campus higher education, and so on. While I’m liberal on most social and political issues, I nonetheless see the rise of technology as depriving us of traditions, skills, and our own humanity and individuality, even though it offers an explosion of knowledge and time-saving devices.

 

[ringil]

My daughter is only 2. If they take cursive out of her curriculuum we will teach her at home.