THE ART OF CURSIVE WRITING: SOME STATES WANT IT SAVED (1135 hits)
Your National News November 2013 Day 14 Columbus, OH
Seven states that have adopted the Common Core are in a movement to have the art of cursive writing remain as part of its school requirement. This is because the states maintain that there are advantages to the skill of writing in cursive. This saving of the art has teachers and advocates agreeable that the process of learning to write cursive enhances and develops fine motor skills.
As the art of cursive writing has its drawbacks with technology making writing more pressing of keys than actually writing out on paper and pen. The form of writing is taking on a loosing it's existence as more to lighted screens and keypads.
States like California, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Massachusetts, North Carolina and Utah have moved to the keep the cursive requirement. North Carolina has prompted its to continue making cursive writing part of its school's requirements and striving with other pro-writing supporters to not lose the art of writing.
Cursive writing...I'm all for saving the art of manuscript writing! So many haven't the art of handwriting in cursive. :( O-O
Reading, writing, and arithmetic, could become Reading, texting, and arithmetic. I know many schools do not teach this skill. I wouldn't want it to become obsolete.
Thursday, November 14th 2013 at 2:13PM
MIISRAEL Bride
..."The form of writing is taking on a loosing it's existence as more to lighted screens and keypads. States like California, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Massachusetts, North Carolina and Utah have moved to the keep the cursive requirement."...
It's so true. We need our kids to learn how to write their signature. I'm really disappointed that schools are taking cursive writing out of their curriculums. My son is in 3rd grade and if I want him to learn, I have to teach him.
Smart move! I taught my now grown up son how to do cursive writing. It's hard for me to accept this as being a forgotten way of communication and art form. Way to go Jen!
Thursday, November 21st 2013 at 8:13PM
MIISRAEL Bride
It's something, eh! Parents still are able to be teachers when those educated ones decide on the irrelevancy of something we intuitively know is STILL relevant!
