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Students in Texas will be required to learn cursive by end of 5th grade
By Aris Folley - 04/09/19 08:35 AM EDT
Starting this fall, students in Texas will be required to know how to write legibly in cursive by the end of fifth grade.
The move comes several years after the State Board of Education changed the language arts requirements for the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills in 2017, according to a local NBC station.
At the time, the updates weren’t reportedly scheduled to take effect until the 2019-2020 school year.
Read more at: https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/437983-students-in-texas-will-be-required-to-learn-cursive-by-end-of-5th-grade
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https://abc13.com/education/texas-schools-bringing-cursive-back-to-classrooms/5239822/
...State leaders who developed the Common Core omitted cursive for a host of reasons, including an increasing need for children in a digital-heavy age to master computer keyboarding and evidence that even most adults use some hybrid of classic cursive and print in everyday life.
"If you just stop and think for a second about what are the sorts of skills that people are likely to be using in the future, it's much more likely that keyboarding will help students succeed in careers and in school than it is that cursive will," said Morgan Polikoff, an assistant professor of K-12 policy and leadership at the University of Southern California.
Cursive advocates cite recent brain science that indicates the fluid motion employed when writing script enhances hand-eye coordination and develops fine motor skills, in turn promoting reading, writing and cognition skills.
They further argue that scholars of the future will lose the ability to interpret valuable cultural resources - historical documents, ancestors' letters and journals, handwritten scholarship - if they can't read cursive.
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I learned cursive in first grade, without ever being taught how to print. That was long ago in a Chicago Catholic school.
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https://abc13.com/education/texas-schools-bringing-cursive-back-to-classrooms/5239822/
...State leaders who developed the Common Core omitted cursive for a host of reasons, including an increasing need for children in a digital-heavy age to master computer keyboarding and evidence that even most adults use some hybrid of classic cursive and print in everyday life.
But the primary reason was so that people could no longer read the Constitution.
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As an ex-teacher, I think that it helps students learn to think and organize their thoughts.
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Students no longer learn to write cursive or spell. That's coo-coo. Maybe they don't need to today...but they will.
I was on jury duty a couple of years ago with a teacher. She resigned because of this.
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I very rarely wrote in block until I was in the Navy and had to fill out so many supply chits.
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Students no longer learn to write cursive or spell. That's coo-coo. Maybe they don't need to today...but they will.
I was on jury duty a couple of years ago with a teacher. She resigned because of this.
Do students now even learn math? Or do they only learn how to work a calculator?
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Do students now even learn math? Or do they only learn how to work a calculator?
Teachers hate parents (and grandparents like me) that teach math to their kids the old, tried and true way, i.e. times tables.
A couple of years ago, we were at Fort Sumter, and the park ranger was talking about the manning requirements for each of the 17 cannons. When he said each battery required 5 soldiers, I said "85 total". You wouldn't believe the number of kids that looked at me like I was crazy...how did he know that? lol
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Teachers hate parents (and grandparents like me) that teach math to their kids the old, tried and true way, i.e. times tables.
A couple of years ago, we were at Fort Sumter, and the park ranger was talking about the manning requirements for each of the 17 cannons. When he said each battery required 5 soldiers, I said "85 total". You wouldn't believe the number of kids that looked at me like I was crazy...how did he know that? lol
And young store clerks can't handle it when you give them more money than what the register tells them so that you only get a five back for example.
I taught my son math before he started school and it was several years before the class got to where he started 1st grade with, if then.
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Not long after the workplace had put PCs on the desks of engineers, a study was completed.
The study concluded theengineers' productivity benefited greatly from typing class completion. Same for accountants.
Hence the best of all world, "teach your children well;" the beauty of olde writing, and the practicality of touch typing.
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I learned cursive in first grade, without ever being taught how to print. That was long ago in a Chicago Catholic school.
Right-hand only, I assume....
I should be happy about that I suppose. It made Mrs. Liberty ambidextrous. :laugh:
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As an ex-teacher, I think that it helps students learn to think and organize their thoughts.
Helps with spelling too.
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Right-hand only, I assume....
I should be happy about that I suppose. It made Mrs. Liberty ambidextrous. :laugh:
My stepfather was a lefty, but was forced to learn handwriting righty. He never switched back, but one could hardly read his writing. Crazy how things were done back then.
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Students in Texas will be required to learn cursive by end of 5th grade
Excellent! Perhaps they will be the core in that generation who can actually read original documents for themselves!
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My cursive has gotten sloppy over the years. Sometimes I find myself using a block capitalized letter that flows into cursive instead of using a capitalized cursive letter.
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In a Technical Writing class, one of the assignments was writing a resume. One of my classmates did her resume all in cursive. Her handwriting was beautiful.
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I write like a doctor! LOL! No one else can read it but I can!
My penmanship sucks! When I was in drafting class many years ago I got all the technical stuff just right on the drawings but my lettering was so bad the As turned into Cs.
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Yall go to hell!
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I write like a doctor! LOL! No one else can read it but I can!
My penmanship sucks! When I was in drafting class many years ago I got all the technical stuff just right on the drawings but my lettering was so bad the As turned into Cs.
You're penmanship can't be that bad if you can read it.
Some of my notes, I even have trouble understanding what I scribbled down.
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Students no longer learn to write cursive or spell. That's coo-coo. Maybe they don't need to today...but they will.
I was on jury duty a couple of years ago with a teacher. She resigned because of this.
I was told they got rid of cursive in schools to teach coding instead .
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Right-hand only, I assume....
I should be happy about that I suppose. It made Mrs. Liberty ambidextrous. :laugh:
My sister and aunt are ambidextrous because of this too.
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I was told they got rid of cursive in schools to teach coding instead .
Good one!