Many states such as Indiana no longer teach cursive writing. It is thought that people can print their names for a signature and that other subjects are more important.
One first grade teacher said this:
Penmanship in grades K-2 and cursive were eliminated because of high stakes testing. That is considered a waste of time by administration and law makers. I am a 1st grade teacher and I was verbally reprimanded (in front of my class) because I was using instructional time to address some handwriting issues that were impacting most of my class. My students don't recognize the difference between capital and lowercase letters, so they consistently but capital letters in the middle of words. For example: hOMeWOrk. The letters "h" and "n" look the same because of height. The letters "a" and "u" look the same because they don't "close" the letter "a." Same can be said with "e" and "c." Primary students today cannot print on a printing line. They have no idea which letters are tall or short or how to space out their words. Cursive is something the students are desperate to learn. It's like a right of passage. Cursive and printing are skills used throughout your entire life, yet we have abandoned them. We are taking about 10-15 minutes per day being used for penmanship. I lose ten times that every single day addressing behavior problems that administrators and law makers turn a blind eye to. Hopefully things will change drastically with the end of No Child Left Behind and we can get back to basics.
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One first grade teacher said this:
Penmanship in grades K-2 and cursive were eliminated because of high stakes testing. That is considered a waste of time by administration and law makers. I am a 1st grade teacher and I was verbally reprimanded (in front of my class) because I was using instructional time to address some handwriting issues that were impacting most of my class. My students don't recognize the difference between capital and lowercase letters, so they consistently but capital letters in the middle of words. For example: hOMeWOrk. The letters "h" and "n" look the same because of height. The letters "a" and "u" look the same because they don't "close" the letter "a." Same can be said with "e" and "c." Primary students today cannot print on a printing line. They have no idea which letters are tall or short or how to space out their words. Cursive is something the students are desperate to learn. It's like a right of passage. Cursive and printing are skills used throughout your entire life, yet we have abandoned them. We are taking about 10-15 minutes per day being used for penmanship. I lose ten times that every single day addressing behavior problems that administrators and law makers turn a blind eye to. Hopefully things will change drastically with the end of No Child Left Behind and we can get back to basics.
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