Should we be doing this? Or has cursive gone the way of the slide rule? https://nordot.app/1100364223661752738? ... 7532812385
My handwriting has always been sub-par, I'm a lefty and had straight Cs in the subject. I had learned to type starting in third grade and always preferred a keyboard. BUT, unlike the right's dear leader, when I sign my name, you can read it. Am I the only one? Or do you guys just do a scribble for a signature?In 2016, California Democratic state Assemblymember Sharon Quirk-Silva sat with then-California Gov. Jerry Brown at an event where he signed baseball-type cards featuring the image of his dog, Colusa.
But many of the recipients of the cards couldn’t read his cursive signature, Quirk-Silva recalled, much to the Democratic governor’s dismay. “The governor asked me what I did” before becoming a legislator, she remembered. “I said I was a teacher, and he said, ‘You have to bring back cursive writing.’”
Last month, the California legislature unanimously passed and Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a law requiring the teaching of cursive or “joined italics” handwriting in grades one through six.
While grandparents’ sprawling handwriting on birthday cards or treasured family recipes may spring to mind when many younger people think of cursive, some educators today think it’s a skill worth reviving even — or maybe especially — in an age when most kids spend hours every day on their smartphones. But others think students already have too many subjects to master and that their fingers belong on keyboards.
Some California teachers already were teaching cursive, but not usually in underresourced schools, Quirk-Silva said in an interview.
She argued cursive is valuable to read historical documents, increases writing speed and has become a popular way for teachers to make sure students are not using artificial intelligence to craft their written work.
