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> We're never going back to a world where cursive is in widespread use. The tricky thing here is while we're transitioning away from some of these things, they

• ChadNauseam 4y ago
  I respect that individual parents would want their schools to teach those things, so that their children will seem high-status. But as a school system, it makes no sense to teach things that only serve as status markers, because if you teach everyone the status marker, it won’t carry any information and people will switch to something else.
  • mlyle 4y ago
    > I respect that individual parents would want their schools to teach those things, so that their children will seem high-status. Yup. So the main places that are still teaching cursive: * Wealthier public schools (to keep upper class parents happy, even if it doesn't tie to a state requirement). * Private schools (I teach at one of these). * Various "traditionalist" / "conservative" states.
    • ncpa-cpl 4y ago
      > Yup. So the main places that are still teaching cursive: While cursive is still teached at schools where I live,print letters are the ones used the most I guess there is be a difference between the way public schools and private schools teach handwriting. I can usually figure at by looking at someone’s handwriting whether they went to private or public school.