re: Is it true? They don’t teach cursive in school?

a)it's called "script"
b)lots of schools still teach it
3)it's radically superior to print

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Is cursive necessary really?

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Older folks get weirdly pissed off at things that don't really matter. It was wild when you think about it that when I was a kid I would get points taken off for penmanship.

Same with math. Sure I am sure some of the new stuff is BS but hell when I was a kid we were mostly taught things off of memory. Its not a bad thing for kids to learn they why and how to figure shite out in a different way.

There is a lot of stuff that probably does not need to be taught in school, and a few things that should be taught or put more emphasis on.

Last week my daughter in the 10th grade needed help with complex numbers. If you unaware that deals with imaginary numbers so you can solve problems like the square root of a negative number. Epic waste of time!

We prepare every kid in high school to be a rocket scientist knowing it will only be an extreme few that need that type of knowledge and they are smart enough to pickup that knowledge when they need it.

We could take that time teach more everyday skills or knowledge to the vast majority of people. Teach kids how to live healthy through nutrition and exercise. Teach personal finances and retirement planning. Put greater emphasis on Civics and Economics since everyone can vote and we all have to live with the consequences, at least make them educated voters.

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Why would they? It was always a waste of time.

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Unreal

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There's a strong connection between the hand and the neural circuitry of the brain—as students learn to better write the critical features of letters, they also learn to recognize them more fluently. This recognition of letters leads to greater letter-writing fluency, which leads to greater overall reading development

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I haven't used cursive since high school.

You don’t write checks?

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There's a strong connection between the hand and the neural circuitry of the brain—as students learn to better write the critical features of letters, they also learn to recognize them more fluently. This recognition of letters leads to greater letter-writing fluency, which leads to greater overall reading development

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I learned a second language and didn’t write it in cursive. So I don’t really believe this non sense.

I think cursive is good for kids as it’s a good challenge for their mind. Expanding and challenging young minds in engaging ways is more important than making sure kids learn specific topics.

There isn’t really a need for it from what I know though.

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Why the hell would someone need to learn cursive in 2021?

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Because the boomers say so.

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Older folks get weirdly pissed off at things that don't really matter. It was wild when you think about it that when I was a kid I would get points taken off for penmanship.

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My brother ha a medium size business and hires high school kids for part time work, from the stories he tells me we need to scrap the entire curriculum used today and go back to what they were doing in 1955. His number one complaint, there handwriting is un-readable, believe I are not there are still countless situations where it is necessary to communicate without a phone or computer.