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Jake Stern

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4. Strange that schools are on this kick to require cursive again

Wed Dec 21, 2016, 01:04 AM

Dec 2016

but shutting down classes that are useful like Shop and Home Economics.

In Shop I learned the proper use and care of tools and how to do basic repairs. In Home Economics I learned cooking and housekeeping plus how to balance a checkbook. Cursive taught me how to write like my grandmother.

My mother and sister are the only people I know that regularly write in cursive. I hate it and my handwriting is undecipherable in cursive but very neat printed.

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Arizona now requires cursive be taught in schools [View all] TexasTowelie Dec 2016 OP

Hasn't that always been a requirement? SpookyDem Dec 2016 #1

Why? HassleCat Dec 2016 #2

wistfulness Lithos Dec 2016 #3

Question: How do people sign their name if they can't write in cursive? citood Dec 2016 #6

I spent a surprising amount of time PoindexterOglethorpe Dec 2016 #7

It depends Lithos Dec 2016 #13

I could sign my name long before I wrote cursive. HassleCat Dec 2016 #14

What is the utility of candles? LuvLoogie Dec 2016 #5

I do believe recent research has indicated that learning PoindexterOglethorpe Dec 2016 #9

Yes, lots of reasons! Silver Gaia Dec 2016 #10

If you do it well, speed. TexasProgresive Dec 2016 #11

Strange that schools are on this kick to require cursive again Jake Stern Dec 2016 #4

I never took shop, so I honestly haven't a clue to what extent PoindexterOglethorpe Dec 2016 #8

I don't think it's needed in this day and time. As a lefty, teachers raccoon Dec 2016 #12