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California signs cursive writing into law
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- ithkuil 3y agoMy son in Italy is in second trade and reads and writes fluently cursive and printed text. Perhaps the trick is that Italian doesn't have such a fucked up spelling so that kids don't have to waste so much time wrapping their heads around what's this "writing" stuff all about.
- QuadrupleA 3y agoKind of a waste - cursive seems way harder to read (to me anyway), and studies show it isn't any faster to write. Sorta like teaching and encouraging Pig Latin.
- justanotherbody 3y agoCertainly my cursive is harder to read. Growing up in US public schools cursive was mandatory in ~5th grade in my district. Then shortly after (6th grade? 7th?) it became optional and the vast majority of my peers quit writing it I persisted because I actually preferred it, only to be actively encouraged by teachers collecting longer written assignments to write _normally_ on account of my cursive being harder to read It didn't end up mattering - computers and printed assignments were rapidly becoming the norm. I always thought teaching cursive was a strange choice It may be worth noting that the legibility of my penmanship is generally poor. I wonder if perhaps emphasizing legibility has similar positive effects on developing brains...