Cursive Handwriting and the Dodo








They opened a new grade school near us. State of the art, airy, full of light. Sure beat the old parochial school I attended, with its gloomy hallways, worn floor tiles and the ever-present scent of packaged potatoes boiling in the puketeria. What I found missing from this modern new gold star took me by surprise. No border wall paper of the alphabet in cursive. What???



In many schools, cursive is no longer part of the curriculum. In an age where kids text in code and writing is done on wo...

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Published on July 24, 2012 21:01
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