[Andrea]

Originally Posted by Kobi

There was a story on the news last night that teaching cursive writing in schools has now become optional and keyboarding is now mandatory. I dont know if it was a local thing or a national thing.

Seems weird to me. Bad enough kids today cant spell, or construct sentences to say what they mean, or conjugate verbs properly. Now we wont teach them how to write? And this helps them compete in a world economy how?

My honey wants to know how this kids will be able to read cursive. Will documents like the Declaration of Independence need to be translated?

I have such mixed feelings about this. I never use the cursive I learned. If I must hand write something, I print. However, it feels as if we are destroying a right of passage or something. Sort of makes me sad......