I am a retired elementary principal (22 years) and teacher (9 years). I taught third grade for six of the nine years I was in the classroom. For the last eight years I've been teacher Early Childhood Education classes at the local Community College. I still use cursive when I write ( must be all those years w/ third graders). I grade my college student's papers using cursive.....last semester a student brought her paper tome after class and said...."I can't read your comments". Sad.

I teach high school, and I'm always amazed at how many every year tell me that they can't read cursive. My college made all of use secondary ed majors take a handwriting class, and that's what I use when I deal with students, so it's not like it's all that different from what they were taught. They just can't read cursive.

Never knew learning fine motor skills helps speech & language issues...

Even holding a pencil correctly.. and seeing the children succeed at a task.. great..

It's a shame we don't pay attention to child development like we used to. Nowadays we just focus on rigor and ignore development and reasonable expectations.

Maybe approaching it as a fine art rather than a standard means of communication? People who rarely use handwriting to communicate often take calligraphy for fun.

I will continue to teach at least that much cursive.

2. Where's the rigor?

3. It's not high tech. Keyboards are not labeled in cursive.

4. There's no cursive standards in the Common Core.

5. You can't major in cursive in college.

6. Did I mention it isn't tested?

7. Add your own reason.