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Do they still teach long hand in school
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<blockquote data-quote="Williamsv" data-source="post: 1265200" data-attributes="member: 22323"><p>It breaks my heart that children are no longer taught cursive writing in school. I was the last third grade teacher to teach guided cursive writing in my county. Now adults have to print their name. The children came to third grade eager to learn "real writing," as they called it. By October most third graders could write everything in cursive. I required it. When they left my class and went to fourth grade,all but one teacher made them stop cursive and go back to printing. I do not understand a lot that is happening. Children who did beautiful cursive were heartbroken when they came back to tell me.</p><p> It used to be a GA state standard that all third graders write legibly in cursive by the end of year. Now it is becoming a lost art. Like I said it died in my county when I stopped teaching. I dearly loved to teach it. A few weeks ago, a student going into seventh grade asked me to reach him how to write his name in cursive.</p><p> Our school systems continue to teach less and less. I wonder how students will make it when they get out in the real world. They can't read, depend on calculators and computers for everything. I do not have an answer.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Williamsv, post: 1265200, member: 22323"] It breaks my heart that children are no longer taught cursive writing in school. I was the last third grade teacher to teach guided cursive writing in my county. Now adults have to print their name. The children came to third grade eager to learn "real writing," as they called it. By October most third graders could write everything in cursive. I required it. When they left my class and went to fourth grade,all but one teacher made them stop cursive and go back to printing. I do not understand a lot that is happening. Children who did beautiful cursive were heartbroken when they came back to tell me. It used to be a GA state standard that all third graders write legibly in cursive by the end of year. Now it is becoming a lost art. Like I said it died in my county when I stopped teaching. I dearly loved to teach it. A few weeks ago, a student going into seventh grade asked me to reach him how to write his name in cursive. Our school systems continue to teach less and less. I wonder how students will make it when they get out in the real world. They can't read, depend on calculators and computers for everything. I do not have an answer. [/QUOTE]
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