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Cursive writing: A dying art form?

by MEG COYLE / KING 5 News

KING5.com

Posted on October 27, 2010 at 5:49 PM

Poll:
Do you think kids should still be required to learn cursive writing in school?

It's one of the three R's, but these days, writing in its traditional form is becoming a bit of a lost art form. It's still being taught in Seattle Public Schools, but it is not required. And the Washington state Department of Education doesn't insist on it either. It's a trend that is troubling some educators.
 

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ledball00n389218 said on October 28, 2010 at 9:16 PM

Not everything that is a tradition is a necessity, of course - we all seem to understand that. But some things should be kept alive, and not buried by technology. Cursive writing - letter-writing at all - should become a renewed art. Means much more to receive a handwritten letter, than to just type away, or click onto an option for sending someone elses' thoughts that really show the receiver that you are too busy to write to them.

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tootoo said on October 28, 2010 at 1:08 PM

And while our kids are busy learning cursive and junk science, other country's kids are learning quantum mechanics, accurate biology/geology/sciences (we're talking evolution, ~4.5 billion year old earth and global warming) and will court away all scientific jobs from our country. But hey, at least we'll be able to tell them off in cursive letters!

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shandog63 said on October 28, 2010 at 11:00 AM

Eightwrong...wrong again. Kids learning cursive helps develop fine motor skills that are otherwise missing if not taught. I know because my son was paralyzed on his right side and learning cursive helped fine tune his motor control. Not everything is just for the brain...sometimes coordination is involved also.

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eightwrong said on October 28, 2010 at 12:26 AM

and why does it trouble some people? Can the kids print? Can they be understood? Then what does writing in cursive have to do with anything? That's like the argument about the serial Oxford comma. Get a grip. Writing, like grammar, evolves.

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