Curs....ive!

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It's back. Now grandparents and grandchildren will have something in common.

Flip the script: Cursive sees revival in school instruction

EW YORK (AP) — Cursive writing is looping back into style in schools across the country after a generation of students who know only keyboarding, texting and printing out their words longhand.

Alabama and Louisiana passed laws in 2016 mandating cursive proficiency in public schools, the latest of 14 states that require cursive. And last fall, the 1.1 million-student New York City schools, the nation's largest public school system, encouraged the teaching of cursive to students, generally in the third grade.

"It's definitely not necessary but I think it's, like, cool to have it," said Emily Ma, a 17-year-old senior at New York City's academically rigorous Stuyvesant High School who was never taught cursive in school and had to learn it on her own.

Penmanship proponents say writing words in an unbroken line of swooshing l's and three-humped m's is just a faster, easier way of taking notes. Others say students should be able to understand documents written in cursive, such as, say, a letter from Grandma. And still more say it's just a good life skill to have, especially when it comes to signing your name.

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1. My now 9 year old grandson has had his cursive signature perfected for a while now!

He thinks it is pretty cool!

He is far better on the keyboard than I was at his age. I think when I was nine I had a manual typewriter and that is how I taught myself how to type! He has had computers to work with since he was a toddler.

But as for reading a letter from grandma...grandma's handwriting is now a combination of print and cursive. Whatever is easier for arthritic hands!

[Chiquitita]

2. aesthetic and important

for note-taking, which, when done by hand increases the cognitive processing of information and etches thought into memory. There is no reason to teach kids to print. They just need to be able to read print. Writing in Spanish for example starts with connected letters in cursive forms. No one is ever taught to print, so no extra time needed to teach two forms of writing a letter. There is a range of ways of writing -- perhaps our print/cursive binary is an obstacle.

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3. Well never thought I'd praise a law coming from Alabama or Louisiana

Although I admit to being addicted to The Southern Woman's channel on YouTube

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4. Glad to read this!

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There used to be nothing better that one could possess other than having the gift of "a fine hand". It was something people worked towards perfecting and was rewarded in school.

I still write in cursive today as it is far easier than block printing everything with no punctuation included.

Having a fine hand when you write gives a form of credibility to the writer as not everyone has a "fine hand".

If I have the chance, I'll have to post an old letter from an "aunt" I knew growing up. Everyone used to always comment on what beautiful handwriting she had.

Problem is, not sure how to post this without it taking me a couple of hrs. to figure out!

& recommend!!